Accounting Technician at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) is one of the world’s leading research partners in finding solutions for hunger, malnutrition, and poverty. Its award-winning research-for-development (R4D) approach addresses the development needs of tropical countries. IITA works with partners to enhance crop quality and productivity, reduce producer and consumer risks, and generate wealth from agriculture. IITA is a non-profit organization founded in 1967 in Nigeria and governed by a Board of Trustees. IITA works on the following crops: cowpea, soybean, banana/plantain, yam, cassava, and maize. It is a member of CGIAR, a global agriculture research partnership for a food secure future.

Applications are invited for the position below:

Job Title: Accounting Technician

Ref: IITA-HR-NRS2019-013
Location: Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti
Contract: 1-year renewable contract
Recruitment Type: National (1-year renewable contract)

Duties

Successful candidate will among other things perform the following duties:
Process expense claim and process cash imprest;
Assist in handling blank cheques during working hours and also write cheques;
Keep bank book records, reconcile bank statement and statement of accounts of suppliers;
Assist in initiating letters of fund transfer, give notice of remittance of fund transfer to payees and respond to enquires on fund transfer and payments;
Assist in reconciliation of accounts from IITA and AfricaRice;
Respond to Internal/External Auditors’ queries on payment to suppliers;
Handle Oracle AP and GL responsibilities and carry out data entry activities;
Assist in updating cheques register;
Perform any other duties as may be assigned by the supervisor.

Qualification

OND in Accounting or related field with minimum of (2) years’ experience performing similar or related roles.

Competencies
The ideal candidate must:

Be agile and hardworking.
Be honest, trustworthy and articulate and able to work under pressure.
Be conversant with the use of Oracle and other financial applications.
Be experienced in designing, implementing and maintaining M&E systems in the agricultural and agribusiness sector;
Have experience in managing quantitative and qualitative data and analyzing it using spreadsheets software such as SPSS, CSPro, Excel and STATA;
Have demonstrated success in working in multi-disciplinary teams especially in
CGIAR member organization and partnerships in a collaborative research work;
Have ability and willingness to travel to monitor project implementation processes and perform data quality control;
Have excellent leadership, training and facilitation skills;
Have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and fluent English language capability (with French being an added advantage);
Have ability to demonstrate high level skills in organizational communications, public relations and media management in a complex and dynamic operating environment, preferably in an international development context;
Have ability to multi-task and work under pressure;
Have ability to apply donor branding and communications requirements;
Have excellent team playing skills with the ability to also work with minimum supervision.