Finance Assistant

ABOUT Relief International:

Relief International (RI) is a leading non-profit organization working in 16 countries to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises and chronic poverty.

Relief International combines humanitarian and development approaches to provide immediate services while laying the groundwork for long-term impact. Our signature approach — which we call the RI Way—emphasizes local participation, an integration of services, strategic partnerships and a focus on civic skills. In this way, we empower communities to find, design and implement the solutions that work best for them.

RI includes the four corporate members of the RI Alliance: RI-US, RI-UK, MRCA/RI-France and RI-Europe. Under our alliance agreement, we operate as a single, shared management structure.

Position Summary:

Under the direct supervision of the Finance Coordinator, the primary responsibility of the Finance Assistant is to ensure the recording of expenses on daily basis, responsible for petty cash, and ensure proper liquidation of advances and prepare end of month report.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:

• Responsible for delivering salary payments to national staff and suppliers.
• Ensure cashbooks are maintained and all the transactions are recorded daily.
• Ensure that all the vouchers and reports, reconciliations, cash count forms, payroll, severance, etc. documents are approved and signed properly.
• Scan finance documents on daily basis and ensure all scanned documents are named appropriately and archived on the Box for easy access and keep a backup for all scans against any accidental loss upload on the Box.
• Checking and verifying all the supporting documents and ensuring it is comply with RI procurement and financial procedure and policies.
• Maintain advances tracker and liquidation of advances on time.
• Ensure efficient cash management and comply with RI cash management policies
• Monitoring the advances and ensuring that all the outstanding advances are settled within the same month
• Ensure the payment Tracker is up-to-date.
• Comply with supporting documents with the procurement map.
• Posting all the expenses (payment vouchers, receipt vouchers, and other journal vouchers) to Net Suite System on daily basis.
• Cash and Bank reconciliation monthly.
• Assist the finance coordinator in the End-Month-Closing report.
• Supporting on Annual financial statement to DNGO of KRI.
• Supporting the internal and external audit process and requirements.
• Support and work closely with the finance team and the other departments when needed.
• Performs any other tasks as requested by the Finance coordinator or Finance Manager.

Safeguarding

• Uphold and promote RI’s commitment to ensuring the safeguarding and safety of the vulnerable communities we serve.
• Consistent with RI’s safeguarding and protection policies, ensure all people who come into contact with Relief International are as safe as possible.

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS REQUIREMENTS:

This position will require a demonstrated ability to achieve results in a demanding and fast paced environment.

Compulsory:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field such as Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Engineering, and 1 to 2 years mandatory past experience in INGOs/NGO.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office package, especially Excel and Word
• Strong communication, interpersonal and analytical skills.
• Ability to work under pressure, independently and with limited supervision.
• Ability to work in a dynamic and multi-cultural environment and to multi-task to meet deadlines
• Promotes teamwork, contributes towards building team consensus and acts as a team player.
• Consistently approach work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude.
• Demonstrates ability to identify problems.
• Makes recommendations related to work procedures and implementation of management systems.
• Arabic, Kurdish speaker, very good in English.

Desirable:

• Having experience in working on accounting systems.

RI Values:

We uphold the Humanitarian Principles: humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and operational independence. We affirmatively engage the most vulnerable communities.

We value:

• Inclusiveness
• Transparency and accountability
• Agility and innovation
• Collaboration
• Sustainability