Temporary Finance Officer, REACH Malaria

Job description

PATH is a global nonprofit dedicated to achieving health equity. With more than 40 years of experience forging multisector partnerships and with expertise in science, economics, technology, advocacy, and dozens of other specialties, PATH develops and scales up innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing health challenges.

PATH seeks One Temporary Finance Officer for the US Department of State (DOS) funded Reaching every at-risk community and household with malaria services (REACH Malaria) global project. REACH aims to provide implementation support services and technical assistance to countries to accelerate progress in comprehensive delivery of facility and community-based malaria services, including malaria case management, prevention of malaria in pregnancy (MiP), health systems strengthening, data collection and use for service delivery, and other malaria prevention interventions. REACH will also support maternal newborn and child health (MNCH) interventions.

PATH seeks the services of a Temporary Finance Officer who will provide finance, and operations support to the Senior Finance and Awards Manager under this project.

*Please note that the contract duration is through December 31, 2026.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Help to process program advances for project activities.
• Review and process invoices from vendors in the financial system on time.
• Administer funds and maintain all documentation for assigned field activities including managing cash disbursements to meetings, workshops, and field work exercise participants.
• Review receivable accounts (program advances for workshops, trainings, and meetings and staff advances) regularly and ensure that the accounts in question are cleared on time. Ensure that no additional advances are made to the same staff before previous advances are reconciled. Follow up with program staff on all outstanding program advances
• Review payables accounts (including prepayments to vendors).
• Help provincial teams in ensuring that the field staff get documents required for contracting services for conferencing and trainings. Review the procurements for accuracy before they are processed in the financial system.
• Ensure that all financial activities are conducted with the approval of appropriate PATH designees for expense approval and technical oversight.
• Process transactions in the financial system (Business World) on time and ensure that transactions are successfully approved in the workflow.
• Ensure that all the transaction documentations are complete, accurate, and comply with applicable polices and internal procedures.
• Review fuel reconciliations submitted by the Driver/Logisticians before payments are processed in the financial system.
• Support the project team with close out in the final year of the project.
• Ensure that inventory is updated.
• Any other duties assigned by the supervisor.

Qualifications, Experience and Skills

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in accounting, ACCA II, CIMA II, ZICA II or equivalent.

• Must be currently registered member of ZICA.

• Minimum of three (03) years of experience working for an international NGO.
• Demonstrated strong finance and organizational skills.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills.
• Strong interpersonal and critical thinking skills.
• Excellent organization, attention to detail, and ability to appropriately prioritize competing tasks.
• Effective time management and able to work under time pressure.
• Ability to work with diverse vendors and stakeholders.
• Capacity to collaborate and communicate effectively with team members.
• Proficient in working with MS office computer programs.
• Must have legal authorization to work in Zambia.