Home Vacancies, August 2025 Accountant

Accountant

Location: Ethiopia

Organization: African Parks

Deadline: 7 April 2025

Job Description

Job Reference Number: AP-231
Department: Finance
Industry: Accounts
Job Type: Contract
Positions Available: 1
Salary: Market Related

Gambella National Park was established as a protected area in 1973 and is 4,575 km² in size. It forms the northern anchor of a much larger contiguous system, with a network of protected areas in southern Ethiopia and neighboring South Sudan. The park hosts several wildlife species including an important population of Nile Lechwe, Ethiopia’s largest population of elephant, healthy lion populations
Job Description

The Accountant oversees all financial activities, ensuring accurate and timely reporting and compliance with international standards. Key duties include managing accounting processes, budgets, cash flow, assets, payroll, and audits. This role provides financial guidance, supports staff training, and helps implement financial systems. Strong leadership and financial expertise are essential.

MAIN ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Accounting and Reporting

  • Ensure that the Park adheres to the best practices of financial management stipulated in AP’s SOPs.
  • Timely booking of purchase invoices, bank and petty cash transactions in the accounting ERP (Navision).
  • Ensure that the field finance staff are supported with petty cash management and other technical aspects of their work.
  • Facilitate payment and reconciliation of taxes.
  • Ensure the timely reconciliation of funds accounts and addressing reconciling issues in real-time.
  • Timely reconciliation of cash in transit accounts.
  • Review the petty cash books from the parks before booking in the ERP and ensures emergent issues i.e supporting documents are addressed and in place.
  • Updating monthly foreign exchange rate in the accounting ERP.
  • Ensure cash counts are correct and differences investigated and addressed.
  • Reviews operations advance and ensure their timely settlement.
  • Ensure field staff salaries are reconciled before dispatch.
  • Staff advance reconciliation and clearance.
  • Creation of vendor accounts in the accounting ERP according to the naming protocol.

Support with updating timesheets for field support for review, approval and archiving.

Job Requirements
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting/Finance/Commerce/Business or related qualification.
  • At least 3 years of practical work experience in finance and accounting with the use of accounting ERPs. Knowledge of Navision is of an added advantage
  • Strong understanding of accounting, Finance and management principles;
  • Exceptional Math skills;
  • Exceptional communication skills delivered both verbally and in writing;
  • Skills in managing, organizing, planning and implementing assigned tasks under pressure of frequent and tight schedules;
  • Ability to gather and analyze data and to work with figures;
  • Strong ability to apply good judgment and decision-making skills in difficult and complex working environments.

 

HOW TO APPLY

To apply, please email your CV and cover letter to: ethiopiarecruitment@africanparks.org  by Monday,  7th April 2025.

Please mention the position name in the subject line of the email.

In case you do not hear from us within two weeks after the closing date, this means that your application was not successful.

We thank you for your interest in working for African Parks.