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Social Enterprise Accountant at SOS Kids’s Villages Rwanda: (Deadline 22 March, 2024

VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

SOS Kids’s Villages Rwanda is a child-focused group that gives direct providers to the areas of care, schooling and well being for kids susceptible to shedding parental care and those that have misplaced parental care.

SOS Kids’s Villages is a non-governmental, non-political, non-denominational and non-racial and has been working in Rwanda since 1979. Envisioning that each youngster belongs to a household and grows up with love, respect and safety, we exist to construct households for kids in want, we assist them form their very own futures, and we share within the improvement of their communities. All the pieces we do is guided by the agency perception that no youngster ought to develop up alone and that we have to enhance care for kids who’re in danger, enabling them to beat precarious circumstances and to reach life. Our core values guiding who we’re and what we do embrace braveness to take motion, dedication to maintain our guarantees, belief to consider in one another, and accountability to be dependable Companions. SOS Kids’s Villages Rwanda is legally registered as a Nationwide Affiliation.

SOS Kids’s Villages Rwanda wish to recruit to fill the next emptiness place 

Place title: SOCIAL BUSINESS ACCOUNTANT

Reporting to: Social Enterprise Supervisor

Location: Nationwide Workplace (Kigali-Rwanda)

 Place abstract

Below the general supervision of the Social Enterprise Supervisor, the Social Enterprise Accountant can be answerable for co-ordination and supervision of monetary issues of the Social Companies for SOS Kids’s Villages which embrace the Faculties, Coaching Middle, Bakery, Parking Heaps, Visitor Homes, Agricultural Actions, pure water sources and the like. In shut collaboration with the Chief Accountant and the steering of the Head of Finance, the place holder will guarantee the supply of a high-quality monetary accounting service that helps the efficient and environment friendly administration of all monetary sources, inside statutory and regulatory tips and can work throughout the finance crew supporting correct and well timed processing of monetary transactions and processes, and inside/exterior reporting necessities.

Key efficiency areas and major tasks:

1. Oversees guides and controls monetary issues guaranteeing that the social enterprise operates in accordance with Monetary Insurance policies and Procedures of SOS Kids’s Villages worldwide and are in keeping with the widely accepted accounting rules.
2. Maintains assigned basic ledger accounts with journal entries and account reconciliations in compliance with Organisation’s reporting necessities, assists within the building of budgets and forecasts, and supplies basic assist for the monetary and accounting processes of the SOS CV. A extremely detail-oriented particular person with the power to satisfy deadlines month-to-month, quarterly, and yearly.
3. Ensures that every one funds are real, are correctly supported and accounted for; and all receipts are correctly documented and well timed banked
4. Proposes and implements (upon approval) new Monetary and Administrative procedures and programs enchancment aimed toward strengthening the Group’s Monetary Management along side the Head of Finance via the Chief Accountant.
5. Offering assist, help and canopy throughout the broader Finance crew to handle crew absences and peak intervals, which can embrace fingers on assist and/or managing extra monetary tasks and employees.

Co-ordinates Annual Price range Preparation Course of and Finance transfers.

1. In session with the Head of Finance, helps the Social Enterprise Supervisor and facility heads to arrange and develop their annual budgets.
2. Ensures that every one Proposals from facility Heads are well timed obtained documented and mentioned with the Head of Finance: and that the proposed nation finances is precisely ready nicely in time to satisfy the required deadlines for approvals.
3. Periodically checks the authorised annual finances revenues, bills and balances and advises the Social Enterprise Supervisor and the opposite facility heads on deviations and variances, and helps to report and recommend changes or finances re-allocation the place mandatory.
4. Co-ordinates switch of funds from Nationwide Workplace: and switch of funds to facility accounts in session with the Social Enterprise Supervisor and the Head of Finance. Recurrently checks the financial institution balances and ensures there are at all times adequate funds to run the Social Enterprise easily on a regular basis in accordance to the authorised finances.

