4th October 2024
Job Opportunity
Financial Officer
‘’Make a difference to thousands in the land of a thousand hills’’
VisionFund Rwanda (VFR), is Rwanda’s largest microfinance Institution. VFR is committed to the development of Rwanda through providing affordable financial services (savings and loans) to the less privileged throughout its 4 zones in Rwanda.
VFR is the institution where you can develop your expertise working with the best people worldwide in a dynamic, team focused high performance environment. If you are looking for interesting but challenging work where you can make a difference in the world, then VFR has the will to make it so.
VisionFund Rwanda (VFR) has zero tolerance to abuse and sexual exploitation of children and adults beneficiaries. We expect all our employees/affiliates to commit to protecting children and adult beneficiaries from harm and abide by our safeguarding policy.
Financial Officer
Directly reporting to: Risk and Finance Manager.
Major Responsibilities:
- Receive and review all invoices from suppliers and ensure timely payment
- Preparation of payment of suppliers of the company and ensure that financial transactions are accurately recorded in corebanking system;
- Facilitate all staff advances and ensure compliance with the travel advance policy
- Ensures the completeness of supporting documents for all of the recorded transactions in the Head Office’s accounting records;
- Prevent miss allocation of expenses, income or any other misallocation
- Ensures that the accounting books and records of the Head Office are properly filed and stored for efficient retrieval in the future;
- Participate actively in end month closing activities
- Monitor day-to-day payments from VisionFund Rwanda bank accounts to facilitate bank reconciliation every month
- Provides assistance to any examination conducted by National Bank of Rwanda, other regulators, internal and external auditors
- Other duties as may be required by his/her supervisor
- Who will be in charge of coordinating/supporting branches on their petty cash posting/settlement
Special/Personal Abilities
- Determined personality with initiative, perseverance and motivated person
- Capacity and willingness to take responsibility
- Ready to comply and live up to and in accordance with the organization Ideals and Core Values
- Be a good communicator and able to maintain harmony in the team
- Able to lead daily devotion
Qualification and Experience
- Bachelors degree in Accounting
- 2 Years of experience in bank or microfinance is required
How to apply
Should you wish to apply for this position, please go to the following link https://worldvision.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WorldVisionInternational/details/Financial-Officer_JR36407. All applicants must apply using our online application system, CVs received via email or standard post will not be considered.
If the aforementioned position speaks to you, send your updated application via the above mentioned Link by or before 10th October, 2024.
In case you face any challenges in applying, please let us know on: recruitment@vfcrwanda.rw (no applications will be accepted through this email).
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