Finance Officer – Caracas (Nationals Only) At Norwegian Refugee Council

The purpose of the Finance Officer position is to execute the accounting and financial management of resources in the assigned area, in accordance with the regulations and standards of the country, NRC and donor requirements.

Duties and responsibilities
Generic responsibilities
1. Comply with NRC policies, standards, strategies, tools, manuals and guidelines.
2. Comply with the strategy, tools, manuals, guidelines and standards of the finance department.
3. Participate in the development of financial projects in accordance with the action plan.
4. Be responsible for the activities related to their technical area in the projects.
5. Identify solutions to daily problems in accordance with the agreed procedures, priorities and standards for the work area.
6. Prepare and prepare the status reports required for decision-making by management.
7. Ensure that the project registration and identification systems are appropriate for data protection.
8. Guarantee the correct physical and digital filing of project documents.
9. Promote and share ideas for the technical improvement of the financial function.
10. Contribute to the implementation of minimum standards for Safe and Inclusive programming in your work area.

Specific Responsibilities
Accounting
1. Prepare and account for expenses corresponding to HK client, national and expatriate staff payroll in the respective postbacks.
2. Prepare and account for reallocations in Agresso when necessary.
3. Ensure that the information entered in the postbacks is consistent with the chart of accounts, activity, project, Budget ID, allocation table, PR, PO, VE and contracts.
4. Contribute to the preparation of the monthly financial closing, preparing the documentation and information required by your supervisor.
5. Ensure that both the physical and electronic file of all documents in the finance area are up to date.
6. Deliver in a timely manner all products and reports established by the different support departments within the agreed dates (accounting reports, etc.)

Treasury Management (Banks and Cash Desks)
1. Prepare cash audits if required by your supervisor.
2. Verify that invoices and all supporting documents for expenses comply with basic requirements, with the internal rules and procedures of NRC, the funders and national legislation.
3. Control, manage and verify travel expense requests and the process of legalizing advances for area personnel according to current internal policies.

Financial Management
1. Verify and provide information on budget allocation to the assigned area team when necessary.
2. Provide technical and management support to area offices during vacations, medical leave or as necessary.
3. Other tasks assigned by the immediate supervisor in compliance with the objectives of the position.

Qualifications
Generic professional skills:
• University graduate, preferably in Economics, Finance, Business Administration or related fields.
• Verbal and written fluency in English is desirable.

Context/ Specific skills, knowledge and experience:
• Demonstrable experience of/in:
o Minimum 2 years in similar positions in the context of humanitarian aid.
o Experience in similar positions with an international organization, with United Nations Agencies and/or in a humanitarian context will be positively valued.
• Solid knowledge of Venezuelan accounting and tax regulations
• Budget management
• Writing technical reports.
• Mastery of office tools relevant to management.
• Availability to travel to states where NRC has a presence and stay overnight on site.
Personal qualities
• Handling unsafe environments.
• Planning and delivering results.
• Working with people.
• Analysis.
• Communicating with impact and respect.
• Coping with change.
We can offer
a fixed-term employment contract, salary according to the NRC Venezuela scale.