Job Title: Finance Officer
Status: Full Time
Location:  Aden
During: 6 Months 
Staff: 1

ADO Overview

Abs Development Organization for Woman and Child (ADO) is a Yemeni, women-led, non-governmental organization established in 1996. ADO works to improve the well-being of women, children, youth, and vulnerable communities through humanitarian assistance, protection, empowerment, and sustainable development.
ADO implements multi-sectoral humanitarian, recovery, and development programs across all governorates of Yemen, covering Food Security and Agriculture, MPCA, Health, Nutrition, WASH, Education, Protection, Shelter/NFI, CCCM, Gender Equality and Inclusion, Livelihoods, Economic Empowerment, Climate Resilience, and Environmental Sustainability. ADO promotes locally led responses, community participation, and integrated Humanitarian–Development–Peace (HDP) Nexus approaches.
ADO is committed to humanitarian principles, accountability to affected populations, safeguarding, PSEA, gender equality, environmental responsibility, and program quality. ADO has been certified against the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) since 2026, with certification valid until May 2029.
Through its headquarters and field offices, including Aden and Sana’a, ADO collaborates with communities, government institutions, UN agencies, and national and international partners to deliver inclusive, needs-based interventions.
All personnel are expected to uphold ADO’s values, policies, and procedures; demonstrate professionalism, integrity, accountability, and teamwork; comply with safeguarding, PSEA, confidentiality, security, and health and safety requirements; and contribute to organizational and program objectives.

Vision: Together to achieve a better life for women, children, and youth.

Reported to:  Finance Manager & Project Manager

Duties and Responsibilities

• Maintain accurate project financial records, budget monitoring and expenditure tracking against the approved EUR budget and project cost categories.
• Support preparation of cash/payment documentation and ensure segregation of duties between participant verification, payment-file preparation, authorization and reconciliation.
• Coordinate with the FSP and Program team on payment-cycle readiness, transaction reports, failed transactions, unpaid balances and exceptions.
• Verify that FSP transaction fees are charged to the project as approved and are not deducted from participant entitlements.
• Support preparation of the minimum-data payment file and ensure secure transmission/receipt records are maintained in coordination with the Data Focal Point and Project Manager.
• Reconcile FSP paid/unpaid/exception reports with the approved participant file and project funding advanced after each payment round.
• Follow up payment exceptions and ensure unresolved items are documented, investigated and escalated.
• Maintain supporting documentation for project expenditures, procurement, transport, assessments, MEAL/PDM, AAP/FCRM and other approved costs.
• Monitor actual expenditure against the budget and alert the Project Manager to variances, underspending, overspending or potential ineligible costs.
• Provide timely finance inputs for monthly WHH progress updates and donor financial reporting.
• Support audit readiness by maintaining complete, traceable and securely archived financial and payment records.
• Comply with ADO anti-fraud, anti-corruption, data-protection and financial-control procedures.

Supervision:  Finance Assistant   

Career Path/ Career Cluster: Finance Management 

Experience and Qualifications    

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, business administration or related field.
• At least 2–3 years of relevant finance experience with an NGO/INGO or humanitarian project.
• Experience with donor-funded project accounting, budget monitoring and financial reconciliation.
• Experience with cash-transfer/FSP reconciliation is highly desirable.
• Strong Excel skills and ability to maintain accurate financial records.
• Good English communication and working for financial documentation/reporting

Skills    

• Financial accuracy and attention to detail.
• Preparation of journal entries and financial reconciliations.
• Preparation of financial reports and statements.
• Proficiency in accounting software and Microsoft Excel.
• Proficiency in using the ERPNext system for financial and accounting operations.
• Bank reconciliation and financial variance analysis.
• Budget preparation, monitoring, and variance analysis.
• Management of accounts, expenses, and revenues.
• Organization and maintenance of financial documents and records.
• Compliance with financial policies, procedures, and internal controls.
• Identification of financial errors and fraud risks, and reporting them appropriately.
• Confidentiality of financial information and data.
• Proficiency in English
• Timely submission of financial reports within established deadlines.

Announcement Date: 02/11/2026

Gender: Female /Male