وظيفة Junior Accounting Specialist

1. Required qualifications, competences and experience

Qualification

• University degree (preferably in Business/Accounting/Finance or similar) 

   

   

Professional experience

• At least 3 years’ professional experience in a comparable position
• Administration and accountancy work experience in development cooperation and similar organization 

Other knowledge, additional competences

• Good working knowledge of ITC technologies and related software (e.g., Outlook, internet applications) etc. and computer applications (e.g., MS Office, Excel, Power Point; knowledge of SAP is a plus).
• Gender sensitivity expected.
• Proactive approach to problem-solving with attention to details and ability to multi- task.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Meet deadlines in a fast-paced quickly changing environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English language.
• Willingness to upskill as required by the tasks to be performed – corresponding measures are agreed with management.

1. Responsibilities

The Junior Accounting Specialist will be responsible for the following:

• Check vouchers, scan, and upload on Winpaccs system.
• Handle the bookkeeping journals.
• Support in quality assurance of the monthly errors’ sheets
• Conduct other tasks requested by your line manager.

In this context, the position holder fulfils the following tasks:

1. Tasks

1. Financial services

• Checks the plausibility of vouchers and categorizing of vouchers according to the internal bookkeeping charts of accounts.
• Handles the bookkeeping journals for projects.
• Checks the vouchers and receipts submitted by the projects/programmes for completeness and allocation to cost units and categories and corrects these where necessary.
• Carries out accounting tasks using WINPACCS accounting software and prepares monthly end-of-period accounts and bank reconciliation vouchers.
• Scan accounting vouchers and upload them in WINPACCS Cloud.
• Maintains proper and confidential filing of financial related documents. 

1. Quality Assurance (monthly error sheets)

• Support in preparation of monthly error sheets for project journals and communicates results on time to the projects/programmes managers.
• Monitors the completion of rectification of monthly error sheets and follows up with the related projects managers. 

1. Other duties/additional tasks

• Regularly checks the changes in GIZ Orientation and Regulations Tool (O+R) in relation to  field of work
• Performs other relevant duties and tasks at the request of direct superior
• Fill ZASone (Zeitaufschriebe) on daily bases

The job description can be amended during the contract period

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