Title: Accountant (Receivables)

Project: Rwanda Soma Umenye

Project Summary

Chemonics Soma Umenye LLC is a five-year USAID-funded activity that aims to improve reading outcomes in Kinyarwanda for at least 1 million children in public and government-aided schools in Rwanda. Covering all 30 districts of Rwanda and working in close collaboration with the Rwanda Education Board (REB) and the Rwandan Ministry of Education (MINEDUC), Soma Umenye will contribute to Rwanda’s Education Sector Strategic Plan (ESSP) and the Government of Rwanda’s national development priority of ensuring that Rwandan primary-grade students acquire the fundamental competency of literacy so that they can succeed in future schooling and, later, in the modern workplace.

Project goals:

Soma Umenye aims to achieve the following two goals.

• To improve reading outcomes in Kinyarwanda for at least 1 million children (unique direct beneficiaries) in public and government-aided schools in Rwanda by the end of P3; and

• To ensure that at least 70 percent of P1-P3 students are able to read grade-level text with fluency and comprehension.

To achieve the above goals, it requires close collaboration with all education stakeholders under the technical leadership of MINEDUC and REB.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Maintain the VAT reconciliation tracker on a monthly basis. Follow up with RRA on reimbursement to the project;
• Review submitted travel advance and authorization requests and ensuring that staff have no outstanding travel advance prior to the issuance of payment;
• Review submitted expense reports, ensuring that calculations are done correctly, and all supporting documentation is included;
• Review of staff travel advances and reconcile each staff travel advance on a monthly basis.  Monitor and manage this receivable account and immediately follow up with any staff who has not settled her/his advance on time.;
• Reconcile the withholding tax and social security accounts to match with staff and the stakeholders’ PINs
• Reconcile the mobile money account on a monthly basis;
• Follow up with internal and external audit/review recommendations implementation related to receivables and reconciliations and ensure they are fully implemented;
• Verify the validity of the receivables account discrepancies by obtaining and investigating information from Abacus;
• Follow of on unreconciled transactions and ensure they are corrected in the following month;
• Summarize, analyze, and report on all accounts receivable on a monthly basis and submit reports to the Director of Finance and Deputy Chief of Party-Operations;
• All other tasks as request supervisor and/or his/her designee (Bookings and general accounting activities).

Job Qualifications

• Completion of secondary school is required, and a bachelor’s degree (or the equivalent) in accounting and/or financial management or technical education is desirable;
• Three to five years of progressively responsible experience is required in accounting and financial management of USAID or similar donor-funded development activities with increasing levels of responsibility required;
• Prior experience with cash-based accounting required;
• Demonstrated financial management experience in donor-funded development projects required;
• Membership in a professional body, such as Certified Public Accountants, preferred;
• Demonstrated exemplary diplomatic, communication, and interpersonal skills;
• Written and spoken proficiency in English.

Level of Effort and Location of Assignment

This is a long-term position and the location of the assignment is Kigali, Rwanda.

Supervision

The Accountant (Receivables) will report directly to the Director of Finance or his/her designee.

Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted

To learn more about Chemonics, please visit www.chemonics.com

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Closing Date : 25th April, 2020.