Finance and Support Services Officer at Sightsavers

Sightsavers seeks to recruit a Finance and Support Services Officer. We are looking for an experienced, self-driven, dynamic and result oriented accounting professional who is keen to develop their career in a dynamic organisation and challenging environment.

Location: Zambia

Salary: Local terms and conditions will apply

Contract: One Year Fixed Term Contract

The Finance and Support Services Officer will provide a range of financial administration support, grants and contract management/ reporting and information management support for the effectiveness of the Zambia Country Office programme operations.

This role predominantly involves working on the utilisation of Financial Resources and reporting, being involved with planning and budgeting, having input into Grant Management by determining financial management capacity and soundness of systems and liaising with the Regional Finance Manager and Country Office staff.

This is a varied role and duties will include (but are not limited to):

• The preparation and processing of Country Office Fund requests, transfers and Supplier/ Service Provider payments
• Reviewing payment claims/ invoices
• Preparing monthly journals
• Reconciling control accounts on a monthly/ quarterly basis
• Timely and accurate data entry of financial transactions into Sun System
• General support of the Finance and Support Services Manager
• Preparation of the Country Office payroll
• Providing support of the Country Office programme budget preparations and donor reporting
• Coordination of renewals of vendor and service provider contracts, insurance policies and agreements
• Developing and maintaining good relations with partners, external suppliers and service providers to ZCO

You will have:

• A degree in Business Administration or relevant fields and at least a level 2 accounting qualification
• Extensive working experience, ideally gained within an international NGO – audit experience would be an advantage
• Strong financial, programme and project management experience
• A grant accounting and reporting background
• Experience in working with partner organisations
• Excellent computer skills including Microsoft Word and Excel
• Sound experience/ knowledge of etiquettes and good interpersonal skills

To find out more about the duties and entry requirements, please refer to the Job Description.

We anticipate that interviews for this role will take place w/c 16 December 2019.

We will be contacting short-listed candidates for interview shortly after the closing date.

As an equal opportunities employer, we actively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Qualified people living with a disability are particularly encouraged to apply.