The HALO Trust is the world’s largest humanitarian mine clearance organisation. We save lives and restore communities threatened by landmines and other weapons of war, such as cluster bombs, stockpiles of small arms and improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Born out of a desire to help the people of Afghanistan in 1988, we now have over 9,500 staff in 26 countries and territories, working to get vulnerable communities back on their feet following conflict. Millions of families have been able to return to their homes safely thanks to this work, but there is still much to do.

There are many challenges associated with delivering humanitarian work but we are passionate in our commitment to create safe, secure communities but we do not shy away from working in countries where there are gaps in international support for clear humanitarian needs. As an advocate for the ‘forgotten’ in the world, we urgently wish to reach more countries where our skills and experience can accelerate recovery and provide the essential groundwork to help address the root cause of the current refugee crisis.

Demining remains our core purpose but in order to deal with the broader debris of war, we are strengthening our work in weapons and ammunition management. We help governments to manage stockpiles of weapons and dispose of weapons and ammunition. 

The HALO Trust is the world’s largest humanitarian mine clearance organisation. We save lives and restore communities threatened by landmines and other weapons of war, such as cluster bombs, stockpiles of small arms and improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Born out of a desire to help the people of Afghanistan in 1988, we now have over 6,000 staff in 19 countries and territories, working to get vulnerable communities back on their feet following conflict. Millions of families have been able to return to their homes safely thanks to this work, but there is still much to do.

There are many challenges associated with delivering humanitarian work but we are passionate in our commitment to create safe, secure communities but we do not shy away from working in countries where there are gaps in international support for clear humanitarian needs. As an advocate for the ‘forgotten’ in the world, we urgently wish to reach more countries where our skills and experience can accelerate recovery and provide the essential groundwork to help address the root cause of the current refugee crisis.

Demining remains our core purpose but in order to deal with the broader debris of war, we are strengthening our work in weapons and ammunition management. We help governments to manage stockpiles of weapons and dispose of weapons and ammunition. 

The HALO Trust Afghanistan team is seeking a qualified and highly motivated Finance Technicians to support the Finance Team at Unit level under the lead of the Head of Finance.

The Finance Technician plays a crucial role in managing financial accounting and financial management activities within the unit office. The incumbent is tasked with maintaining financial records in compliance with organization’s policies and regulations.

Essential skills & experience required for this role

• An implementer of policies, procedures and projects
• Hands on experience with accounting software such as NetSuite
• A hands-on practical person who will work at every level to get the job done
• Attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills
• Excel skills and solid working knowledge of NetSuite or other similar ERP system

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for financial management of the Unit.
• Monitor budgets and spend out tools of various donor contract for the unit.
• As the custodian of the safe and cash, responsible for issuing Open vouchers (Advances) upon approval of request forms by the Unit Commander or other authorized HQ staff, reconcile the advances, record all open vouchers in both the daily cashbook and electronic cashbook.
• Responsible for finance related communication within the unit.
• Recoding all the expenditures/Payment Vouchers into financial system (NetSuite)
• Ensure expenditures are supported by complete and adequate supporting documents and cover sheet.
• Ensure NetSuite transactions are supported by payment vouchers uploaded online in the system.
• Daily NetSuite reconciliation for cash and bank.
• overseeing liquidity (cash balance) management of Unit, creating monthly cash projections for the unit, and submitting reports to the Kabul Finance department.
• Maintain up to date and easy to access filing system for vouchers and its supporting documents.
• Submit the weekly financial report (Country PV List, Bank statements, Cash book, Cash and bank reconciliation) and other necessary documents to Kabul finance team by the second day of the following week.
• Coordinate with the Bank branches in the unit.
• Provide cashiering services in the unit
• Any other task given by Accounts Officer, Head of Finance and Office manager.

Please send your CV and Cover letter to:  recruitment@haloafg.org

You are requested to copy and paste below as your subject of application email:

HT-117-2024 Finance Technician

Note: Applications without mentioning the Position Title & Vacancy Number in the subject line of the email will NOT be considered.

The HALO Trust has got strong stand on protection of beneficiaries.

"The Finance Technician" will have to create and maintain an environment which prevents sexual exploitation and abuse and promotes the implementation of the code of conduct."

The HALO Trust promotes and upholds the principles of equal opportunities and its policies. HALO has a zero-tolerance approach to any harm to, or exploitation of a vulnerable by any of our staff, representatives, or partners. Recruitment to all jobs in HALO includes collection of relevant references. Safeguarding our beneficiaries is our top priority in everything we do.