Finance Assistant - Maternity Cover

The main role and responsibility of this position is to provide support to finance office in execution of Kenya program. The Finance assistant will be responsible for supporting the financial and administrative management of grants to counties.

Responsibilities:

• Provide effective support to Kenya country finance team in overseeing budget execution and monitoring in line with NI policies and procedures.
• Raising operational payment requestsProcessing of travel authorization forms for NI Kenya staff
• Follow up on staff to submit expense reports and review liquidation of travel advanceOn a weekly basis, prepare bank book for operation payments
• Manage Kenya Office petty cash and prepare petty cash report at the end of month
• Loading operational payments on bank platform and processing of participant refunds for various program activity meetings using bank Mpesa Platform
• Send out requests for quotations for both corporate and program procurement using designated email boxes and prepare bids analysis
• Effective cash flow management
• Other relevant duties as assigned from time to time

About You;

You have;

• Minimum: Bachelor’s degree in Commerce or equivalent with at least three to five years of working experience in finance, preferably in the development sector;
• CPA II or equivalent professional qualification preferred
• Interpersonal and people management skills
• Competent IT skills, i.e. Word, Excel advanced, and Outlook, knowledge of NetSuite will be an advantage
• Attention to detail
• Ability to work under minimal supervision
• Ability to work under pressure
• Multi-tasking ability with an analytical and methodical approach.
• High level of integrity, maturity and professionalism