BACKGROUND

African Parks is a non-profit conservation organisation that takes on responsibility for the long-term management of protected areas in partnership with governments and local communities. African Parks manages 24 protected areas in 13 countries covering over 20 million hectares. In South Sudan, African Parks supports the management of the Great Nile Migration Landscape (GNML), centred around Badingilo National Park, Boma National Park, and the Jonglei landscape. Covering more than 120,000 km², the landscape supports the world’s largest remaining terrestrial mammal migration and is of major ecological importance regionally and globally.

JOB OVERVIEW

The Successful candidate will provide practical support to the parks and ensure that field cash management is in line with African Parks’ SOPs and best practices. He is expected to be knowledgeable in accounting & finance and provide practical and compliant solutions to in his day-to-day work. As a team player, you are expected to build the capacity of the cashiers and enhance good performance. You will spend more of your time in BOR office though expected to go to the FOBs too in the nearest future.

MAIN ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ensure that the Park adheres to the best practices of financial management stipulated in AP’s SOPs.
• Timely booking of purchase invoices, bank and petty cash transactions in the accounting ERP (Navision).
• Ensure that the field finance staff are supported with petty cash management and other technical aspects of their work.
• Facilitate payment and reconciliation of taxes.
• Ensure the timely reconciliation of funds accounts and address unreconciling issues in real-time.
• Ensures timely reconciliation of the inter-company account between the two Parks.
• Timely reconciliation of cash in transit accounts.
• Update monthly foreign exchange rate in the accounting ERP.
• Ensure cash counts are correct and differences investigated and addressed.
• Reviews operations advance and ensure their timely settlement.
• Ensure field staff salaries are reconciled before dispatch.
• Staff advance reconciliation and clearance.
• Creation of vendor accounts in the accounting ERP according to the naming protocol.
• Support with updating timesheets for field support for review, approval and archiving.
• Ensure sufficiency of field petty cash and facilitate the timely replenishment and dispatch to the field.
• Provide support during internal and external audits by ensuring that vouchers sampled are timely availed.
• Ensure vouchers are filed and folders clearly indexed.
• Ensure balance sheet accounts are reviewed and reconciled at the end of every month.
• Identify learning gaps of the direct reports and develop an actionable practical learning session(s).
• Any other finance related duties assigned.

EDUCATION AND SKILLS

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting/finance.
• At least 3 years of practical work experience in finance and accounting with the use of accounting ERPs.
• Knowledge of Navision is an added advantage.
• Accounting Financial Management Analysis.
• Problem solving.
• Attention to details.
• Ability to mentor/coach.
• Time management.