Senior Payroll Specialist
Kroll
Finance and Administrative Officer
Street Child
full-time
Posted on:
Origin: • 🇨🇲 Cameroon
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Ensure adherence to Street Child’s internal control and financial procedures and accurate recording of financial transactions.
- Maintain inventory of office equipment and fixed assets and ensure compliance with finance and procurement policies and government tax requirements.
- Record transactions daily in AQILLA, perform control checks, reconciliations, and timely financial reporting to the country team.
- Verify invoices and supporting documents for payments, ensure policy compliance, record bank transactions, and ensure payments reach beneficiaries.
- Manage advances to staff and partners, perform cash counts, and ensure partner books comply with donor requirements.
- Provide accounting and financial assistance to country team, review partner expenses and payment vouchers, support project cash flow and donor disbursements.
- Maintain financial practices and controls, ensure timely vendor payments, monitor coding of expenditures and review sub-recipient financial reports.
- Support prevention and investigation of fraud, assist during internal and external audits, implement audit recommendations and track corrective actions.
- Lead capacity building for partners on financial management and internal controls; coordinate sub-recipient assessments and monitoring visits.
- Maintain employee register, prepare monthly payroll including taxes and statutory obligations, and perform other HR-related functions.
Requirements
- A degree in Finance, Accounting, Banking and Finance or other related field of study
- Minimum 3 years of experience directly supporting/managing Finance, HR and administration within an INGO preferably in Cameroon.
- Solid knowledge of accounting and financial reporting as well as the taxation laws of Cameroon
- Experience in using relevant accounting system, solid knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
- Excellent knowledge of the Cameroon working environment
- Working knowledge and understanding of relevant donor funded project, rules and regulations.
- Excellent analytical, oral and written communication skills in English and French
- Highly organized with ability to prioritize and multi-task while working as part of a team.
- Possess strong accuracy, attention to detail and ability to follow through
- Ability to maintain confidentiality, exercise discretion and sound judgment.
- Willingness to travel.
