The Accounts Officer is responsible for managing accounting and financial control systems for the USAID WA BiCC office and for ensuring that adequate and appropriate internal control are in place to meet generally recognised accounting standards. In addition, the Accountant will manage all bookkeeping, bank accounts and cash flow to ensure sufficient funds are availiable for effective and efficient implementation. Specific areas of responsibility include cash flow management, financial report preparation, review and submission to the Finance Manager the Chief of Party and Tetra Tech ARD Home office.<\/p>\n
Job Description<\/strong><\/p>\n Job Title:\u00a0Accounts Officer<\/strong><\/p>\n Main Responsibilities and Tasks<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 Responsible for processing all types of financial transactions including Data Entry, payments & banking, using accounting package and assisting the Finance, Grants & Operations Manager in all areas of financial accounting and financial control Qualification Required & Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 University degree in accounting, audit, finance or similar field is (relevant experience and another university degree may substite for the degrees mentioned) Skills:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 Proficient\/Excellent in QuickBooks software. Excellent interpersonal skills, including patience, diplomacy, willingness to listen and respect for colleagues. Languages:<\/strong>\u00a0Fluent in English and professional proficiency in French will be an added advantage<\/p>\n Location:<\/strong>\u00a0Accra<\/p>\n How to Apply<\/strong><\/p>\n Please include a cover letter, your current CV in reverse chronological format, a list of 3 professional references and type “Accounts Officer” in the subject of the email. Send to:wabiccrecruit@gmail.com<\/strong><\/p>\n Closing Date:<\/strong>\u00a012 April, 2018<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Accounts Officer is responsible for managing accounting and financial control systems for the USAID WA BiCC office and for ensuring that adequate and appropriate internal control are in place…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6721,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nO32-7LG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6721"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022 Assisting in the closing of monthly accounts and preparing financial statements for submission to the home office.
\n\u2022 Reconciling bank statements for all funds in foreign and local currencies
\n\u2022 Providing guidance and training to colleagues as required
\n\u2022 Keeping up-to-date on documents\/reports\/guidelines\/audit files in an appropriate manner
\n\u2022 Maintain and update accounting and financial control systems in accordance with U.S government regulations (expenses are reasonable, allowable and allocate) Tetra Tech ARD policy transactions are conducted, processed and recorded as stiputed by the system
\n\u2022 Ensure that transactions are appropriately recorded in QuickBooks and ensure Tetra Tech ARD accounting and procurement standards, procedures and policies and followed and implemented
\n\u2022 Assist in the development develop a plan to monitor all project-related funds, by tracking expenses against budget line items. Facilitate and manage audits that financial reviews
\n\u2022 Other accounting, financial management and administrative tasks consistent with the overall scope of this position assigned from time to time by the Chief of Party or Finance, Grantd & Operations Manager.
\n\u2022 Support the Administrative team to manage cash disbursements and the Petty Cash imprest
\n\u2022 Manages VAT tax exemption process, prepares monthly reports for USAID
\n\u2022 Process confidential and statutory payments of PAYE income tax, social security contributions, withholding taxes and the collection of Tax credit certificates
\n\u2022 Performing other duties assigned by Finance Manager or Finance Specialist<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Minimum of 2 years experience in an equivalent position
\n\u2022 Experience working on a USAID-funded program or in a similar position for an international NGO is required. Knowledge of OMB circular A-122 is desired
\n\u2022 Experience with QuickBooks accounting software is required
\n\u2022 Must have the ability to work effectively in fast-paced, stressful environment
\n\u2022 In addition, must have be flexible, willing to perform other duties and work irregular hours<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Must be capable of working both individually and a part of a team
\n\u2022 Must also be able to create a supportive working relationship among all project teams<\/p>\n