Accountant Jobs at Africa Community Development Media (ACDM)
Africa Community Development Media (ACDM)
The Africa Community Development Media (ACDM) is a communication for development organization established by development workers from southern and Eastern Africa with the sole mission of harnessing the power of media for positive social transformation by promoting democracy and good governance through use of multi -media communication strategies.
Through the use of media, ACDM seeks creative and new media to promote political, environmental, economic, social and cultural development with specific focus to social justice, gender equity, political participation, good governance, civic education and various human rights and other development issues.
ACDM manages an interactive website on development issues (a web based civil society information sharing portal), has an online radio that broadcasts news, spots and features on the public agenda.
Job Purpose:
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Prepare accurate and timely monthly management and project’s financial reports
- Review and make recommendations for revision of the finance policy manual
- Maintenance of the Fixed Assets Register
- Prepare accurate project and institutional budgets
- Maintain the office files and relevant documents including the filing of documents, physically and electronically
- Administration of core payroll services including processing monthly payroll and statutory and internal deductions, maintaining payroll records, issuing monthly pay slips
- Management of petty cash
- Ensure compliance with all the organization’s and partners/donors policies and procedures for financial and asset management
- Perform other logistical and administrative tasks within the organization’s scope of activities, as instructed by management
- Represent ACDM at appropriate meetings
- Develop and maintain close working relationships with all key stakeholders including government agencies, donors, bankers, among others
- Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in social sciences preferably with an Accounting Training
- Minimum of two years experience of working in a Finance Department
- Experience in Office administration and/or management
- Demonstrated ability to manage budgets and financial systems on a significant scale in development context
- Knowledge of computerised accounting
- Computer proficiency in Microsoft packages such as Word, Excel and Outlook
- Strong interpersonal skills, ability to interact effectively with staff, partners, donors and other relevant stakeholders.
Closing date for applications is on the 31st March 2013.
