Finance Specialist at Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture

USAID/Rwanda Hinga Wunguke Activity

Finance Specialist

CNFA

CNFA is a not-for-profit organization based in Washington, D.C., dedicated to stimulating economic growth in the agricultural sector by nurturing entrepreneurship, private enterprise, and market linkages. CNFA specializes in fostering private sector investments in training, new technologies and marketing to increase the overall competitiveness of agricultural value chains and rural development, to increase people’s incomes, to develop skills in the rural workforce, and to facilitate exports.

Program Description USAID/Rwanda Hinga Wunguke Activity

The purpose of the Hinga Wunguke Activity is to support increased agriculture productivity and income, access to finance and markets, and access and consumption of nutritious food products in Rwanda, while increasing the resilience of the agriculture and food systems to the changing climate. To achieve this goal, the Activity will sustainably increase agricultural productivity, increase access to finance for farmers and agribusinesses, improve producers’ market outcomes, and strengthen the enabling environment to foster market-driven outcomes in agriculture.

Position Description

Under the supervision of Senior Accountant, the Finance Specialist will support the preparation of the program’s daily expenditures, initiating payments and drafting the financial and operations related reports. The incumbent will also receive related procurement/payments requests, in collaboration with programs team, initiate the request for payments, analyze them and issue related payment voucher. Additionally, the Finance Specialist will support the Finance team to maintain the payment tracker.

Duties and Responsibilities

The main duties of the Finance Specialist are:

Finance related tasks:

• Review all payments requests including vendors invoices and internal payments requests.
• Initiate the day-to-day payments activities in compliance with CNFA policies and procedures and with Rwandan laws, including but not limited to: Making proper payment entries to the general ledger in accordance with the organization’s and established accounting principles;
• Support the account to prepare mandatory reports as required and respond to inquiries as necessary.
• Support the team in preparation of tax calculations and other remittances, payments and prepare the tax refunds request from the tax authority in Rwanda.
• Manage daily petty cash payments and cash reconciliation, including verifying support documentation; prepare petty cash replenishment/request documents.
• Perform any other related tasks assigned by supervisor.
• Promote zero tolerance for corruption and misappropriation of all project related resources 
• Perform any other relevant duties assigned by the supervisor

Qualifications

• Minimum of Bachelors’ degree required in Accounting, Finance, or a relevant field.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in accounting, or Administration of program with at least 3 years within the International Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) sector;
• Experience working on USAID or other donor-funded programs desired;
• Proficiency in Excel and other relevant accounting software.
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to work in fast-paced environment.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Fluency in English.
• Strong attention to details and high degree of integrity, accountability, energy and flexibility.

All interested and qualified Candidate can send their application (motivation letter, updated CV, certificates and references) documents to: hingawunguke@cnfarwanda.org not later than 31^st July 2024 at 6:00 PM.  Please quote the job title in the subject (Finance Specialist)

The hiring team will review applications on rolling basis and the interviews for the selected candidates can be scheduled as soon the best candidates are identified. Only selected candidates will be contacted.