Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, non-profit medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, pandemics, natural disasters, and exclusion from healthcare. MSF started working in Yemen since 1986 and have been present in the country continuously since 2007. Today, MSF works in 23 hospitals across the country, and provides support to more than 17 health facilities across 13 governorates, in line with our principles of independence, impartiality and neutrality. For more information, visit our Arabic website, www.msf-me.org

Médecins Sans Frontières Belgium in Yemen mission is looking for Yemeni nationals to recruit for the Accountant position:

Location: Mocha Project
Contract Duration – 1 year, renewable.
Contract type: Fixed – Term
Reporting to: HR & Finance Manager
Supervises: -

MAIN PURPOSE

Controlling the daily cash/check management, supporting the project accounting staff, overseeing, and preparing the projects books in accordance with the Finance Manager's instructions and MSF protocols, standards and procedures in order to provide accurate, reliable and updated financial information.

Accountabilities

• Controlling the daily Bank management and ensuring that all receipts and documentation meet MSF requirements (procedures, deadlines, information, signatures ...). Tracking bills/vouchers, invoices and other running costs and analysing the related information (costs, service contracts ...) in order to give reliable and updated information.
• Controlling cash advances and cashbook movements for each petty cash box, recording all IN and Out transactions, ensuring that cashbox balances always reflect the actual amount of money kept in the cashboxes and investigating any discrepancy. Ensuring strict compliance with cash control procedures for each cashbox / currency (daily cash control, weekly cash inventory and reconciliations)
• Performing currency exchange operations in accordance with the country's exchange rate policy
• Ensuring monthly accounts report in accordance with MSF procedures, checking individual entries and preparing the necessary administrative documents (originals) as a basis for justification and explanation of payments and receipts made.
• Preparing the timely payment of taxes.
• Being responsible for the processing of accounting software peripheral accounting (project) including checking the quality of the project accounting allocations and their conformity (correct encoding of salaries, following up and matching of internal transfers and advances in the project, checking invoices and their allocations
• Analysing the problems of the cash box discrepancies and giving technical help to find solutions.
• Being responsible for filing accounting documents and their annexes, preparing documents for audits, organizing the scanning of documents and archiving projects financial documents
• Informing supervisors of any issues / problems that may arise in their job performance.

MSF Section/Context Specific Accountabilities

• Controll and prepare Bank transfer letters and send to bank after signature.
• Prepare the timely payment of Social Security contributions & PIT.
• To be the focal point for bank correspondence for all payments, withdrawals, and transfers.
• Sharing of Hawala numbers to beneficiaries only.
• To be the first contact by other departments in finance in relation to any payment (CHQ, transfer, etc.)
• Report to Finance Manager any violation of rules from any staff (National or International).
• To document the weekly cash count and file the document.
• To perform a weekly cash count with Finance Assistant and help Finance Assistant follow up all open advances with the relevant departments.
• Any other task delegated by HR & Finance Manager. 

Requirements

Education

• Essential diploma or professional qualification in Accounting / Finance / Business Administration

Experience

• In administration and accountability (minimum 1 year).

Language:

• Mission working language (English) and local languages essential (Arabic).

Knowledge:

• Essential computer literacy (word/excel) Desirable knowledge on UniField.

Competencies:

• Results and Quality Orientation L2
• Teamwork and Cooperation L2
• Behavioural Flexibility L2
• Commitment to MSF Principles L2
• Stress Management L3