Accountant – Oxfam عودة إلى الفرص

Oxfam’s vision is a just world without poverty: a world in which people can influence decisions that affect their lives, enjoy their rights, and assume their responsibilities as full citizens of a world in which all human beings are valued and treated equally.

Type of contract: Full time; 40hrs/week

Annual Salary and benefits: Local contract; according to Oxfam salary scale and HR policy ande conditions in Tunisia

Starting date: Soonest possible

Reporting to: Finance Manager

Staff reporting to this position: n/a

Team purpose

To oversee and efficiently execute the accounting/bookkeeping tasks, policies, and procedures in compliance with Oxfam, donors and national legal standards / obligations and to ensure high-quality related support, services and documentation.

Job Purpose – Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Manage and process financial data entry in the Pastel accounting software (and others if needed) and produce the country office monthly financial and annual reports.
• Maintain financial records through filing, retrieval, retention, storage, compilation, coding, updating and purging in Pastel.
• Monitor on a regular basis all the payable and receivable accounts details and reconcile them appropriately.
• Produce management accounts from pastel and inform the CD and Finance Manager when spending is not according to the (financial) planning.
• Adopt and implement an audit-ready filing system of the financial records, both electronically and in hard copy and proactively develop any required memo justifying any deviation or missing documentation.
• Ensure good record keeping of all contracts concluded by the country office.
• Execute all CO payments related to services, suppliers, and partners.
• Manage and administer all CO data on payments and receipts for all running costs, keeping records of all financial transactions.
• Ensure compliance with the Tunisian laws and regulations, especially the tax registration and labor laws in all contracts and leases.
• Properly monitor the accrual and payment of taxes and contributions to the government and other contractors and ensure their payment on a timely manner.
• Review and assist the CO staff in the reconciliation of their travel advances and other expenses.
• Maintain contact with the Bank(s) and Oxfam different relevant departments and teams regarding financial transactions. Calculate currency conversions, record cash and bank movements and prepare bank reconciliations.
• Support the Finance Manager in the development of the CO budget.
• Support the Finance Manager and ID&FC, when and if needed, in relevant fundraising activities, and assist in the development of donor proposals, budget submissions and other necessary activities to secure funding for program objectives.
• Provide the ‘Program Finance Officers’ with monthly reports on the expenditure status of their projects.
• Together with the Finance Manager, act as key contact for both internal and external audits.
• Participate in the preparation of the monthly payroll in coordination with the Finance Manager.
• When needed, assist the ‘Finance Officers’ in the preparation of donor reports, under the direction of the FM.
• Perform any other relevant duties at the request of the Finance Manager and/or CD.

This job description may be modified in accordance with the activities orthe evolution of operational needs.