Project Cashier Accountant

 Women Empowerment Action (WE-Action) is a feminist women's rights organization that has been operating across various regions in Ethiopia, including Amhara, Oromia, Southern Ethiopia, Central Ethiopia, and Tigray, for the past 30 years. WE-Action has four strategic goals: combating gender inequality, promoting gender-equitable and sustainable livelihoods, ensuring protection and lifesaving support, and achieving organizational excellence. WE-Action in collaboration Welthungerhilfe (WHH) is currently seeking a competent Project Cashier Accountant at Borena Field Office.

Note: - WE-Action has zero tolerance for sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) and any forms of Gender-Based Violence. 

Description of the Position

Position: - Project Cashier Accountant

Duty Station: Oromia Region, Borena Zone Yabelo town

Salary: As per the organization’s scale

Number of positions: 1 (One)

Employment Type: Full time

Duration: based on performance evaluation result and availability of budget

II.         General Duties and responsibilities

• Maintain and control the general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, expense reports and payroll.
• Record daily petty cash payments and prepare summary to request for replenishment before the end of petty cash fund.
• Reconcile and follow up of financial statements and bank reconciliations monthly.
• Record receipt of cash, cheques or bank transfer by identifying the name of the donors and Project
• Support the project admin & finance officer in budget planning, modification and forecasting.
• Ensure that the expenditure reported are reconciled with your accounting record.
• Ensure that the financial reports have the required documentation before sharing these reports;
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• Assist Admin & Finance Officer in the facilitation of project administration matters, such as procurement and close-out;

III.         Gender and Social Inclusion and Accountability

• Participate and contribute for organization gender and accountability work.
• Plan, implement and report gender equality, social inclusions and accountability activities in respective projects/programs.
• Work in collaboration with the Gender and Social Inclusion coordinator in designing and implementation of gender capacity building for field staffs etc…

IV.         Safeguarding

• Able to seek appropriate advice and report concerns, and feel confident that they have been understood.
• Understands local safeguarding structures and arrangements
• Practices in a manner that seeks to reduce the risk of abuse, harm or neglect
• Identifies and refers to appropriate services any other associated persons including careers, family members and children at risk
• Able to document safeguarding concerns, and maintain appropriate record-keeping, recording the wishes and views of the adult or child at risk, differentiating between fact and opinion etc…
• V.         Accountability and transparency
• Ensure that communications and products of WE-Action are visible in project area
• Adhere to the organization accountability framework; communicate for employees for effective implementations.
• Implement WE- Action compliances to Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS) and develop communities’ capacity accordingly.
• Create awareness to community, target groups and peers on WE-Actions compliant Handling Mechanisms during weekly, monthly, and quarterly dialogue sessions
• Participate in organizational conversations to discuss on cross cutting issues such as gender, HIV, safeguarding, social inclusion etc…
• Gather feedback and complaints on any concerns of the project implementation and organization and formally document and report back to field offices with a confidential and secure manner
• Respond in a timely manner to safeguarding concerns to ensure participants are kept safe from harm etc…