Finance Officer

Background/IRC Summary: Background/IRC Summary: The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war and disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.

IRC has been working in Pakistan for approximately 40 years, managing and delivering large, complex programs to meet the needs in health, education, safeguarding, environmental health and livelihoods for displaced, poor and disaster affected communities. With the support of the federal and provincial governments, and generous donors like FCDO, ECHO, USAID, GAC and Australian Aid Agencies the IRC is currently implementing projects across the country.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Payments and Compliance:

•    Processing of Bank transactions/journal vouchers on daily basis, implementing of internal control procedures by keeping in view IRC policies and procedures and donor’s compliances.
•    Ensure that Bank book is updated on daily basis.
•    Update the payment log register on regular basis.
•    Check the cash reconciliations/cash count on regular intervals.
•    Keeping updated record of prepayments in respect to staff insurance, rents for all offices and their monthly amortization.
•    Preparation of monthly Severance, Health & Life Insurance Reports and its allocation of fund.
•    Processing of funds to field offices as per need basis.
•    Online Clearance of BVA payments
•    Processing of the local partners and CSOs payment on regular basis.

o   National and Hosting staff Payroll

•    Checking of monthly payroll to ensure accuracy.
•    Checked the monthly direct cost for charging in coordination with reporting Manger.
•    Ensure that all salaries and benefits are charged according to the cost allocation system.
•    Review and process EOBI within the stipulated time as mentioned in law.

o   Tax Management

•    Responsible for deductions of tax at source from staff salaries, supplies, services, and rental as per tax laws.
•    Ensure submission of withholding Income Tax as per income tax rules and regulations.
•    Submission of country office sales tax withholdings to Regional Tax office.
•    Coordination with Tax consultant on day-to-day matters and processing of payments as per opinion.

o   Audit and Internal/ External Communication:

•    Manage and support the internal/external audits.
•    Assist in Annual, Internal and project audits
•    Participate in professional development activities, as needed for request.
•    Liaison with banks officials on regular basis

o   Monthly closing:

•    Support Sr. Manager Finance in monthly closing.
•    Prepare the adjustments / recode entries when and where required.
•    Assist Sr. Manager finance in processing of support pools at the end of each month

o   Archiving:

•    Ensure that all vouchers are scanned and stored in such a way that these are easily accessible and retrievable when and where required.
•    Update folders on Box in finance folder.
•    P    Perform other duties, as necessary and/or as requested

o   The IRC Core Values and Commitments:

• The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way
• Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability.
• In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity Anti-Retaliation and Combating Trafficking in Persons.
•  IRC is committed to ensuring that IRC staff is suitable to work with children and have the knowledge they need to uphold and abide by the IRC’s Child Safeguarding Policy.
• Level of interaction with children: Frequent direct contact with children
•  IRC ensures that its staff must actively practice the roles and responsibilities related to client responsiveness, accountability to people in affected communities and must have competencies to solicits and listens to feedback and other’s perspectives, responds to feedback with understanding and sensitivity and takes appropriate decisions and makes changes to behavior or actions in response to feedback.
• IRC recognizes that gender equality is fundamental to the achievement of our interpersonal mission. As such, IRC is committed to the promotion of gender equality in all aspects of our operations and programs. Our interpersonal policies, procedures and actions demonstrate this dedication.

Women candidates and differently abled persons are highly encouraged to apply.