Finance (Accounting) Manager

About the job

The Accounting Manager will lead the organization’s Accounting sub-unit, ensuring compliance with Ukrainian legislation and reporting requirements. This pivotal role involves developing and implementing policies and standard operating procedures, providing on-the-job support, and building capacity of the project and support staff. The Accounting Manager will structure the team’s tasks for maximum efficiency. Managing a team of 3 Accountants at the country office, the Accounting Manager and team will provide technical support to Accountants at Area and Base offices across Ukraine.

Your main duties and responsibilities will be:

• Develop standard operating procedures (SOPs), standard tools, templates, and guidance documents in cooperation with managers to streamline accounting processes and minimum requirements
• Support the development of an accounting policy and compliance tools
• Create and maintain a checklist of the minimum supporting documents required to comply with Ukrainian legislation, updating it as new activities are identified.
• Ensure timely delivery of accounting reports to fiscal bodies and other stakeholders.
• Maintain compliance with all relevant statutory and financial obligations, including taxes.
• Develop a systematic approach to keep relevant staff informed of updates and changes to Ukrainian legislation.
• Review and revise the roles and responsibilities of the country and area office accounting teams to ensure effective accounting and compliance support.
• Provide technical support to the decentralization process by ensuring the area and base office accountants have the tools and knowledge to perform tasks independently.
• Conduct training sessions and workshops on accounting compliance and minimum requirements
• Monthly accounting briefings to relevant Manager.
• Maintain a positive, collaborative, and enabling work environment
• Any other tasks assigned by the line manager

About you

To be successful in this role we expect you to be a team player for our finance team. We are looking for active and attentive to details colleague. You will need to work with a big volume of information and to have experience in Excel to sort and analyze them. Moreover, we also expect the following:

Required

• Master’s degree in Finance/Accounting or Audit
• Minimum 5 years of working experience in accounting management
• Previous experience as an Accountant for an NGO is preferable
• Advanced proficiency in Ms Office and BAF
• Advanced professional proficiency in English

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