The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. We work in crises across more than 31 countries, providing emergencies and long-term assistance to millions of people every year. We stand up for people forced to flee, advocating their rights. NORCAP, our global provider of expertise, helps improve international and local ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from crises. NRC also runs the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva, a global leader in reporting on and advocating for people displaced within their own country.

Employment with NRC may lead to employment in or deployment to Regions, Countries, Areas or Offices that may be host to considerable health, safety and security risks. NRC takes this very seriously and we have procedures in place to reduce known risks but will never be able to take away all risks.

NRC is an equal opportunities employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality, and physical ability.

Job Overview: 

The Finance Assistants is responsible for cash management, booking the transactions in cash and bank boxes, maintain hard and soft financial files, payments, tax deposit forms.

Generic Responsibilities:

• Adhere to NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines
• Assist with the implementation of the support function portfolio according to plan of action
• Prepare and develop status reports as required by management
• Ensure proper filing of documents
• Promote and share ideas for improvement of the support function.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Maintain computerised financial records of transactions for all projects
• Maintain hard and soft filing system 
• Responsible for updating Post backs
• Prepare monthly bank reconciliation
• Prepare monthly financial report to Kabul SO
• Maintain and follow supplier, landlord and payroll tax clearing forms
• Responsible for cash transfers
• Follow up transfer from SO 
• Responsible for cash management
• Prepare monthly cash forecast and cash request
• Responsible to track suppliers payments
• Responsible to prepare monthly tax vouchers and bank dispatch
• Responsible to prepare monthly AIB Payroll
• Communicate with Hawaladar for payments
• Preparing daily cash count
• Preparing monthly Cheque record sheet.
• Responsible for Water and electricity payments
• Attend to distribution payments at area
• Responsible for verification of payment list.
• Responsible to follow with my money and all CCs for disbursement reports and finger print of beneficiaries.
• Prepare voucher for bank charges, electricity, water and etc.
• Preparing monthly checklist
• Responsible for opening new bank account for new staff.
• Ensure the inclusion of cash-based interventions and marked based programmes in country and area-based strategies and their implementation across and within NRC’s core competencies
• Any other related duties as assigned by his/her line manager.

Generic professional competencies:

• Active problem solving with a focus on collegial working and supportive staff to own solutions.
  Cultural sensitivity and ability to work with a diverse team.
• Personal commitment and drive for timely and high-quality results
• Strategic perspective and keen to take ownership of finance functions, challenges, and solutions of Herat Office.
• Proactive, able to multi-task and flexible to changing priorities.
• Knowledge of cash-based interventions and market based programmes

Context/Specific skills, knowledge and experience:

• 3-year experience in finance, accounting or equivalent section, preferably with experience in INGOs, UN, or donors outside of Afghanistan.
• Familiarity with project cycle financial management and donor reporting.
• Comfortable and willing to work in a dynamic security context.
• Experience designing and implementing financial best practice.
• Demonstrated experience of capacity building of staff through coaching, training and mentoring.
• Dynamic and motivated with a positive and collegial attitude to joint problem solving.
• Strong focus on timely and quality outputs.
• Able to work under pressure, to tight deadlines, and with competing priorities.

Education: 

Holding valid university degree in finance/accounting, business administration, Economics or equivalent degree. 

Personal Qualities:

• Planning and delivering results
• Communicating with impact and respect
•  Handling insecure environment
•  Empowering and building trust

Language:

• Dari
• English
• Pashto

We offer:

• Monthly Salary based on NRC Afghanistan Salary Scale.
• NRC has medical coverage for staff plus 4 dependents. 
• Leave and Holidays accordingly Afghanistan Labour Law.
• Top up Credit card on monthly basis

For applying and more information, please copy below link and paste in the web address.

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Note: All applicants are supposed to create and properly fill online CV profile in the system, example (personal, education, experience background etc..) and only attaching CV won’t be enough.