Accountant-CCDHS

Internal /External Vacancy Announcement

The Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) wants to recruit employees in the following vacant position the details of which are mentioned below.

About the Ethiopian Red Cross Society

The Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) was established in 1935 and is one of the oldest and largest humanitarian organizations in Ethiopia. ERCS provides services to communities affected by natural and manmade disasters through the provision of emergency responses, ambulance and first aid, family reunification, essential drugs, water and sanitation, and other humanitarian services. ERCS also runs disaster risk reduction programs with the aim of creating resilience households and communities. Currently the ERCS has a structure consisting of 15 Regional Offices, Zonal Branches and District /Woreda Branches, Woreda Red Cross Committee and Kebele Red Cross committees.

ERCS also runs disaster risk reduction programs relating to food security, climate change adaptation, livelihood diversification, and institutional capacity building interventions, with the aim of creating resilience households and communities. ERCS works in partnership with the Ethiopian Government, International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC), International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), partnering National Societies, members, volunteers and the communities we serve.

Details of the vacant position

• Job Title: Accountant-CCDHS
• Work Unit: Admin and Finance task team
• Reports to: Manager, Admin & Finance
• Terms of employment: Contract
• Place of Work: ERCS – CCDHS
• Salary: as per the organization scale

Job Summary

Under the supervision of the Admin & Finance manager, the Accountant expedites and facilitates the preparation of annual budget for income and expenditure and annual forecast of cash flow for Center; compiles budget implementation data, conducts variance analysis and produces evaluation reports with appropriate recommended courses of action; verifies that supporting documents and vouchers are duly approved by authorized personnel of the Center before payment and registration; performs journalizing, posting, cross-referencing, adjusting entries, correcting entries, closing entries, determining account balances, testing accounting activities for accuracy; reconciles bank statements against records of the Center; reviews, analyses and summarizes petty cash recording and data; prepares schedule of subsidiary ledger accounts and chart of general ledger accounts; carries out inventory control activities of the Center and participates in stocktaking, prepares interim and regular financial reports.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

• Participates and assists in formulating internal control policies and procedures for administration and finance matters of the Center;
• Follows up timely deposits and withdrawal of pension fund;
• Follows up budget requisition, consolidation, endorsement and implementation matters of the Center are in accordance with pre-established regulatory framework;
• Compiles budget implementation data, conducts variance analysis and produces evaluation reports with appropriate recommended courses of action;
• Codifies and registers payments and receivables or revenues in the respective journals;
• Verifies that supporting documents and vouchers are duly approved by authorized personnel of the Center before payment and registration; performs journalizing;
• Gathers the necessary information to calculate unit cost and prepare journal voucher;
• Prepares journal vouchers from register books;
• Makes reference and cross-reference of all source documents to the ledger account codes;
• Reviews, analyses and summarizes petty cash recording and data;
• Assists external auditors in providing the necessary documents for audit review;
• Operates a computer, calculator and other common facilitating office machines used for encoding, computing and analyzing financial transactions and producing financial reports;
• Regularly tests account balances for overstatement, understatement, transposing, omission and other possible clerical errors to keep the book of accounts reliable and updated;
• Carries out inventory control activities of the Center and participates in stocktaking;
• Executes audit review feedbacks given on the books of accounts and accounting practices of the Center;
• Prepares timely sales Invoice for customers:

Job Specification

Educational Requirement: Second/First degree in Accounting/ Accounting & Finance/ Finance,

Trainings and Skills: training in accounting software application

Work Experience: 4/6 years related work experience