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GIZ Vacancy: Accounting Project Assistant, Jakarta

The Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is a German international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations. GIZ is commissioned by Bundesministerium für Umwelt (BMU) to set up a Strategic Partnership for Supported NAMAs and Climate Finance which Support the Indonesia Climate Change Trust Fund  (BMU-ICCTF) and support for Green Economy and Locally Appropriate Mitigation Actions in Indonesia (GE-LAMA-I). These projects are looking for:

Accounting Project Assistant

A.      Responsibilities
The accounting assistant is responsible for
§  seeing that the service is provided correctly and in accordance with GIZ financial management and accounting procedures
§  cash Book of the project
§  following up Monthly Error Sheets

The accounting assistant performs the following tasks:

B.       Tasks
1.        Financial services
The accounting assistant
§  collects and prepares proper receipts
§  records daily transactions to the cash book
§  controls the remaining balance at cash on hand
§  maintains the filing for financial records confidentially
§  cash management related to inflow and outflow of money from the bank, its administrative procedures, and reconciliation
§  monthly financial reporting, monitoring, and follow up issues settlement related to account payables and receivables
§  review the classification of all vouchers/receipts according to completeness and to cost centers/cost category/legal as sent by the projects and corrects them if required
§  follow up monthly error sheets
§  calculates and verifies travel expenses on official journey for project staff/consultant/counterpart (national)



2.        Other duties/additional tasks
The accounting assistant
§  supports the finance officer as requested and in line with workload of daily tasks
§  reports all problems with financial administration and compliance without delay
§  responsible for filing in accordance with GIZ rules (O&R)
§  performs other duties and tasks at the request of management
§  photocopies and scans documents as needed


C.      Required qualifications, competences and experience
Qualifications
§  certificate/diploma or comparable qualification from a commercial academy (accounting)

Professional experience
§  at least 1-3 years’ professional experience in a comparable position

Other knowledge, additional competences
§  in-depth knowledge of accounting software
§  good working knowledge of ITC technologies (related software, phone, fax, email, the internet) and computer applications (e.g. MS Office)
§  very good knowledge of the European language widely used in the country, ideally a knowledge of German
§  willingness to upskill as required by the tasks to be performed – corresponding measures are agreed with management


Duty Station : Jakarta

Interested candidate should submit the application letter, CV with latest photograph and list of references (file size is not more than 200 kb) to recruitment@paklim.org by 10th February 2014.   Please indicate your application by putting the following code in the subject line: APA-ICCTF