Accountant

About Ruwad Houkouk (FR)
Ruwad Houkouk FR, is working towards:
1) Promoting the protection of stateless individuals by advocating for legal reforms and enactment of a comprehensive Nationality law, and modernizing the Personal Status Records law, and initiating a new law on Personal Status;
2) Strengthening access to justice for the refugees and stateless community living in remote rural areas.
Both components complement each other and should lead to improve the humanitarian aspects of this population in terms of right too identity and to basic fundamental rights such as education, health, and work.
Project objectives:

To reduce and prevent statelessness and promote legal protection for refugees and stateless persons in Lebanon. 
Improve access to legal protection for refugees and stateless persons through direct provision of services, networking and monitoring of relevant actors, including public institutions.

Summary:

The Accountant is responsible for maintaining the budget, recording and reflecting fully, accurately, clearly and in a timely manner the funds that are allocated and the disbursements made to support project implementation, in accordance with the approved documents and the liquidation of expenditures on quarterly basis as well as upon project termination. The Accountant will ensure to coordinate with FR management and use the International & Legal Accounting & Financial Standards and procedures.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible over all accounting and financial operations on daily basis, journal entry, financial statements & reports (balance sheet, ledgers, Trail balance...)
• to record all transaction over the Accounting software
• Carries out payments of all regular area office expenses such as office rental, telephone bills, advances, etc.
• Carries out the calculation of the payroll, for all contractors.
• Maintains payee statement records for all suppliers.
• Controls procedures and processes for Accounting, Finance, Inventory and payroll to be documented and revised upon any amendment sort by top management.
• Manages banking transactions related to the project, including preparing bank transfer requests, submitting them to the bank, monitoring transfers and preparing monthly bank reconciliation statements and reporting.
• Ensures a regular monitoring of the bank account(s).
• Manage taxes and legal declaration, payroll, NSSF, and legal deadlines...
• Monitor cash flow and budget vs actual expenditures.
• Prepares the monthly financial reports based on the accounting application, with all necessary justifying documents (invoice, vouchers, reconciliation…).
• Prepare all donor financial reports in respect to accounting, legal and contractual requirements

Qualifications

• 3 to 5 years of experience in accounting and financial supervision.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance.
• Good knowledge of Lebanese administrative and accounting regulation and procedures.
• Computer literacy with significant experience in excel and accounting softwares.
• Experience in working with NGOs or INGOs is a plus
• Excellent written and spoken Arabic and English
• Good communication skills