Finance Technical Assistant – Yola at Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent, humanitarian, non-profit, non-governmental organisation. We provide assistance, protection and durable solutions to refugees and internally displaced persons worldwide.
What is NRC?

NRC promotes and protects the rights of refugees and people who have been displaced within their own country. We take action during situtations of armed conflict, and engage in other contextes where our competences will add value.

The majority of our 5000 staff members are national employees in NRC’s projects in around 25 countries worldwide. All our projects are supervised by the NRC Head Office in Oslo.

NRC was established in 1946 under the name Aid to Europe, to assist refugees in Europe after World War II. Today NRC is organised as an independent, private foundation. We cooperate closely with the UN and other humanitarian organisations, around the world as well as in Norway.

What does NRC do?

Programme Activities:

NRC’s main activity is the deliverance of humanitarian aid through programme activities in the field. NRC specialises in five programme areas, or core competences – Shelter, Food Security, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Education, and Information Counselling and Legal Aid (ICLA). The core competences are adaptive to different contexts and mutually reinforcing.Responsibilities

Generic Responsibilities:

Ensure adherence with NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines
Implement delegated support function portfolio according to plan of actin
Ensure proper filing of documents both in hard and soft
Promote and share ideas for improvement of the support function

Specific Responsibilities

Ensure that cash are kept properly, payment process and other financial processes take place in adherence to Financial Handbook, other NRC policies and donor and the authorities requirements
Make sure that daily cash counts are maintained.
Make sure posting of transactions are done on daily basis.
Make sure payments are processed on time
Be responsible for bank transactions in line with NRC policy and procedures;
Posting of income and cost into bank cash boxes i.e. USD and NGN daily basis.
Be the focal person between Area Office and Field office in regard to funds transfer requests and other payments through bank.
Ensure timely clearance of field office cash box.
Be responsible for release of payment to contractors & other payments as stipulated in the contract/agreement(s) & in line with NRC policies and procedures.
Ensure control for the prevention of waste, fraud and mismanagement before processing the payments.
Keep good control of the Field offices, banks details and assist them with tools in use by NRC.
Responsible for keeping of cash in office
Responsible for scanning and archiving finance documentation as per SSDi guidelines for the Field Office on a weekly and monthly basis.

Qualifications

Generic Professional Competencies:

Experience from working as a Support Function Officer in a humanitarian/recovery context.
Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts.
Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities.
Some knowledge of English