Finance Officer

HEKS/EPER is looking Finance Officer. Base in Mykolaiv/Odeasa.

The Finance Officer is supporting of carrying out of the accounting and financial management of the delegation, in compliance with donors, HEKS procedures, and local legislation. Provides support and assistance to all staff in relation to financial procedures and requirements. Produces high-quality and timely financial frames and analyses other departments’ leads on financial reporting. Able to make independent decisions and actions in his/her field of activity, helping to fulfill the basic requirements of the organisation and development of the resposne team.

Tasks and responsibilities

• Ensure available and safely kept cash in accordance with security constraints and program needs
• Ensure compliance with financial rules in the management of the program’s main partnerships
• Assist in facilitating external audits and internal control and fraud prevention measures 
• Assist in disseminating information about accounting procedures, ensure they are observed by all base and field teams

Specific objectives and linked activities

• Ensure the spread, adherence, and monitoring of HEKS’s procedures and sound financial accounting systems
• Ensure accounting data are correct, supervise the physical cash count on the bases, cashboxes handover, and checking of invoices
• Processing the payments to suppliers and staffs and keep strict on all documentation involved, informing the manager of any sort of disparity
• Carrying out all accounting tasks and activities, classifying, preparing and filing of all accounting pieces in accounting software, in order to ensure strict control of all expenditures and the reliability of statements and documentation
• Assist in facilitating external audits and internal control and fraud prevention measures

Requirements & Skills: 

• At least  3 years’ experience in Finance/Accounting 
• Higher education (accounting, finance, economic)
• Experience of working with a large amount of primary documentation, checking its completeness and correctness.
• Knowledge of finance/accounting/tax law
• Understanding of the formation of basic management reports
• Experience with or understanding of International Financial Reporting Standards
• Advanced knowledge of accounting systems (1C, M.E.Doc), PC skills, Microsoft Office tools (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access), Internet.
• Strong written/verbal communication skills, strong organizational skills and attention to detail, & strong interpersonal skills
• Skills: Operativeness; Responsibility; Ability to learn quickly; Attention to details; Ability to work with large amounts of information; Purposefulness
• Languege: English – B1 (mandatory) Ukraine, Russian – fluent