Felm-Nepal announces vacancy for Senior Accountant, Lalitpur. Interested candidates can apply for the job. Read the full article below for the job details.

Qualifications:

You should have sound analytical skills and advanced skills using Microsoft Excel. Additionally, you will need a thorough knowledge of accounting procedures, including preparing month-end reports and financial forecasts. You need a bachelor’s degree in accounting, but a master’s degree or extensive experience in the financial field is preferred for a senior accountant position.

Key Responsibilities:

Accountant in the issues mentioned below:

Maintenance of financial records:

• Perform appropriate entries to bookkeeping
• Keep account records always up to date
• Prepare vouchers with appropriate authorisation and other markings with needed documents

Take care of the transactions

• Prepare the cheques
• Ensure that payments are paid timely

Keep record about the regular payments e.g., office rent, telephone, water and electricity bills, taxes so that they will not be forgotten

Financial reports

• Prepare monthly finance report of Felm Nepal accounts and send it (in excel form and as a signed scanned version) to Felm Headquarters together with the Transaction ledger (from Money works), Bank Statement (scanned), Bank and Petty cash reconciliation (in excel form) and Bank cash balance (scanned). Reports must be in Helsinki by the 10th
• Follow up that we keep in the limits of budget
• Prepare yearly financial statement

Responsibility for AG petty cash

• In the petty cash box, there should be always 50,000 NPR either as cash or vouchers
• Keep petty cash book keeping always updated

Monthly payroll of the staff salaries

• Prepare and document the payroll of the salary of AG staff
• Ensure that all the salary related fees such as CIT or SSF, taxes are paid
• Help running the payroll of Felm-Nepal staff
• Prepare taxation of salaries

Take care of the procurement process according to the Felm Finance policy

• Prepare, get approval and document the procurements 
• Ensure that there are 3 quotations for procurements over 300 Euros
• Record the materials bought and document the valuable assets in the format as required by the Felm Finance policy 

Keep and update the record of assets

• Support in carrying out the annual inventory of assist 

Advances

• Prepare the documents for advances
• Take care that advances are appropriately accepted
• Take care that advances are reconciled accordingly as required by the rules

Help Regional director for preparing the budget

AG vehicles (car and motorcycle)

• Record the vehicle income and expenditure
• Take care that fees for the private use of AG vehicle are paid monthly

External audit

• Help the auditor to fulfil his task

Record files

• Keep the record files in order and safe place
• Ensure that records are kept according to the time order  

Take care of the tax payment and tax clearances of office and expatriates

Partners

• Ensure that partners get the transferred money and the documentation is correct

Keeping the Working hour record and holiday record of the GA staff.

Take care of the daily routines of Development Cooperation finance management during the holidays of the Finance and Admin officer

Quality

• Promote the transparency and good financial management
• Take care that the Finance policy of Felm Nepal is followed

Perform the other tasks as needed assigned by the Regional Director

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Deadline: 10th Feb, 2022