Financial Management Specialist

Job responsibilities

• Report to Finance and Administration Finance Manager

• Act as payment authority including signing of cheques, payment orders and EFTs.

• Review and approval of financial statements and ensuring they are submitted to relevant authorities in good time.

• Attending management meetings and advising management on financial matters.

• Review expenditure plans

• Implementation of audit recommendations.

• Monitor commitments, expenditures, appropriations, accounts receivables and revenues within their departments and take corrective action where necessary.

• Provide guidance on the organization and training of staff with financial responsibilities within their departments

• Ensure that financial manuals, policies, instructions and circular letters are kept current and that each officer is made aware of their existence.

• Ensure the safekeeping of cash and other assets

• Ensure effective risk management and internal controls are put in place within the finance departments of the public entity.

• Review of bank reconciliations.

• Perform other financial duties assigned by CBM.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance with CPA/CPFA/CPFM intermediate level /ACCA Foundation Level (Completion of ACCA Applied Skills papers) with three (3) years of relevant working experience

  3 Years of relevant experience

• Master’s Degree in Accounting, Finance with CPA/CPFA/CPFM intermediate level /ACCA Foundation Level (Completion of ACCA Applied Skills papers) with one (1) year of relevant working experience.

  1 Years of relevant experience

• Post Graduate Degree in PFM with two (2) years of relevant working experience is eligible.

  2 Years of relevant experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in any other field with API/PFM Certificate, with three (3) years of relevant working experience is eligible.

  3 Years of relevant experience

Required certificates

• Having CPA or CPA Intermediate level, CIA/CPFA/CPFM or ACCA Part1

Required competencies and key technical skills

• Resource management skills

• Problem solving skills

• Decision making skills

• Networking skills

• Leadership skills

• Knowledge of Standards and frameworks applied in Public Sector such as International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS); IFRSs

• Knowledge of the legal and institutional framework of Rwanda’s public finance management

• Proficiency in financial management systems and knowledge of the Rwanda’s public finance management

• Mentoring and coaching skills

• Time management skills

• Risk management skills

• Performance management skills

• Results oriented

• Digital literacy skills

• Fluency in Kinyarwanda, English and/ or French. Knowledge of all is an added advantage

• Analytical skills;