Project Accountant Job at Service, Health and Development for people living with HIV /AIDS (SHDEPHA+) - Career Opportunity in Tanzania
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Vacancy title:
Project Accountant

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Accounting , Category: Accounting & Finance ]

Jobs at:

Service, Health and Development for people living with HIV /AIDS (SHDEPHA+)

Deadline of this Job:
16 March 2021  

Duty Station:
Within Tanzania , Dar es Salaam , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, March 11, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed


JOB DETAILS:

Background
Service, Health and Development for people living with HIV /AIDS (SHDEPHA+) is a national non-governmental organization, registered on 21 November 1994 with registration number SO 8216, with the aim of mobilizing resources to help people living with HIV/AIDS and to fight the spread of the disease. Although originally focusing on people living with HIV/AIDS, over the years SHDEPHA+ has expanded beyond HIV/AIDS and related issues to other development interventions and now covers both infected and affected by HIV/AIDS with over 65 branches countrywide. Each branch of SHDEPHA+ works independently, developing, managing, and implementing its projects; though all branches share one constitution and registration. SHDEPHA+ Kahama, based in Kahama Municipal, is among the 65 branches, was launched in 1999 and started independent operations in 2002 has been working with both international and national donors, the local and central government and other stakeholders to work toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The organization works with the poor, key, and vulnerable groups including women, children, youth, people with special needs; and it gives special attention to the underserved and marginalized populations such as PLHV, FSW, and VAGYW SHDEPHA+ Kahama has been selected and reassigned to implement The Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) program as a sub recipient of AMREF Health Africa Tanzania ( as a Principal recipient (PR 2) for the Non State Actors) for the HIV/TB/Malaria/RSSH grant. The grant will be implemented for three years, from 2021 to 2023 in 4 regions of Tanzania (SHINYANGA, SIMIYU, TABORA and SINGIDA). The GF HIV/TB project implementation will be done in collaboration and guidance from the Tanzania Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children and the President’s Office Regions Authority and Local Government (PORALG). With this, SHDEPHA+ Kahama therefore is seeking competent, experienced, dynamic, and qualified candidates to fill the positions listed below:
Position Description:
The Project accountant will be supporting the finance department to coordinate and supervise financial activities of the project. S/he will provide day-to-day financial technical work of the project and strict adherences to financial regulations and grant compliance requirements during the implementation of the program. He/she shall ensure daily, weekly and quarterly financial reports are timely prepared and submitted as well as accounting reports and documents including cash books, payment vouchers, bank reconciliation statements, budget compliance reports and any other financial reports that may be required by Global Fund Project. .

Job Responsibilities
• Preparing financial documents such as invoices, bills, and accounts payable and receivable
• Completing purchase orders
• Managing payrolls
• Completing financial reports on a regular basis and providing information to the finance team.
• Assisting with budgets planning and reviews
• Completing bank reconciliations
• Entering financial information into appropriate software programs
• Managing day-to-day transactions.
• Recording Project expenditures and ensuring these expenses are within the set budget ceilings.
• Assisting the finance department and senior accounting staff members with various tasks, including preparing budgets, records, and statements
• Handling accruals and pre-payments
• Reviewing computer reports for accuracy and meticulously tracing errors back to their source
• Resolving errors in financial reports and correcting faulty reporting methods


Qualification and experience
• Holder of bachelor’s degree in accounting and finance or equivalent qualification from a recognized institution.
• Possession of accounting professional qualifications such as CPA or ACCA
• Experience of at least three (3) years in working with Donor funded projects
• Holder of a master Professional is an added advantage
• Must be computer literate
• Knowledgeable on accounting packages will be an added advantage.
• Numerical, confidential, detailed, proactive and team work skills required
• Strong interpersonal, oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and work within deadline
• Salary scale (2,000,000 – 2,500,000/=)


Job Qualifications : Not Specified


Education Requirements
Holder of bachelor’s degree in accounting and finance


Experience Requirements
(3) years


Work Hours: 8

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How to Apply
To be considered, your application must be received by 16.30 HOURS 16th MARCH 2021. The subject line of your job application email should mention the job position that you are applying as it appears in this advertisement. Failure to do that your application may not easily be retrieved. All correspondences and applications should be emailed to: recruitmentskahamashdepha@gmail.com 


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Job Info
Job Category: Accounting/ Finance jobs in Tanzania
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 16 March 2021
Duty Station: Dar es Salaam
Posted: 11-03-2021
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 11-03-2021
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 11-03-2065
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