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• VVOB – education for development is an international non-profit organisation with over 40 years’ experience in strengthening the quality of education systems in Africa, Asia and South America in close partnership with ministries of education and their institutions. Our head office is based in Brussels, Belgium.
• We implement our programmes and projects with one shared passion: to ensure the improvement of quality education. The ACSL team works toward this goal by providing Technical Support to governmental and other education actors across Africa. In doing so, we ensure capacity building of governmental and other education actors.
• Do you share our ambition to ensure that learners around the world can enjoy their fundamental human right to quality education, without exception? Are you convinced as well that quality education guarantees equal opportunities for everyone and is the key to a better world?
• We are looking for a Finance Officer for the African Centre for School Leadership (ACSL) who will operate from our office in Nairobi, Kenya. Do you want to take on this challenge? Then continue reading!

• As a Finance officer, in the African Centre for School Leadership (ACSL), you contribute to this ambition and these values by taking initiative whenever necessary to ensure the implementation of high-quality management of financial resources at the VVOB country office
• The Finance Officer reports to the Operations Manager. You are part of and work closely together with members of the operations team under the ACSL programme. Furthermore, you work closely together with the other departments in your country

• You provide accounting and administrative support to ACSL programmes, including bookkeeping, reconciliations and reporting.
•     You regularly book invoices and journals to the accounting system (Navision)
• You make timely payments to staff, partners and service providers (including Revenue Authority) using online banking platforms (EFT and mobile money) and review the cash position of local bank accounts.
•   You support monthly bank, cash and supplier reconciliation processes.
• You administer workshop budgets and support the operations teams with contract management and inventory asset lists.
• You facilitate continuous improvement of VVOB’s financial & accounting processes and knowledge sharing.

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