About Ministry of Mines and Petroleum (MoMP)

Job Summary

The Accountant to the Government owned Enterprises Directorate’s primary responsibility is to provide Accounts management support and training of the use accounting software (Quick books) to the Accounting department of Government owned Enterprises organization, ensuring the installation of appropriate accounting software’s (Quick books) and tools for the team’s success. Specifically, the position is responsible for providing assistance to the accounting staff of the government owned enterprises and to report to the Director of Enterprises Directorate.

Duties & Responsibilities

1. Analyze current and past corporate financial information of SOEs and prepare complex financial models to analyze data
2. Perform financial reporting, ad-hoc project analyses, and financial modeling
3. Evaluate state owned enterprises in terms of management and operations and make suggestions to improve their financial planning and control
4. Build capex models for state owned enterprises to reactivate the enterprises and improve their production capacity
5. Work with state owned enterprises to identify financial areas for improvements (this may require traveling to various cities through Afghanistan)
6. Conduct case studies to propose new accounting and financial system to the SOEs
7. Develop ad-hoc financial analysis and present recommendations to SOEs Director on strategic decisions
8. Provide Accounts management support and training on the use accounting software (Quick books) to the Accounting departments of SOEs.
9. Checking and posting monthly Program Grand Income.
10. Supervising the posting of prepayments and accrual transactions into the QuickBooks of SOEs.
11. Maintains files of source documents or other information (i.e. Vouchers, bank deposit slips, bank transfer documents, monthly payroll, tax deposits etc.) related to data entered;
12. Liaison with auditors and providing finance related to external auditors.
13. Reporting to SOEs directorate about any fraud or misappropriation of funds by the other staff.
14. Undertake any other task assign by Finance Director or senior management

Job Requirements

The Accountant is expected to have minimum academic qualifications Bachelor in Commerce (B.com), Master in Commerce (M.com), CAT/FIA (Qualified/finalist) or ACCA part qualified and equivalent, with a minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience in the government, non- government organizations (NGOs) or donor agencies in similar position.
Complete command over Debit and Credit, Good knowledge and experience of accounting software’s, ability to train others.

Knowledge/Familiarity of Accounting Software’s (Quick book, Peach Tree, etc.)

Familiarity and understanding of Microsoft Office program. (MS Excel, MS Word, PowerPoint)

Knowledge and experience in related positions

Detail-oriented and self-motivated

Able to analyze and solve problems.

Ability to work well with team

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Good command of spoken and written English as well as Knowledge of the main local languages of Afghanistan

Team player.

Willingness to learn the other disciplines of accounting in order to serve as back-up to other team members is key.

Submission Guideline

Expressions of interest (including CV and three references in word file, Educational and Work experiences documents) should be sent to the email address below by no later than 13/Aug/ 2017 at 16:00 hrs. Subject line must be the Reference MOMP/PSU/Accountant must be quoted on all correspondence and the Expression of interest. Ministry of Mines and Petroleum, Project Support Unit (PSU)
Attention: Mr. Abdul Basheer “Hassam” (Projects HR Coordinator)
Development Projects HR Unit, Second floor, Laboratory Building, Afghanistan Geological Survey (AGS), at Abdul Haq Square.
Cell phone: +93 (0) 795 62 63 20
only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Functional Area

Account/Finance

Countries

Submission Email

recruitment.momp@gmail.com

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