FINANCE ASSISTANT.

Position Description Location: Edlib, Northwest Syria

Position Status: Full-time

Status: National

About Mercy Corps

Mercy Corps is powered by the belief that a better world is possible. To do this, we know our teams do their best work when they are diverse, and every team member feels that they belong. We welcome diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills so that we can be stronger and have long term impact.

Mercy Corps works in places of transition, where conflict, disaster, political upheaval, or economic collapse present opportunities to build more secure, productive, and just communities. Mercy Corps has been operational in Syria since 2012 providing humanitarian assistance as well as implementing peace and conflict, and agriculture and livelihoods programming with a focus on resilience, early recovery and social cohesion.

Department Summary

The Mercy Corps Finance Department is responsible for all financial functions in the office, including accounting, payments and banking, payroll, budgeting, financial reporting, and grant financial management and compliance. The Mercy Corps Finance Department ensures compliance with donor regulations as well as Mercy Corps’ internal policies and procedures. In its role as a support to the Program Department, the Finance Department provides timely reports and assistance to the Country Director and the Program team to ensure that financial resources are used efficiently and effectively.

General Position Summary

Working in the Finance Department under the direction of the Senior Finance and Compliance Manger, the Assistant for General Accounts will ensure the accuracy and completeness of Mercy Corps accounting records and will primary assist in managing the monthly accounting cycles.

Essential Job Responsibilities

Day-To-Day Accounting:

1. Ensure that all entries are booked into the Navigator system and check that all supporting are completed, accurate and safeguarded.
2. Support in Managing finance register and ensure all data and document provided are accurate and
3. Support Program and operations teams in following procedures necessary for finance
4. Responsible to follow up on all IMAs tracker and Bank matrix tracker, ensure that the data are
5. Maintaining proper filing system for all finance vouchers as per Mercy Corps standard procedures and

Monthly Accounting-Grant Cycle:

1. Assist in month end closing process for SY office by Prepare the monthly amortization for prepayment, Prepare and reconcile the monthly-accrued expenses.
2. Prepare intercompany account reconciliation, include clear the country ledger and submitting all needed documents
3. Assist in preparing the balance sheet and IMTA
4. Prepare monthly bank
5. Review monthly timesheets for both national and international staff and assist on entering it into the accounting system.
6. Preparing adjustment entries received from the BVA
7. Assist in the collecting the required documents related to any Donor
8. Monitor the weekly/monthly cash count for NES and PSP to ensure compliance with the cash management policy and maintain the proper documentation
9. Assist in Prepare HQ monthly

Yearly Accounting - and filing:

1. Assist in year-end closing process and all related financial reports to be submitted to MC HQ
2. Responsible of the monthly/yearly archiving process of all financial
3. Perform any other similar tasks that may be reasonable assigned by the line manager in any one of the components above

Ethics and Integrity

All Mercy Corps staff are expected to behave ethically and demonstrate highest integrity in their professional and personal life. Mercy Corps has zero tolerance to any form of fraud, corruption, abuse, harassment or exploitation. Any breach of our policies or misconduct will lead to disciplinary action or may lead to termination.

Security

Ensure data protection policies are adhered to, establishing security controls for software, hardware and archive beneficiary databases.

Organization Learning

As part of our commitment to organizational learning and in support of our understanding that learning organizations are more effective, efficient and relevant to the communities they serve, we expect all team members to commit 5% of their time to learning activities that benefit Mercy Corps as well as themselves.

Accountability to Beneficiaries

Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our beneficiaries and to international standards guiding international relief and development work, while actively engaging beneficiary communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.

Supervisory Responsibility: None Reports Directly To: Finance Manager

Works Directly With: Other Finance Team members, Program Manager/Officers, Operations Manager /Officers, HR/Admin Officers, Logistic/ Transport Officers

Knowledge and Experience

• One or More of accounting experience is required.
• A university degree in accounting/finance or relevant filed is required.
• Familiarity with computerized, double-entry accounting software.
• Advanced computer skills in MS Office programs, particularly Excel
• Good organizational skills as well as attention to details.
• Excellent oral and written English and Arabic skills.
• Arabic language skills a plus.

Success Factors

The ability to communicate effectively, respectfully and enthusiastically with community structures will be one of the position’s three success factors. The second will be the degree to which the SPEED specialist drives results (identifies and nurtures opportunities for public-private sector engagement to model sustainability of target value chains), producing scheduled outputs at the deadline and to expected quality. The third success factor will be the degree to which the specialist effectively gathers activity monitoring and evaluation data and utilizes data to inform activity implementation and program learning.

Team Efficiency and Effectiveness

Achieving our mission starts with how we build our team and collaborate. By bringing together individuals with a variety of experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives, we strengthen our ability to solve complex challenges and drive innovation. We foster a culture of trust and respect, where every team member is valued for their contributions, empowered to reach their full potential, and motivated to do their best work.

We recognize that building a strong and effective team is an ongoing process, and we remain committed to learning, improving, and growing together.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Mercy Corps is an equal opportunity employer that does not tolerate discrimination on any basis. We actively seek out diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills so that we can be collectively stronger and have sustained global impact. We are committed to providing an environment of respect and psychological safety where equal employment opportunities are available to all. We do not engage in or tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, color, gender identity, gender expression, religion, age, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, disability (including HIV/AIDS status), marital status, military veteran status or any other protected group in the locations where we work.

Safeguarding & Ethics

Mercy Corps is committed to ensuring that all individuals we come into contact with through our work, whether team members, community members, program participants or others, are treated with respect and dignity. We are committed to the core principles regarding prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse laid out by the UN Secretary General and IASC. We will not tolerate child abuse, sexual exploitation, abuse, or harassment by or of our team members. As part of our commitment to a safe and inclusive work environment, team members are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner, respect local laws and customs, and to adhere to Mercy Corps Code of Conduct Policies and values at all times. Team members are required to complete mandatory Code of Conduct e-learning courses upon hire and on an annual basis.

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