Finance Assistant

The Finance Assistant provides administrative and technical support in the payment process for the Moldova Office, ensuring adherence to NRC financial policies and donor requirements. The role involves preparing payments, maintaining financial records, supporting audits, and reviewing partner financial reports.

Responsibilities

• Prepare bank payments in line with provided vouchers for country and area offices payments
• Initiate the approval process for payments from the payment requester, Finance verification and budget holders
• Book the payments on accounting system by closing the pending invoices
• Prepare booking post-backs for the payments and cashbox using NRC tools
• Maintain the payments tracking sheet
• Scan and file all the Finance payment supporting documents (hard and soft copies), ensuring they are complete, signed and filed in the proper location, in both half and soft form according to NRC SSD policy
• Act as a focal point for submission of respective documents to the accounting service provider on a timely manner
• Assist with internal and external financial audits and compliance reviews process
• Review partner financial reports (monthly, quarterly)
• Prepare financial verification report in line with NRC partnership policy and respective annexes
• Ensure all supporting documents are submitted in an accurate manner to be readable and traceable
• Communicate with partner representative in case of comments/questions

Requirements

• Preferred Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting
• Basic knowledge in Finance in a humanitarian/recovery context
• Knowledge in supporting documents required for different kind of payments
• Fluency in Romanian language
• Intermediate in English language
• Knowledge in excel and other Microsoft office software
• Legal right to work in Moldova; no work permits or visa sponsorships provided

Skills

• Finance Knowledge
• Accounting
• Payment Processing
• Financial Record Keeping
• Audit Support
• Partner Financial Reporting Review
• Excel
• Microsoft Office Suite

Languages

Romanian, English