Desired start date : September 2025
Duration : 12-month apprenticeship
Location : Solidarités International Headquarters, Clichy
SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL (SI) is an international humanitarian aid association that, for over 40 years, has been providing relief to populations affected by armed conflicts and natural disasters by meeting their basic needs, such as food, water, and shelter. Particularly committed to combating diseases linked to unsafe water, the world’s leading cause of death, SI’s interventions provide expertise in the areas of access to drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene promotion, as well as in the essential area of food security and livelihoods. Present in 26 countries, SI’s teams – a total of 3,200 people, including expatriates, national employees, permanent staff at headquarters, and a few volunteers – operate with professionalism and commitment while respecting cultures.
Contex te
The Administrative and Financial Assistant will join the “desk” team, responsible for liaising between country offices and headquarters and providing operational support in the field. He/she will report to the Desk’s Management Controller (MCC) and will be in regular contact with the administrative and financial teams of the field missions supported by the desk (on average 5 missions per desk).
The tasks described in this announcement are subject to change depending on ongoing reorganizations and priorities defined by the Regional Desk Director.
Description of the offer
General
- Communication with the field, links between the field and headquarters, links between headquarters departments
- Discovery of the humanitarian sector and its sectors of activity
- Participation in weekly and monthly desk meetings
Accounting
- Supports the administrative and financial coordinator in allocating expenses made at headquarters on behalf of country offices
- Participates in monitoring desk costs
- Supports the annual accounting closing and/or analytical closing of missions Uses SAGA accounting software (field) and BC requests (head office)
- Assists the Desk Management Controller in their accounting tasks inherent to the missions
Administrative and financial management
- Supports the field: manages the daily needs of the field administrative teams
- Participates in the verification of budgets for project proposals submitted to donors
- Participates in the verification of budgetary monitoring of missions
- Participates in the verification of financial reports of programs (financial document and budget narrative part) to be submitted to donors
- Assistance in preparing financial audits
- Participate in the various ongoing projects
- Participates in the classification, archiving and centralization of financial documentation
- Contributes to the analysis of the financial health of country offices and/or ad hoc analyses
Cash management
- Contributes to monitoring payment requests and donor reimbursements in support of the Head Office Treasury Officer
- Contributes to the validation of project partner payments
Administrative support (at the request of the regional director of the Desk)
- Internal and external meetings: room booking, minutes, preparation of materials, etc.
- Translation of documents
- Certification of official documents (ad-hoc)
- Visa application tracking (ad-hoc)
- Support for desk life: organization of retreats, visits to landlords
Your profile
- Minimum Bac +3/4 level in finance (University Masters / Business School / BTS) – awareness of the humanitarian sector is an asset
- Proficiency in the Office suite and good command of Excel
- Ability to work on accounting software appreciated
- Ability to work in a team
- Analytical and synthesis skills
- Good command of English (oral/written)
- Autonomy, rigor and versatility
- Ability to learn, remotely, in a team
- Commitment to the principles and work of Solidarités International
SI will offer you the following conditions
- Alternation based at the headquarters of SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL in Clichy (92), Mairie de Clichy metro station
- Possibility of teleworking in accordance with the teleworking charter in force and the manager
- 12-month work-study apprenticeship contract
- Remuneration according to current regulations
- Public transport covered 50% by SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL
- Meal vouchers at €8.90/day of actual training, with 60% participation from SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL
- Leave: 2.0833 CP/month and 1 day of RTT/full month of work
How to apply
Do you recognize yourself in this description?
If so, send us your CV and cover letter!
Applications containing only CVs will not be considered.
Solidarités International reserves the right to close a recruitment process before the deadline. Thank you for your understanding.
And to find out more about Solidarités International: www.solidarites.org
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Solidarités International (SI) is committed to preventing and combating any type of abuse—any act of sexual exploitation, abuse, and/or harassment (SEAH) against members of beneficiary communities or its employees, harm to persons and/or property, fraud, corruption, undeclared conflicts of interest, or the financing of activities that violate human rights—that may be perpetrated in the context of its operations. SI has a zero-tolerance policy for any type of abuse, particularly acts of SEAH.
Solidarités International is a fair-trade employer that combats all forms of discrimination. SI will never request any compensation for participating in a recruitment process.