Sened Organization
Job Title:
Finance Officer
Reporting to:
Finance Manager
Location
GZT
General Description of the Programme:
SENED is an independent, non-governmental, non-profit organization licensed and registered in Türkiye with the number 27-15-175. SENED Organization was established shortly after the Syrian Nakba and in response to the suffering of millions of Syrian refugees in Turkey as well as internally displaced people in Syria, to alleviate suffering, achieving justice, equality, and freedom, strengthening the role of civil society, and supporting and developing the local community. SENED works in the humanitarian work sectors to support, empower, and educate the community through several programs, takes exceptional care of people with disabilities and their families and defends their issues.
SENED Association emphasizes creating safe, accessible, and participation-encouraging living conditions for individuals’ emotional, intellectual, physical, and social development by focusing on people with disabilities. Beyond the medical perspective on disability, it tries to find solutions to the problems faced by disabled people with a holistic perspective by considering the disabled people, their families, and the society they live in, focusing on the conditions they experience. SENED Association aims to create a safe and supportive environment and space by conducting family-oriented activities to help disabled individuals and their families become stronger, discover their potential and stand by with their children. By collecting data on refugee-disabled people and identifying problems and needs, SENED strives to ensure harmony between disabled refugees and local people with a voluntary, professional team and a community-based approach. All activities, education, research, advocacy, etc., are carried out on platforms created by local and disabled refugee people.
Job Purpose
· To prepare and follow up on financial reports for donors (providing notes, archiving, and editing), ensure correct and accurate journal entries (expenses – accruals) and following up on all payments (donors – suppliers) and closing of accounting systems entries.
Key Activities/Tasks/Duties
o Check and review daily expenses and payments.
o Enter daily expenses, payments, account transfers, and FX (Foreign currency) operations.
o Complete entries into the accounting system (Quick Books).
o Enter daily and monthly FX Rates and complete all related activities including preparing, printing, signing, and archiving supporting documents.
o Check and review monthly payroll, time sheets, salary slips and their entries.
o Prepare, print, archive and complete all entries related to the monthly cost allocation.
o Prepare, check, print, sign, archive and complete all entries related to monthly banks reconciliation.
o Prepare, print, sign, send, archive monthly financial reports and ensure all their supporting documents are prepared, completed and archived.
o Collect all documents related to the financial reports and send them to the donors.
o Follow up with the donors to ensure closing of all notes.
o Complete monthly projection and payment request from donors. This includes preparing, printing, signing, sending and archiving these requests.
Note: the above mentioned key responsibilities/accountabilities are illustrative ones. Another future responsibilities/accountability may be assigned to the job depending on the department organizational chart.
Required Qualifications (Education/Languages/Work Experience)
A. Essential:
§ BA in Accounting.
§ A minimum of two years’ experience in a similar position.
§ Intermediate skills in the English language.
B. Desirable
§ Pre-intermediate skills in the Turkish language
§ Experience in humanitarian work and principles.
§ Verified experience in humanitarian work and principles.
§ Verified experience in dealing with donor’s policies, procedures, requirements and compliance.
Required Competencies
A. Technical Competencies (TC):
§ Advanced knowledge in general entries.
§ Advanced knowledge in QuickBooks Accounting systems.
§ Advanced knowledge of bank and cash reconciliation.
§ Advanced level in documenting & archiving financial documents.
§ Advanced level in preparing financial reports.
§ Advanced knowledge of financial supporting documents.
§ Basic knowledge in financial report analysis.
§ Advanced knowledge in Excel, Word, Outlook.
§ Basic level in budgeting.
§ Advanced knowledge of cost allocation.
§ Advanced level of financial Records management.
§ Advanced knowledge of payroll management.
§ Advanced knowledge in petty cash management.
§ Advanced knowledge of supplier’s payment principles.
B. Core Competencies (CC):
§ Accountability
§ Stakeholder Orientation.
§ Communication
§ Teamwork
§ Planning and organizing
§ Commitment to Continuous Learning
§ Creativity
§ Technological awareness
General terms and conditions
Safeguarding
Disabled beneficiaries, children and vulnerable adults must be safeguarded to the maximum possible extent from deliberate or inadvertent actions and failings that place them at risk of abuse, sexual exploitation, injury and any other harm. One of the ways that SENED shows this ongoing commitment to safeguarding is to include rigorous background and reference checks in the selection process for all candidates.
Diversity
SENED is committed to creating a genuinely inclusive, effective, and representative organizational culture, encouraging employee equity and diversity, and eliminating discrimination. Having a diverse profile of employees, different age groups, backgrounds, cultures, etc., including various experiences and capabilities, helps us understand, represent, and serve children better. Therefore, all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, religion, gender, disability, or age.
Procedures
If needed, SENED will submit a work permit application for the selected candidate after the job offer is accepted. Failure to provide the required documents or rejection of a work permit application by the Government of Türkiye will result in rescinding the employment offer.
This Job Description only serves as a guide for the position available. SENED reserves the right to change this document. Any published closing dates are estimated. Due to the nature of SENED’s work, we aim to fill vacancies as quickly as possible. This means we will close adverts as soon as we have found the right candidate, which may be before the published closing date. We would therefore advise interested applicants to apply as early as possible.
SENED Organization does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process. | SENED Kuruluşu işe alım sürecinin hiçbir adımında ücret talep etmemektedir.
How to apply
Interested candidates may please send their resumes with the cover letter and fill out the application link.
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The application deadline is the 27th of Feb 2024.
Deadline: 27 Feb 2024