Job Description
The Organization
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) deliver research-based solutions that harness agricultural biodiversity and sustainably transform food systems to improve people’s lives. Alliance solutions address the global crises of malnutrition, climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation.
With novel partnerships, the Alliance generates evidence and mainstreams innovations to transform food systems and landscapes so that they sustain the planet, drive prosperity, and nourish people.
The Alliance is part of CGIAR, a global research partnership for a food-secure future.
About the position
Alliance is seeking to recruit an ASSISTANT I -ACCOUNTS to provide support to the finance Office.
Key Responsibilities
- Support in the registration of NBO transactions.
- Support in payment processing ensuring all payments are adequately supported, authorized, and registered into the system on a timely basis.
- Support in timely reconciliation of month end cash and bank balances between cashbooks/petty cash and banks statements.
- Assist in processing travel advance requests vouchers and legalizations from staff on completion of activities and any necessary communications/follow up required to close staff accounts.
- Support in the management and reconciliation of supplier accounts.
- Support in the management of mileage recovery journals.
- Assist during month end processes as may be assigned.
- Support Treasury unit as may be assigned.
- Filing management, document consolidation and scanning, printing & filing of documents in the digital archiving platform and Storeroom as appropriate.
- Assist in the management of the digital archiving platform and maintaining month end reconciliation of documents uploaded versus actual transactions for the month.
- Provide support in both external and internal audit processes.
- Complete and update weekly tracker/control files and follow up as necessary.
- Any other tasks as may be assigned.
Requirements
Qualifications and requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in economics, accounting, finance and related fields.
- At least two (2) years of relevant work experience in finance units in process-oriented / transactional activities preferably gained in an international organization.
- Proficiency in relevant software packages (Microsoft Office Suite).
- Knowledge of or experience with financial management software.
- Full professional proficiency of the English language, both written and spoken
- Solid interpersonal, communications and teamwork skills; courtesy and tact, and the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with people of different cultural and national backgrounds.
- Well-developed skills in personal organization, filing and priority setting, problem solving and accuracy.
- Strong client orientation and service approach
- Sound judgment and initiative; ability to work independently within the assigned area
- Working knowledge of other languages.
Benefits
Terms of employment
This position is a nationally recruited position based in Nairobi, Kenya