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• Responsible for STF NAVISION financial system
  package trouble shooting, updating and maintenance of the accounts structures.
• Ensure that the NAVISION ledgers for all
  projects are maintained up to date and that transactions are posted on
  daily basis and are reconciled to correctness in projects, donors,
  activities, and expenditure codes in order to facilitate efficient and timely reporting to management and
  donors.
• Keenly review and conduct monthly
  reconciliations of debtors, creditors, bank accounts, cash accounts to
  identify material differences and discrepancies in the accounts and
  prepare adjusting journals
  to make the relevant corrections.
• Prepare and submit monthly financial reports
  (MFR) and year end financial statements including supplementary
  specifications to meet specific deadlines and donor requirements, prepare
  quarterly terminal grants and effort reports.
• Supervise the preparation of the payroll ensuring that staff
  salaries and related statutory deductions are timely made and paid in
  addition to ensuring that all cash and cheque payments for goods and
  services rendered to STF are paid as they become due as per the provision
  of the finance manual.
• Maintain a system to track financial
  commitments and outstanding contract amounts by staff and third parties
  transacting with STF and ensure that they are diligently executed when
  due.
• Strengthen inter-departmental and Sectoral
  linkages between finance
  and other STF departments and sections, and contribute to other STF
  collaborative work.
• Conduct support visits to field offices to
  reconcile accounting records and provide relevant technical support at
  such intervals as may be required.

• The
  ideal candidate for the Straight Talk Foundation (STF) National Senior
  Finance Officer job placement must hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce,
  Accounting or Business Administration from a recognised university.
  Possession of a professional qualification such as ACCA and CPA will be an
  added advantage.
• Five
  years of progressively responsible and professional accounting experience,
  preferably in a non-governmental organisation (NGO).
• Extensive
  knowledge of principles and practices of general, fund, and NGO accounting
  including financial statement preparation and methods of financial control
  and reporting; principles and practices of cost and fixed asset accounting;
  internal control and audit principles and practices.
• Knowledge
  of budgeting; laws and ordinances relating to the financial administration
  of donor funded agencies; practices and methods of donor funded agency
  financing.
• Previous
  experience in use of accounting packages especially NAVISION.
• Ability
  to evaluate financial programs and make sound recommendations for
  improvement.
• Ability
  to understand, interpret, explain and apply state laws regulating
  financial accounting, reporting and record keeping.
• Highly
  developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing,
  negotiation and coaching.
• Computer
  literacy and excellent documentation skills are a must.

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