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Job Title: Finance Assistant

Job location: Dar es Salaam

Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)

 

Concerning the Role:

For GAIN Tanzania, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is looking for a Finance Assistant to help with internal control, administration, and financial services. The position will be available for a fixed term contract of two years, contingent on funding availability. Your base of operations will be the GAIN office in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

The Finance Assistant will support the GAIN Tanzania office’s successful operations management in compliance with GAIN rules and Tanzania legislation, reporting to the Finance and Administration Manager. All facets of bookkeeping and accounting, procurement support asset tracking and control, efficient processing of financial reports in a timely, accurate, pertinent, and educational way, as well as general administration or operations tasks, will fall within your purview.

Along with supporting the Country Director and local team in upholding positive relationships with external stakeholders like government regulatory bodies, service providers, and consultants, you will also be in charge of making sure that external requirements—such as local laws and regulations, donor, partner, service provider, and vendor contractual obligations—are met.

Principal Accountabilities comprise:

• Ensuring that every payment request is full and accompanied by the required paperwork.
• Preparing the necessary supporting documentation, such as travel advances and subcontractor/staff advances, in accordance with GAIN rules and procedures in order to receive payments.
• Coordinating with regional tax experts to manage the TRA, NSSF, WCF, and other portals and to guarantee adherence to government regulations.
• Overseeing the office’s petty cash transactions, including the payment and receipt of petty cash, its income, its reconciliation, and the approval of the administrative assistant’s petty cash claims.
• Making certain that financial transactions are promptly and in compliance with GAIN requirements recorded.
• Following GAIN rules for receivables and payables will guarantee prompt and accurate vendor payments.
• Helping to prepare financial reports for all national projects, participating in project QUAD meetings, and forecasting and budgeting.
• Ensuring that office space and equipment, including furniture and photocopying machines, are properly maintained and tended to in order to give employees the greatest physical environment possible in which to perform their jobs.
• Conducting due diligence on and assessing possible suppliers, as well as keeping cordial connections with current vendors and suppliers.
• Supervising all team members’ reporting of travel and expenses, including processing claim forms and obtaining all required permissions for payment.

Concerning You:

The ideal applicant will have previous experience in a similar capacity and in accounting or a related discipline. It would be advantageous for candidates to have prior experience working on projects funded by many donors.

Strong interpersonal and communication skills, as well as written and spoken English competence, are required of the postholder. You should also have a high degree of flexibility, be ready to work periodically outside of usual business hours, and be prepared to travel far from home when necessary.

A nationally recognized degree in accounting and/or finance from a university, or a certificate recognized locally in accounting, taxation, business administration, or a comparable discipline. You’ll have solid working knowledge of accounting programs like Sage and Serenic Navision and be proficient with Microsoft Office.

Concerning Our Offer:

Based on experience, the starting gross compensation range for this position is between USD 13,764 and USD 15,768 annually.

Subject to strong performance, GAIN offers an equitable and attractive wage structure with yearly advancement possibilities. GAIN also provides a competitive pension plan, competitive insurance coverage, including health, travel, and life assurance, and a total of 37 days of vacation time annually (including yearly leave, public holidays, and additional office closure days).

Because we care about our employees’ health, especially in these trying times, we have created a wellness program that offers flexible work schedules, more leave options, wellbeing days, mindfulness coaching, and private, independent counseling.

Additionally, GAIN is very committed to professional growth. We are dedicated to giving you opportunities through internal recruiting, secondments, and promotions, and we will assist you in developing professionally through both official and informal training. All of this is provided in a cooperative and encouraging setting.

Concerning GAIN:

In an effort to alleviate the suffering that hunger causes in people, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), a foundation with its headquarters in Switzerland, was established at the UN in 2002. A decade of progress has been reversed as malnutrition and famine have gotten much worse since 2019 due to COVID19, the conflict in Ukraine, and climate change. The need to alter our food systems in order to buck these trends is becoming increasingly apparent.

The goal of GAIN’s strategy is to change the food system so that everyone, especially the most shock-prone, can obtain healthier diets from sustainable food systems. Our goals are to increase 25 million people’s access to healthier diets, increase 1.5 billion people’s access to nutritionally upgraded staple foods, and assist good changes to the food systems of ten nations by 2027. This is a challenging and intricate task, and the only way to accomplish it is to collaborate with national and international partners that include corporations, governments, and civil society organizations. These objectives and the methods by which they will be attained expand upon our two decades of experience improving people’s lives via better nutrition via coordinated action and successful legislative change.

Our Environment and Work Culture:

With our global hybrid working strategy, we offer a flexible work environment with a mix of office and home working options. This promotes a positive work-life balance among our employees, boosts employee motivation, enhances their wellness, and enhances output.

As mentioned in our job ads, all of our positions are based in one or more of GAIN’s authorized offices. The chosen applicants will be stationed in one of GAIN’s national offices and will be required to possess the legal right to reside and work within a reasonable commute of the relevant city or cities as stated in the job advertisement. Please be aware that GAIN does not support relocations or work permits.

During or after the hiring process, GAIN retains the right to revoke a job offer to applicants who are deemed ineligible for the reasons listed above.

Please refer to the job description that is attached for more specific details. Apply now by clicking the “Apply Now” link.

To be eligible to apply for this position, candidates must be based in the Dar es Salaam, Tanzania region and hold the legal right to live and work there.

This advertisement expires on June 18, 2024. We encourage early applications. In the event that we get qualified applicants before the closing date, GAIN retains the right to end this advertisement early.

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition is dedicated to fostering an inclusive atmosphere that values diversity and equitable opportunities for all. We are excited to have talented and dedicated individuals from various backgrounds apply, reflecting the varied communities we work in. This is because we want our organization to reflect the diversity of our society at every level.

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