Assistant Finance Officer at The Mott MacDonald Group Tanzania

Job Description
CETL
(Cambridge Education Tanzania Limited) is establishing an internship
programme through its Shule Bora project. The internship will last for
six months (extendable by six months through mutual agreement) and
provide the interns with an opportunity to work within Finance
department in the programme. This is an
exciting opportunity to provide recent graduate with first-hand
experience of implementing a large-scale, government-led, education
programme.
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Responsibilities:

• Assist
  with the preparation of bank reconciliation statements and ensure they
  are checked and approved for submission within deadline.
• Responsible for petty cash management and ensuring regular reconciliation of cash balance for review.
• Responsible for recording cash and transactions into the applicable bank or cash book.
• Ensure records are available for regular checking and are up to date to meet deadline for submission to the UK head office.
• Provide
  support for payment and disbursement of cash payments e.g., per diems.
  To produce reconciliation of payment and supporting document for
  appropriate retirement.
• Assist with the compilation of Vendors’ list and collation of vouchers for batch processing within the financial system.
• Assist in the preparation of all payment vouchers, and cheques and ensure the timely settlement of all undisputed invoices.
• Checking
  and ensuring that all payment vouchers meet the minimum audit
  requirement by such as approvals and necessary supporting documentations
  are available.
• Ensuring tax compliance; more specifically with reference to the withholding tax as per the relevant provisions
• Any other task assigned by the supervisor

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Candidate Specification

• Recent Graduate or Graduate with work experience
• Right to live and work in Tanzania
• Must have obtained a minimum of upper- second class degree or equivalent in Finance or Accounting
• Proactive problem-solver with good timekeeping and communications skills
• Can demonstrate a strong interest in improving education for all.
• Fluent in spoken and written English

Application closing date: 4 October 2023.

Job Profile
Shule
Bora is a UK aid-funded government-led education support programme. It
supports the delivery of the EPforR II process nationally and also works
in nine regions of Tanzania with technical assistance from Cambridge
Education in partnership with ADD International, International Rescue
Committee and Plan International.
The programme aims to improve the
quality of pre-primary and primary schools in Tanzania. There are four
main outcomes: improving learning outcomes for all children, improving
transition rates to secondary schools for girls, ensuring children are
safe in and around schools, and helping children with disabilities
access quality education.
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The programme:

• works
  with Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MOEST) and the
  President’s Office Regional Administration and Local Government
  (PO-RALG) to test, adapt and implement at scale quality,
  gender-transformative, disability-inclusive and safe to learn education
  approaches in 9 regions, generating learning and evidence on how to
  achieve these outcomes affordably and at scale.
• supports GoT
  with the timely and effective implementation of the PforR mechanism
  through technical assistance and capacity building, with a strong focus
  on data verification, financial management and risk management. Support
  lesson learning processes from PforR so that these can be embedded into
  government processes and shared with development partners and other key
  stakeholders. Ensure that lessons and best practice from (1) are used to
  inform PfR mechanism.
• manages and coordinates programme
  activities, with a strong focus on (i) ensuring a high quality
  programme, financial and risk management oversight, (ii) working with an
  independent Learning and Evidence (L&E) provider on establishing
  regular, rigorous and community-driven monitoring and evaluation
  activities, and (iii) developing and implementing a strategy for
  effective communication of Shule Bora objectives, results, and lessons
  learned to a range of target audiences.

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