Stichting Red een Kind (Help a Child Foundation) is looking for a
Finance Administrator (Nairobi, Kenya)
Organisation
Help a Child (HaC) is a Christian international NGO specialized in community development with its headquarters in the Netherlands and operating in Kenya for more than 30 years. Founded in 1968, HaC’s mission is to improve the wellbeing of children through supportive communities. Main sources of income are child & family sponsorship, foundations and institutional donors. Main activities are early childhood development and education, vocational training, work and income, with special attention for the position of girls and women, and child’s rights. HaC’s strategy is to empower marginalized children, youth, parents and the broader community, and other stakeholders to grow out of poverty. This is also reflected in the anticipated changes:
A. Children are able to overcome barriers to participate successfully in life;
B. Parents are able to take care of themselves and their children;
C. Youth are self-reliant and ready for work;
D. Communities are able to link to and make use of economic opportunities and services and gradually take full ownership of their own development.
For more information, please visit https://www.helpachild.org
Help a Child has several branches in Eastern Africa. For our branch in Kenya (HACA) we are looking for a Finance Administrator.
Purpose of the Job
To ensure a high standard of financial management & control, accounting and financial reporting to Help a Child International, donors and other stakeholders and promote cost effectiveness in project activity implementation.
- Financial Management: Maintain effective financial and accounting policies, procedures and systems for the HACA office;
- Office Management: Provide essential support to the organisation to attain maximum impact of the office through ensuring cost effectiveness utilization of resources (financial and otherwise) and safe custody of HACA assets;
- Budget & Expenditure Monitoring: Strict monitoring of the organisation’s expenditure against the budgets and providing frequent feedback to the manager on budget matters;
- Cash flow & Bank reconciliation Management;
- Processing of invoices and payments;
- Payroll and Asset management;
- (Support in) financial management of development projects.
Qualifications and Experience
- A university degree in finance related field or Accountancy professional qualification i.e. completed ACCA or CPA (K);
- Minimum of 5 to 7 years working experience in accounts, with thorough knowledge of book keeping;
- Experience in donor/ grants compliance;
- Ability to instruct and monitor financial staff;
- Excellent financial and analytical skills;
- Excellent verbal & written communication & ability to present information and concepts clearly, both verbally & on paper;
- Ability to travel & work in different areas and sometime difficult environment;
- Ability to work with people from different cultural & educational backgrounds;
- Recommends and implements improvements;
- Influences ways of working;
- Responsible, flexible and adaptable;
- Good team player and team builder;
- Ability to adhere to HaC’s Core Christian values.
HOW TO APPLY:
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates are kindly invited to send a cover letter and resume before September 27th, 2016 to vacancies@hacafrica.org.
In your cover letter please reflect on your motivation for wanting to become part of the HaC organization. For more information please contact Mrs. Linda Ndethiu, stationed in Kenya at info@hacafrica.org.
