The organization's internal reviewer is responsible for:
- Ensure the integrity and transparency of financial operations and their compliance with internal policies and procedures and donor rules.
- The core of their work is to review all expenditure transactions within the organization and verify their compliance with formal, legal, accounting, and mathematical rules.
- Ensure these transactions comply with expenditure documentation rules, the organization's internal policies, and donor standards.
- Verify the accuracy of accounting records and carefully review supporting documents, including supplier or employee information.
- Based on the results of their review, the internal reviewer either accepts these transactions and includes them in the payment order list sent to the treasury or accepts them and sends them to the accounting unit to settle advance accounts if expenses are paid from advance.
- The internal reviewer contributes to strengthening internal control, protecting the organization's assets, and ensuring the efficient and effective use of resources.
- The internal reviewer also prepares a tracker of errors and deficiencies in incoming transactions and records them in a special register for later classification. This is used to conduct competency-building training for employees responsible for recording expenditures and to develop internal policies and procedures accordingly.
- Commitment to the path and values of the Violet (Faith in youth and volunteers, Integrity, and honesty, sacrifice and altruism, teamwork and team spirit, innovation and creativity, elegance handling and beneficiary dignity, responsiveness and initiative).
- Reviewing all spending processes in the organization, including operational and program expenditures, and verifying the validity and integrity of supporting documentation (e.g., invoices, purchase orders, payment receipts). This includes:
Ensuring that spending processes comply with the organization's internal policies and procedures.
Verifying that spending processes comply with donor standards and contractual terms.
Reviewing supplier and employee information to ensure it is accurate and up-to-date.
Verifying that transactions are correctly recorded and classified.
Verifying formal, legal, mathematical, and accounting compliance:
Verifying formal compliance of documents (e.g., completeness of data, signatures, dates).
Verifying legal compliance of transactions (e.g., compliance with relevant laws and regulations).
Verifying mathematical compliance of transactions (e.g., accuracy of accounts and invoices).
Verifying accounting compliance of transactions (e.g., correct posting of accounts and classifications).
- Preparing payment order lists in an organized and accurate manner after accepting expenditures that comply with standards, policies, and procedures. These lists are then included in the payment order list sent to the Treasury unit or the accounting unit, as required for the transaction to be settled.
- Preparing an error and defect tracker to record errors and defects discovered during the audit in a special register. This log is then used to classify these errors and defects and identify procedures that require improvement.
- Identifying employee training needs based on the errors and defects discovered, and design and deliver training programs to enhance employee competency in spending and expense documentation.
- Coordinating with external auditors for projects to provide them with the necessary information during audits.
- Adhere to professional ethics and internal audit standards, maintaining confidentiality and impartiality in all assigned tasks.
- Continuously develop professional knowledge and skills and provide the necessary suggestions for improving work, policies, and procedures.
- Training: Provide training and support to staff members on financial procedures and policies, promoting a culture of financial responsibility and transparency.
- Respect and apply all the PSEA and child protection principles and show high commitment to report any PSEA & CP action.….
- Commitment to implementing the child safeguarding and PSEA policy by considering them when planning and designing activities as well as when receiving complaints or observing issues related to this matter and fulfilling their obligation to report it directly via the assigned channels or directly to senior management. Raising awareness to their assigned staff of child safeguarding and PSEA policy plus reporting mechanisms and how to deal with it.
Note: the above-mentioned key responsibilities / accountabilities are illustrative ones. Another future responsibilities/accountabilities may be assigned to the job depending on the department organizational chart.
Essential:
- A university degree in finance or a related field.
- A certified professional certification in internal auditing, such as the CIA (preferred).
- At least 3 years of experience in accounting and expense documentation in non-profit organizations, government institutions, or joint-stock companies.
- Advance level in English and fluent in Arabic
Desirable:
- Advanced university degree in Finance, or related fields.
- More than 3 years in relevant experience.
- High skill in arranging priorities
Core & Managerial Competencies &Technical
Core Competencies:
- Communication
- Planning and Organizing
- Commitment to Continuous Learning
- Stakeholders Orientation
- Accountability
- Technological Awareness
Supervisor/Managerial Competencies:
- Vision
- Leadership
- Empowering Others
- Building Trust
- Managing Performance
- Judgment/Decision-making
Technical Competencies:
- Proficiency in accounting software and tools (QuickBooks (
- Strong knowledge of accounting standards, internal audit procedures, and financial policies and procedures in non-profit organizations.
- Strong reporting and analysis skills
- Computer skills (Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, Power Point, Outlook).
- Creative problem solver who thrives when presented with a challenge.
Child Protection Policy
Child abuse is unacceptable to Violet, which recognizes its responsibility to protect children from harm in all areas of its work. Violet is committed to ensuring a child-safe environment and is applying a zero-tolerance approach toward any kind of child abuse and exploitation.
Discrimination, Abuse, and Harassment Policy
Violet expressly prohibits and will not tolerate any form of discrimination, abuse, or harassment (sexual or otherwise), based on race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, marital status, citizenship status, disability, or military status. Violet employees and related personnel must under no circumstances participate in any form of discrimination, harassment, or abuse (physical, sexual, or verbal), intimidation or exploitation, or in any other way infringe the rights of others inside or outside Violet.
Interested candidates, please attach a CV in English (in a separate file of no more than two A4 page) describing how your skills and experience match the requirements of this post.
Applications in languages other than English will not be reviewed:
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Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. We aim to fill vacancies as quickly as possible. This means that we will close adverts as soon as we have found the right candidate and this may be before the published closing date. We would therefore advise interested applicants to submit an application as early as possible.