Job Vacancy In Felm Nepal,Job Vacancy For Senior Accountant,

Job Overview

JOB OPPORTUNITY

Position: Senior Accountant

Number of Vacant Position: 1

Location: Lalitpur

Degree: Bachelors(Undergraduate)

Purpose:

As a senior accountant, you will analyse complex financial records and reports. You oversee Felm Nepal’s accounting operations. Senior accountant regulates and authenticate financial transactions. You maintain a ledger to ensure effectiveness and accuracy of all accounting tasks. It is your job to balance accounts and confirm and verify bank statements on behalf of Felm Nepal. You will need experience using electronic ledger systems.

As a senior accountant, you will oversee the work of a team of partner NGO accountants.

Senior Accountant is responsible for preparing and performing day to day accounts and administration and to support all aspects of overall financial management of Fem Nepal country office under the supervision of the Finance Manager and the Senior Program Manager. She/he is looking after for the financial management of General Administration (GA) any operations under the Project Agreements (PA) in Nepal. He/she maintains close liaison and coordination with other colleagues working in Felm Nepal.

Duty Station: Kathmandu, but certain amount of travelling to the Regional Office is required.

Contract Period: Initially for two years, with a probation period of three months.

Supervisor: Country Director; and Line Manger: Finance Manager & Senior Program Manager

Working Relations: Works under minimum supervision of the Country Director. Works in close coordination and collaboration with the Senior Program Manager, Finance Manager and Finance Coordinator in Dhangadi.

Description

Qualifications:

You should have sound analytical skills and advanced skills using Microsoft Excel. Additionally, you will need a thorough knowledge of accounting procedures, including preparing month-end reports and financial forecasts. You need a bachelor’s degree in accounting, but a master’s degree or extensive experience in the financial field is preferred for a senior accountant position.

Key Responsibilities:

Accountant in the issues mentioned below:

Maintenance of financial records:

Perform appropriate entries to bookkeeping
Keep account records always up to date
Prepare vouchers with appropriate authorisation and other markings with needed documents

Take care of the transactions

Prepare the cheques
Ensure that payments are paid timely

Keep record about the regular payments e.g., office rent, telephone, water and electricity bills, taxes so that they will not be forgotten

Financial reports

Prepare monthly finance report of Felm Nepal accounts and send it (in excel form and as a signed scanned version) to Felm Headquarters together with the Transaction ledger (from Money works), Bank Statement (scanned), Bank and Petty cash reconciliation (in excel form) and Bank cash balance (scanned). Reports must be in Helsinki by the 10th
Follow up that we keep in the limits of budget
Prepare yearly financial statement

Responsibility for AG petty cash

In the petty cash box, there should be always 50,000 NPR either as cash or vouchers
Keep petty cash book keeping always updated

Monthly payroll of the staff salaries

Prepare and document the payroll of the salary of AG staff
Ensure that all the salary related fees such as CIT or SSF, taxes are paid
Help running the payroll of Felm-Nepal staff
Prepare taxation of salaries

Take care of the procurement process according to the Felm Finance policy

Prepare, get approval and document the procurements
Ensure that there are 3 quotations for procurements over 300 Euros
Record the materials bought and document the valuable assets in the format as required by the Felm Finance policy

Keep and update the record of assets