Job Title: Accountant
Position Type: Full-Time
Reports to: Finance & Administration Manager
Posting Location: Aden, Yemen

Overview

John Snow, Inc. (JSI), a Boston-based public health management firm dedicated to providing high quality technical and managerial assistance to public health programs throughout the United States and the low- and middle-income countries. JSI is seeking an accountant for the USAID funded System, Health and Resiliency Project (SHARP) in Yemen. The project has two overarching goals:

1)    to reduce mortality among women of reproductive age, their newborns, and children under five and 2) to increase community and health system resiliency.
The accountant is a full time position based in Aden, Yemen. S/he will assist in maintaining the JSI financial accounts and administrative systems for SHARP. The Accountant will be responsible for the accounting system, expenditure projections, and expense monitoring and reconciliation. S/he will ensure cost-effectiveness, efficiency and accountability throughout the life of the program and will report to the Finance & Administration Manager.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assist with the day to day accounting including maintaining the JSI field accounts system, examining receipts and vouchers, reconciling advances, projecting and tracking expenditures and accruals;
• Ensure timely monthly financial reports to the Finance and Administration Manager.
• Assist in submitting monthly financial reports to Home Office and addressing the feedback and comments.
• Assist with the review of provincial expenses and uploads into the main accounting system;
• Review and facilitate fund request transfers to regional offices;
• Ensure all office space rentals are paid in time as per lease agreements and the rental schedule is constantly up dated;
• Tracking and monitoring of staff advances including reconciling of cash balances.
• Conduct financial supervisory visits in the provincial offices including continuous capacity building of Finance personnel;
• Ensure that all expenses incurred by project are paid for in a timely manner and ensure VAT free exemption;
• Process payroll including computation of all applicable deductions.

Qualifications:

• At least 4 years of financial & administrative experience;
• Financial & administrative experience with USAID-funded project & knowledge of USAID rules & regulations;
• Experience & knowledge of Yemen tax laws preferred;
• Excellent verbal & written English and Arabic skills
• Ability to take initiative & work in teams;
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word & Excel;
• Experience with QuickBooks and experience working in an NGO/INGO, an added advantage