# Finance Assistant, Partnerships

**Company**: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
**Location**: Commune Urbaine de Niamey
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Non-Profit

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## Description

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster.

**Job Summary:** Under the supervision of the Finance Manager of the consortium, the Finance Assistant, Partnerships provides daily support for financial operations, maintenance and security of project archives, and administrative and financial monitoring of partners.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Support financial and accounting processing of the project

- Receive fund requests from partners and verify accuracy of basic information, calculations, budget references, approvals, and required supporting documents.

- Prepare payment vouchers, payment statements, advance requests, adjustments, and other financial documents for the consortium.

- Assist with data entry or compilation of financial data into project monitoring tools.

- Update tracking of advances, payments, and commitments.

- Support monthly closings, reconciliations, and preparation of documents needed for consolidated financial reports.

- Identify incomplete files, inconsistencies, delays, potentially non-compliant expenditures, and risks of non-compliance to supervisor.

- Ensure physical and electronic filing

- Classify financial, accounting, and contractual documents according to approved filing plan, by partner, period, and type of transaction.

- Perform regular checks for completeness between electronic files, transaction lists, and financial tools.

- Ensure security, legibility, protection, conservation, and confidentiality of archives according to applicable procedures.

- Support financial and documentary monitoring of partners

- Facilitate circulation and registration of financial documents, fund requests, and reports between IRC and consortium members.

- Maintain up-to-date tracking tables for budgets, disbursements, expenditures, balances, expected reports, recommendations, and corrective actions.

- Actively follow up on missing documents with teams and national partners, and document their regularization.

- Prepare necessary files and supports for financial meetings, periodic reviews, audits, internal controls, and donor visits.

- Contribute to orientation sessions for partners on supporting documents, classification, digitization, and documentary requirements.

- Execute other related tasks requested by supervisor within the project framework.

**Requirements:**

- Degree level: BAC+2 or BAC+3 in finance, accounting, management, economics, or equivalent field.

- At least two years of relevant experience in accounting, financial administration, filing, or documentary monitoring of projects.

- Experience in a humanitarian organization, with national partners, or in a consortium is an asset.

- Knowledge of institutional donor documentary requirements, particularly DG ECHO, is desirable.

- Good knowledge of accounting documents, payment procedures, and budget monitoring principles.

- Mastery of classification methods, digitization, indexing, and management of physical and electronic archives.

- Good mastery of Excel, Word, document storage tools, and other office applications.

- Ability to use checklists, track multiple files, and identify missing or inconsistent documents.

- Good communication and writing skills in French; knowledge of English is an asset.

- Rigor, integrity, discretion, and strict respect for confidentiality.

- Excellent organizational sense, method, and attention to detail.

- Ability to meet deadlines and manage multiple documentary requests simultaneously.

- Team spirit, courtesy, and ability to work with different services and partners.

- Capacity and availability to travel to intervention areas, according to needs and security conditions.

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## Skills

### Required
- French
- accounting
- financial administration
- filing
- documentary monitoring
- Excel
- Word

### Nice to have
- English
- knowledge of institutional donor documentary requirements

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