VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

Plan Cameroon is an international Child Centered community Development Organization with no religious, political or governmental afficialtion working in Cameroon since 1996, We promote equal opportunity employment and pay special consideration to female candidates. Plan is a Children's organization with primary concerns on children rights, safety and well-being and has in its interest to create safe environments for children with more attention paid to child protection. All employees are therefore expected to comply with our Child protection policy.

within the context of Emergency Response to Refugees from Centra Africa Republic Plan Cameroon is urgently seeking to recruit experienced, enthusiastic, humanitarian-oriented and hardworking Cameroonian for six months duration to fulfill the positions below. While funding is only guaranteed for 6 months at the point of advertising, Plan is seeking longer-term funding and the operations in the East and Adamawa Regions will be operating for much longer than 6 months.

Title: One(01) Accountant to CAR Refugees-UNICEF

Duty Station: Bertoua

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

Under the supervision of the Finance Manager, the Accountant will among other tasks perform the following tasks:

1. Business planning process

• Participates in the budgeting process and ensures that operational plans are consistent with the approved budgets.
• Participates in the development and modification of PO's.
• Monitor's project budget entries in program management software called PPM and keeps records of budget modifications on file.
• Attends to Coordination meetings/seminars on Projects grants and relevant information and active participation is given/made.
• Monitor actual Project expenditures against approved line items on a monthly basis; alert management on any irregularities.
• Assist in dissemination of Project grant related information to team members and partners every month.

2. Accounting and treasury

• Ensure payment transactions to project implementation partners.
• Review all vouchers related to project(cash disbursement, cash receipt, journals) for completeness, accuracy and consistency with attached supporting documents in compliance with the Operations manual(OM) and local laws
• Facilitates all payments in the field during various activities(training, workshops..).
• Reviews requisitions and ensure they are in line with the budget.
• Undertake other accounting functions such as preparation of reports, tax related Data and filing of documents.
• Provides assistance during audits for accurate, timely and organized audit activities.
• Prepares Cash Forecast on a monthly basis.

3. Financial reporting and analysis

• Review accuracy or General Ledger report print-out specific to Grant and ensures consistency with grant tracking system(GTS) and PPM.
• Tracks monthly project expenditure regularly and issues/problems identified are reported to  Finance Coordinator and Project Coordinator appropriately and on time.
• Analysis and reconciles project expenditures Vs budget accurately and on time.
• Prepare and submit donor financial reports on time as per the agreement with donor/s, in collaboration with the Project Coordinator and Finance Coordinator.
• Ensure that the Project Coordinator Team is kept informed about the status of the grant lines by preparing a monthly report on the status of the grant.
• Investigate project variances and submit variance reports to Supervisors.
• Prepares the bank reconciliation statement if a bank account is opened for the project.
• Follow up the Audit recommendations to ensure that they are fully implemented.
• Close out project accounts upon project completion.

4. Manages Project Information systems

• Works in collaboration with Grants Accountant to Attach Project Account lines to grant agreement document(GAD) accurately and on a timely basis before the month end process.
• Reply to inquiries on Project grant-finance related issues promptly and correctly.
• Stores files and other information related to SFP project Grant in an organized manner and easily retrieved.

Qualification and Experience

• Degree in Accounting/Finance
• At least 3 years' experience in a similar role
• Good experience in project reporting requirements.

Skills & Behaviours

• Good knowledge and experience in using computer software applications(specially MS Excel).
• Fair knowledge of project management
• Good experience and knowledge of accounting and grant funds management regulations and procedures with an emergency or development organisation preferably
• Good experience and knowledge on internal financial controls and procedures.
• Excellent  written and spoken English and French
• calm and positive under pressure and in difficult situations
• Aware of impact on others and adjusting own behavior accordingly
• Safety and security awareness
• Good tem player characteristics and ability to work and perform under pressure
• Experience of working in emergency context

Application procedure

All applicationns should include:

1. Cover letter;
2. Comprehensive CV;

Interested applicants should submit their applications no later than 30 June 2014 at 17 o'clock preferably in soft copies and by e-mail to the address: Plan-Cameroon.jobvacancies@plan-international.org with a subject title: Application for Accountant to CAR Refugees-UNICEF.

Only shortlisted candidates shall be contacted. The candidate finally selected should comply with the Child Protection Policy applied in the Organization.

NB: No application shall be admitted after the closing hour mentionned above