Business Support Officer I (Project Accountants)- 4 Positions at icipe - African Insect Science for Food and Health

Overall Purpose of the Job

The position holder will be responsible for management staff working advances for a portfolio of restricted projects and provide financial management and accounting support to project portfolio teams.

Specific Duties

•  Provide financial management and accounting support to project portfolio teams.
•  Review of staff surrenders and claims for validity, completeness, and accuracy in line with icipe’s financial policies and donor regulations.
•  Preparation of long outstanding staff working advance balances for management’s action.
•  Facilitations during projects’ periodic audits.
•  Collate/document user experience feedback for process improvement.
•  Collate/document new/emerging donor requirements for process improvement.
•  Recommend other generally accepted good practices for process improvement.
•  Other related tasks as assigned.

Requirements/Qualifications

•  Bachelor’s degree in accounting, business, finance, economics, or a related subject.
•  Professional qualification or satisfactory progress towards attainment of professional qualification in accountancy (CPA II or equivalent)
•  Relevant exposure to auditing or financial management will be desirable (at least 2 years of practical work experience).

Other Desirable Attributes

•  Ability to study and familiarize with the Centre’s documents (Financial Rules & Regulations, Procurement Manual, Whistleblower policy, Anti-fraud, and ant-corruption policy…etc.) and donor-specific requirements.
•  Ability to study and familiarize with the Centre’s systems.
•  Ability to interpret, resolve, and adapt decisions within established guidelines and directions in the execution of tasks.
•  Capacity to function effectively as a member of a multi-disciplinary team.
•  Ability to search for common ground in problem-solving.
•  Support in the development of solutions in a consultative manner for process improvement.
•  Train and create users’ awareness in the management of staff working advances and related processes.
•  Provide support to the research themes and units to ensure effective staff working advance management processes in line with the icipe’s financial policies and donor regulations.
•  Provide support in the resource mobilization activities as assigned from time to time.
•  Provide support in partner management processes as assigned from time to time.

Reporting

• This position reports to the Senior Projects Accountant.