Enhances Inner Controls

1. Chargeable for coordinating the oversite of all social enterprise funds and property, performing fiscal and finances evaluation, reconciliations, and postings; helping within the improvement of monetary statements, stories, and Social Enterprise proposals.
2. Works with Social Enterprise Supervisor and the Chief Accountant to develop or enhance communications for reporting of revenues, costing, money move, and monetary evaluation of working outcomes. An accountant will carry out audits of data and adherence to SOS CV insurance policies and procedures.
3. Checks the Professional-forma Invoices, payments and cost vouchers to see if the bills are acceptable and throughout the finances limits, in addition to the accuracy of the payments and invoices earlier than cost is made.
4. Recurrently checks the Financial institution and Money Registers in addition to the Financial institution Statements of all accounts in order to make sure that all funds and withdrawals have been genuine. Instantly stories any irregularity famous for mandatory motion.
5. Checks all Money and Financial institution Registers and their associated vouchers month-to-month for accuracy, guaranteeing they’re appropriately reconciled, bills are appropriately coded and all supporting paperwork can be found.
6. Assists with the institution of correct store-keeping data and procedures. Conducts common checks of all shops for the Social Enterprise and verifies bodily steadiness with the inventory playing cards steadiness.
7. Recurrently checks registers for all revenues by finishing up a income monitoring train in order to make sure all revenues are promptly collected. Reviews any overdue quantities to the Social Enterprise Supervisor for acceptable motion.
8. Conducts numerous spot checks inside every facility. e.g., Petty money, gross sales of uniforms, charges assortment, donations and billings.
9. Periodically helps the Administrative Assistant to test household accounts and assess the efficient utilization of meals and family allowance: and stories any discrepancies, or makes suggestions each time mandatory.
10. Ensures that every one measures to strengthen inside management as advisable by auditors in numerous audit stories are carried out and adhered to by the Social Enterprise.
11. Getting into the month-to-month accounting information for SOS CV Social Enterprise within the Navision accounting software program.

Performs Detailed Accounting Duties

1. Checks Financial institution and money registers of all of the Social Companies; and the financial institution statements of all Social Enterprise accounts, and prepares reconciliation statements month-to-month.
2. Checks if all cost vouchers have been correctly ready with related accounting codes and numbers and with ample supporting paperwork and people entries made within the registers tally with the cost vouchers.
3. Proposes finances changes/reallocation, if mandatory, for approval.
4. Retains data and custody of all used and new cheque books, financial institution statements, cost vouchers, stuffed financial institution registers, receipt books – used and new, finance approvals and different finance paperwork in an orderly method for straightforward retrieval for checking and for audit functions.
5. Recurrently screens the finances balances towards the bills and advises the Social Enterprise Supervisor and the monetary controller accordingly to make sure that finances allocations aren’t surpassed, and that every one bills are throughout the finances limits.
6. Administers meals and family and clothes allowances for the Social Enterprise in line with the authorised charges, and the payroll for the Social Enterprise and ensures right deductions of earnings tax, NSSF, correct restoration of wage advances and loans and so forth.
7. Recurrently checks the accuracy of all payments (phone, electrical energy payments, upkeep claims and so forth.) for accuracy and authenticity, and recommends cost earlier than vouchers are ready
8. Prepares and supplies statistics summaries of the Social Enterprise for the Quarterly and Annual Reviews.

Necessities – Data, expertise, abilities and competencies

{Qualifications}

A Bachelor’s diploma within the following is especially favoured:

• Accounting
• Finance
• Economics
• Some other associated discipline.

With a minimal of 5 years sensible expertise in accounting. Having an expert certificates is an added benefit.

Competencies – information, abilities, talents 

• Data of utilizing any accounting software program
• Confirmed skill to draft, edit and produce Accounting/Finance stories
• Confirmed expertise working with Authorities, civil society, worldwide organizations and donors
• Consciousness and understanding of social improvement points
• Robust networking, partnership and interpersonal abilities.
• Constructive {and professional} method: extremely organised, outcomes oriented, utilizing initiative and protecting commitments  

The right way to Apply:

In case you consider you’re the proper candidate for the above place, please ship your detailed software (together with software letter, CV and copies of schooling qualification)  

Solely shortlisted candidates can be contacted.

All functions must be submitted to sos.recruitment@sos-rwanda.org and correctly fill the applying type discovered by way of the next  LINK  by not later than March 22^nd, 2024

Late functions is not going to be accepted.

“SOS Kids’s Villages Worldwide holds strict youngster safeguarding rules and a zero-tolerance coverage for conducts of sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse within the office and different locations the place the group’s actions are rendered. Parallel to technical competence, recruitment, choice and hiring selections will give due emphasize to assessing candidates worth congruence and thorough background checks, police clearance reference test processes”.

The functions from certified girls are strongly inspired 

Carried out at Kigali on 14^th, March 2024

Jean Bosco KWIZERA

Nationwide Director