JOB OFFER – FAIRMED, international NGO: Accounting Assistant Project “MAGNIKE KO”

Call for applications

Position: Project Accounting Assistant “MAGNIKE KO”
Place of work: Abong-Mbang
Department: Finance and Accounting
Line Manager: Project Coordinator
Functional Manager: FAIRMED Accountant
Duration of the contract: 24 months (Possibility of extension)
Start date of the contract:
01.02 .2024

Specificity: Position reserved only for candidates of Cameroonian nationality

FAIRMED is a Swiss development organization which has long experience with neglected diseases affecting indigenous populations. We are experts in Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) and public health. We believe in local capabilities and all our offices and projects in Africa and Asia are managed by local experts. Through neglected diseases, we identify our target populations and, through a comprehensive approach that takes into account all health-related factors, we break the vicious cycle of disease and poverty. We act on both supply and demand. On the one hand, we are close to communities, we know their needs and we give them the means to act and on the other hand, we strengthen primary health care systems which constitute the first point of access to health for our communities. Through our programs, we are changing the lives of the most vulnerable locally and, globally, we are contributing to universal health coverage and the Millennium Development Goals, whose slogan is “leave no one behind”.
Summary (position mission
Contribute to the implementation of quality management of resources on a financial and accounting level.
Responsibilities and specific tasks
Responsibility no. 1: Financial management
Ensure compliance with FAIRMED standards and procedures at the project level.
Ensure the sufficiency, accuracy and completeness of supporting documents (bundles) for all financial transactions at the project level
Participate in the analysis of fund requests submitted by project implementing partners according to procedures ;
Make requests for supplies to the cash register on time;
Carry out cash outflows in accordance with the procedures in force;
Ensure the management of the cash register and the maintenance of management documents,
Prepare the monthly cash flow report;
Raise project staff awareness of administrative, accounting and financial procedures and ensure their compliance. Facilitate unannounced cash checks;
Participate in the development of the project’s annual budgets
Responsibility no. 2 — Accounting management
Print and enter creditors and debtors
Establish the status of weekly needs
Classify all accounting documents
Classify and pre-archive accounting documents in the chronos;
Carry out a systematic check on accounting documents before entry;
Regularly enter project accounting documents;
Submit cash journal data and scanned supporting documents to accounting on a weekly basis;
Transmit cash journal data and physical supporting documents to accounting on a monthly basis;
Ensure the management of project fixed assets and inventories;
Participate in the preparation, execution and evaluation of internal and external audit missions;
Carry out any other task entrusted by management;
Responsibility no. 3: Cash and banking
Check cash documents for projects
Carry out cash inventories

Monitor reimbursements of advances and returns to cash
Enter cash entries in WINPACCS. Enter and post bank documents
Classify all bank documents in chronological order
Responsibility no. 4: Pre-audit participation
Organize and maintain archiving in good form
Monitor the Financial risk table
In collaboration with the accountant, check the consistency of the documents accounting with interim and final financial reports.
Responsibility no. 5: Material management
Maintain the table of fixed assets and fixed asset files
Maintain the various vehicle logbooks
Enter and allocate according to fuel consumption according to the logbooks
Maintain stock records by item.
• Participate in end-of-year inventories
POSITION PROFILE.
Qualification (essential)
Holder of a bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, management and business administration or any other equivalent diploma.
Experience (essential)
Minimum 3 years in a similar position in an international NGO
Knowledge and technical skills (essential)
Good mastery of project donor strategies
Good knowledge of the fundamentals of accounting
Knowledge of management control, the fundamentals of management of project
Proven mastery of WINPACS accounting software (Cashbook); Excel, Word, Power point
Know how to keep cash books
Know how to use budgetary tools
Advanced knowledge of the financial structure of an office Advanced knowledge of the FAIRMED management framework
Transversal skills (essential)
Integrity and reliability
Autonomy and Strong sense of organization,
Good writing skills Team spirit
How to apply
Anyone Interested party is requested to send their file (CV, cover letter, scanned copies of the required diploma and work certificates) by email until January 19, 2024 at 5 p.m. to the following contact: recruitmentscameroun@fairmed.cm
With the title of the email: “MAGNIKE Project Accounting Assistant KO 012024”
Only pre-selected candidates will be contacted.
Female applications strongly encouraged. The FAIRMED Foundation has a zero tolerance policy towards fraud, sexual exploitation, abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of power and discrimination. This is why it arrogates to itself the right of candidates.