Associate, Finance & Administration - Abuja ( Maternity Cover)

Role Summary

• Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) Africa seeks a Finance and Administrative Associate to support the country's program operations. The role will report to the Country Manager Finance & Admin and is responsible for supporting finance and administrative operations. This involves establishing and maintaining efficient administrative systems and control mechanisms to support the smooth running of office operations and ensure compliance with administrative and financial processes.

Job Responsibilities:

• Support the day-to-day operational, financial, and administrative operations (including processing staff requests related to program operations)
• Review accounts payable include invoices, Requests for Payments, and travel expense reports.
• Collaborate with team to fill in monthly timesheets and ensure a readily available database of all supporting documents linked to the GL.
• Review EDT partner organization monthly financial report
• Ensure compliance with financial internal controls and ensure that transactions are processed and assets managed in accordance with the TaRL Africa financial and operational policies.
• Support the office audits and financial risk management and fraud prevention issues
• Process and share monthly bank reconciliations within the ERP and share with CMF&A for review and approval
• Review advance requests and advance surrenders in the ERP
• Review monthly bank reconciliations
• Maintain the accounting reporting process, ensuring the accuracy and completeness of ledgers and all supporting documentation and compliance with finance and procurement regulations.
• Review and reconcile monthly payroll and process the payroll payments for the country office.

Required minimum Skills and Competencies:

• At least 2 years' experience in finance, operations and office administration, ideally for a non-profit organization.
• A degree in Finance, Accounting, Management, business administration or any relevant field.
• Should be Certified Public Accountant (ICAN)
• Experience in bookkeeping and computerized accounting systems.
• Experience in making improvements to financial systems; an aptitude for this work is an advantage.
• Experience in periodic financial reporting for management purposes and donor reporting
• Ability to think critically and analytically and identify and troubleshoot potential issues before they arise.
• Positive team player with interest in people management and development
• Ability to learn and use new technologies.