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Assistant Accountant job at World Vision

Job Description

About the Organization:

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.
Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

World Vision International is an ecumenical Christian humanitarian aid, development, and advocacy organization. It was founded in 1950 by Robert Pierce as a service organization to provide care for children in Korea. In 1975, emergency and advocacy work was added to World Vision's objectives.

Organization:

Duties and Responsibilities

  • Prepare and file supporting documents for all accounting transactions in compliance with WVU & WVI financial policies and guidelines and coordinate banking issues

  • Provide grants and financial technical support to the response/grants program staff including on-the-job training in order to maintain accurate and reliable financial information

  • Participate in the preparation of monthly bank reconciliation with the support of the Response Finance Manager

  • Manage staff travel and business advances by ensuring accuracy, authenticity, completeness, and timely retirement of advances and monthly Account Allocation in SUN


  • Prepare payment vouchers (using Voucher Interface) and allocate various response and grants expenses to different cost centers/grants in compliance with WV Cost Allocation Methodologies and donor requirements and managing petty cash

  • Participate in the audit processes of the projects, particularly facilitating audit team members’ easy access to the project financial records

  • Code & Monitor budgets and also participate in the preparation of different project reports

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  3. Set up your profile using the Profile Creation Wizard

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  5. Go to the Jobs tab

  6. Search for “Accountant"

  7. Read job description

  8. Click Apply to submit your application

  9. Monitor updates via My Applications to avoid missing interview notices or extra document requests

World Vision
  • Degree in Business Administration/Commerce-with accounting option.

  • Excellent spoken and written command of English.

  • Good communication, writing, and facilitation;

  • Track record demonstrating high integrity, innovativeness, creativity, reliability, and dependability


  • Excellent computer application skills in Microsoft packages (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint);

  • Team player, Self-motivator, able to work with limited supervision;

  • Must be a committed Christian, able to stand above denominational diversities.

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9 May 2024

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9 May 2024

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