Accountant at Ministry Of Finance And Economic Planning (MINECOFIN) Under Contract :Deadline: Apr 3, 2024

Job responsibilities

Under guidance and supervision of the Finance Program Manager the accountant will be responsible of the following: • Ensure that the financial transactions are properly authorized, recorded, have adequate supporting documentation and can easily be extracted for the purpose of preparing financial statements; • Maintenance of the general ledger and other accounting practices in accordance with International Accounting Standards; • Maintain proper book keeping records in accordance with; statutory and the organization’s policies, chart of accounts, and related accounting standards, principles and practices; • Reconcile different ledgers with the general ledger; • Maintain adequate financial controls are in place to maintain propriety and proper accountability of expenditures; • Maintain a suitable management information system for recording and reporting financial transactions; • Prepare and submit timely and reliable financial reports and any related reports that may be required from time to time by the different Donors and other stakeholders; • Maintain and ensure the safe custody of accounting registers and value documents; • Facilitate the annual financial audits carried out by the external auditors, the Office of the Auditor General as well as any financial reviews carried out by Internal Auditors and Development Partners; • Prepare monthly bank reconciliations and submit them for appropriate approval;

Minimum qualifications

• • Master’s in Finance

    2 Years of relevant experience

• • 2
    Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

    3 Years of relevant experience

• • 3
    Master’s Degree in Accounting

    2 Years of relevant experience

• • 4
    Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

    3 Years of relevant experience

• 5
  Bachelor’s Degree in any other field with accounting professional certification such as ACCA, CPA, CIMA, CPFMA or any other relevant accounting certification

  5 Years of relevant experience

Required competencies and key technical skills

• • 1
    Resource management skills

• • 2
    Analytical skills

• • 3
    Problem solving skills

• • 4
    Decision making skills

• • 5
    Time management skills

• • 6
    Results oriented

• • 7
    Digital literacy skills

• • 8
    Fluency in Kinyarwanda, English or French. Knowledge of all is an added advantage

• • 9
    Experience in implementing external donor funded projects

• • 10
    A good work experience in a business finance department/unit

• • 11
    Demonstrated experience in preparation of financial reports and budget variance analysis

• 12
  Hands on experience with a multi-user accounting package including data capturing and extraction of management information and reports there from

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