JOB VACANCY
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 5th April 2024
DUTY STATION: Kigali, Rwanda
LENGTH OF CONTRACT: Open Ended.
START DATE: As soon as Possible
ANNOUNCEMENT DATE: 21 March 2024
POST TITLE: Partnership Project Accountant-PPA
Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) is an international NGO, founded in Norway as the labour movement’s humanitarian solidarity organisation. NPA’s goal is centered on human worth and equal rights for all and strives globally to promote the values of solidarity, unity, equality, human rights, and democracy.
Norwegian People’s Aid in Rwanda supports civil society organisations and citizens to participate in and impact the formulation and implementation of national and local policymaking, planning and governance. While strengthening their internal management systems including financial, and monitoring systems and their advocacy and research capacities, NPA civil society partners support citizens to raise and express their opinions and interests with decision-makers, to seek accountability and to advocate that local government planning and decision-making is influenced by those citizen concerns. The same partners also support citizens’ access to justice and reporting of corruption. Civil society partners work at the national level too to use research, media engagement and advocacy to influence debates and generate dialogue between citizens, CSOs and decision-makers.
Vacancy
NPA is currently seeking a Partnership Project Accountant-PPA. The Partnership Project Accountant-PPA is required to support the finance function throughout NPA’s Rwanda Programme, take a lead in partner capacity building, partners’ financial management improvement and effective budget execution as per agreed partner’s contracts and by donor requirements and agreement. The PPA reports to the Finance Manager (FM) and works closely with the Programme Manager and other colleagues.
This position will also provide direct support to NPA’s partners to produce quality financial reports and unqualified reports (clean reports) during annual audits. H/she will establish strong coordination with the programme team, other colleagues, and partner organizations to bring in and promote well-coordinated approaches.
All responsibilities and reporting must be carried out in accordance with the strategic objectives of NPA as per the organization’s strategic priorities, Regulation for Delegation of Authorization, other relevant procedures, and guidelines such as partnership policy.
The position is based in Kigali with travel to other areas as required.
Job Description for Partnership Project Accountant-PPA
Summary of the Position:
- Review of partner’s budgets by ensuring that they are realistic with accurate unit costs together with appropriate budget notes/remarks on an annual basis.
- Ensure that all partners receive funds for implementation on time and according to the approved contracts, approved budgets in line with submitted realistic forecasts; and post the partners’ advances into Agresso.
- Review partner’s monthly financial reports by ensuring that report correct templates are used accordingly and adhered to the approved budgets; review their monthly bank reconciliation as well as the status of their liquidity to be eligible for the next disbursement.
- Conduct planned and regular joint monitoring visits to partners and submit a report to FM showing potential risk and draw a follow-up action plan to identify gaps for capacity development.
- PPA must ensure that all partners’ expenses are reviewed by their internal controls and communicate any compliance matters to the Finance Manager (FM) for any action plan for support.
- Ensure that all partners have all necessary internal policies in place such as finance, procurement, HR etc. and advise them regarding compliance issues during PFAT and monitoring visits.
- Ensure that all partner’s expenditures are booked/posted every quarter according to the approved financial reports as well as approved budgets.
- Act as a focal point for audit and ensure partner audits are conducted promptly, take appropriate action by sharing any findings with partners and follow up on a designed action plan from each partner for implementation.
- Prepare partner’s monthly budget vs actuals and share with FM a detailed analysis of their spending status.
More details are available in the full job description.
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Interested persons should submit an application letter detailing why they are interested in the position and an updated CV including the contact telephone number, education qualifications and contact details of three professional references to:
The Country Director
Norwegian Peoples Aid (NPA) Rwanda
By email to nparwanda@npaid.org or P.O. Box 2966, Rwanda Kigali
NB: We regret to inform you that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
