Program Background Summary: The USAID-funded Pakistan Reading Project (PRP), implemented by the International Rescue Committee and its partners, Creative Associates International, World Learning, and Institute of Rural Management, is working with the objective to support the provincial and regional departments of education throughout Pakistan to improve the reading skills of children in grades one and two. The project aims to achieve this goal through three distinct but interrelated components that work in synergy to affect the quality of early grade education: improved classroom learning environment for reading, improved policies and systems for reading, and community based support for reading in Pakistan.
Job Overview/Summary
The incumbent is responsible for ensuring that the day-to-day accounting operations and financial management functions are performed in accordance with IRC and field office policy and procedures. Specific responsibilities within each functional area are as follows:
Major Responsibilities:
· Assist Financial Controller in managing day to day affairs of Finance department including meeting required reporting deadlines to HQ and USAID in a timely manner.
· Preparation of Dashboard, Accruals on Quarterly basis and any other donor related report
· Prepare operating budget in assistance with budget holders for PRP project. Update it for monitoring and also finalize the monthly projections for online BVA, CTR against monthly cash withdraws.
· Prepare annual budgetary forecasts and its subsequent revisions in coordination with the budget holders
· Finalize online monthly BVA reports and hold regular meetings with budget holders.
· Coordinate with supply chain for submission of GST exemption cases.
· Prepare annual foreign taxes/VAT reporting by consolidating data received from all partners.
Job Requirements: Education: Masters degree in Accounting/Business Administration/Commerce/Finance or certificate in professional accounting such as CA/ACMA/ACCA (Inter).
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Position Reports to: Finance Controller
Position directly supervises: Finance Manager, Sr. Finance officer,Finance officer and Finance assistant
The USAID-funded Pakistan Reading Project, implemented by the International Rescue Committee and its partners (Creative Associates International, World Learning, and Institute of Rural Management), is a seven-year project (2013-2020) with the objective to support the provincial and regional departments of education throughout Pakistan to improve reading skills of 1.3 million children in grades one and two. The project will achieve this goal through three distinct but interrelated components that will work in synergy to affect the quality of early grade education: Improved classroom learning environment for reading, Improved policies and systems for reading, and Improved community based support for reading in Pakistan.