Finance Assistant – Ogoja

Save the Children is recruiting a Finance Assistant to support financial-management processes in its Ogoja Field Office.

Key responsibilities include:

• Process approved financial transactions, payment requests and expense claims.
• Prepare cheques and submit them to authorised signatories.
• Conduct bank reconciliations and other bank-related activities.
• Support payments to programme participants and beneficiaries.
• Maintain petty cash, manual cashbooks and cash-count records.
• Reconcile and match transactions on the financial system.
• Electronically archive payment vouchers, journal vouchers and supporting documents.
• Maintain complete, labelled and audit-ready financial files.
• Monitor document retrieval and return records.
• Assist with account reconciliation, month-end processes and finance administration.
• Ensure transactions comply with organisational and donor requirements.

Requirements:

• HND, BSc or BCom in Accounting.
• ACA, CNA, CITN or another professional qualification is an advantage.
• Minimum of one year of finance or accounting experience.
• NGO or international-development experience.
• Familiarity with Agresso FMS and ProSave.
• Strong Microsoft Excel, record-keeping, filing and organisational skills.
• Ability to maintain accuracy and meet deadlines under pressure.

Contract details:

• Full-time position.
• Grade 5.
• Six-month contract.
• Reports to the Finance Officer.

The role has Level 3 child-safeguarding responsibilities. Save the Children conducts background checks and applies equal-opportunity, anti-harassment, health and safeguarding policies.