Latest Recruitment at International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

The Position:

Internships are short-term academic training for young professionals who join ILRI for a short period (usually 3 months or less but can be up to 6 months in length) as s part of their academic curriculum and are expected to resume their studies upon completion of their internship. ILRI wishes to recruit a Finance Intern based at the Finance Unit to assist in undertaking the below activities:

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in preparing VAT exemption applications and liaising with Finance Admin. Assistant to submit to Liaison Office
• Assist in monitoring and updating of VAT exemptions sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and KRA
• Notifying the responsible accountant on return of the certificates and issuance of the VAT exemptions to the suppliers
• Assist the Finance Admin Assistant in assigning Finance tasks at the Helpdesk
• Checking of supporting documents on Payment Vouchers
• Assist in Invoice-PO matching process, and post supplier invoices in OCS
• Learn and be able to undertake supplier statement reconciliations
• Be able to learn and generate payment remittance proposals
• Learning and preparing bank reconciliations and following up on outstanding items.
• Learn how to draft letters/instructions to the bank
• Assist in review of the petty cash vouchers

• Assist the Finance Admin. Assistant in generating receipts for staff refunds
• Assist to review Travel Expense Reports (TERs) for staff
• Assist accountant in reviewing physical field office vouchers
• Storing, arranging, indexing and classifying various financial records in the archive
• Assist in filling finance documents & retrieving documents during project audits
• Maintaining a database of suppliers and other external customers’ contacts
• Understand the ILRI budgeting cycle, concepts and process
• Learn how to prepare monthly management reports
• Understand how to review donor reports.

Job Requirements

Applicants must at the time of application meet the following requirements:

• Be enrolled for a university degree programme in Finance or Accounting or its equivalent either in third year or fourth year.
• CPA 2 or equivalent
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office including Excel and word and good skills at using financial software applications.
• Proficiency in English.

Terms of appointment: ILRI will offer a competitive stipend to cover living expenses as well as insurance.

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The Position:

Internships are short-term academic training for young professionals who join ILRI for a short period (usually 3 months or less but can be up to 6 months in length) as s part of their academic curriculum and are expected to resume their studies upon completion of their internship. ILRI wishes to recruit a Finance Intern based at the Finance Unit to assist in undertaking the below activities:

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in preparing VAT exemption applications and liaising with Finance Admin. Assistant to submit to Liaison Office
• Assist in monitoring and updating of VAT exemptions sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and KRA
• Notifying the responsible accountant on return of the certificates and issuance of the VAT exemptions to the suppliers
• Assist the Finance Admin Assistant in assigning Finance tasks at the Helpdesk
• Checking of supporting documents on Payment Vouchers
• Assist in Invoice-PO matching process, and post supplier invoices in OCS
• Learn and be able to undertake supplier statement reconciliations
• Be able to learn and generate payment remittance proposals
• Learning and preparing bank reconciliations and following up on outstanding items.
• Learn how to draft letters/instructions to the bank
• Assist in review of the petty cash vouchers

• Assist the Finance Admin. Assistant in generating receipts for staff refunds
• Assist to review Travel Expense Reports (TERs) for staff
• Assist accountant in reviewing physical field office vouchers
• Storing, arranging, indexing and classifying various financial records in the archive
• Assist in filling finance documents & retrieving documents during project audits
• Maintaining a database of suppliers and other external customers’ contacts
• Understand the ILRI budgeting cycle, concepts and process
• Learn how to prepare monthly management reports
• Understand how to review donor reports.

Requirements

Applicants must at the time of application meet the following requirements:

• Be enrolled for a university degree programme in Finance or Accounting or its equivalent either in third year or fourth year.
• CPA 2 or equivalent
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office including Excel and word and good skills at using financial software applications.
• Proficiency in English.

Terms of appointment: ILRI will offer a competitive stipend to cover living expenses as well as insurance.