We particularly encourage applications from women as they are currently under-represented within MSION at the management level.

About the Organisation

Marie Stopes International Organisation Nigeria (MSION) is a result-oriented Social enterprise, which uses modern management and marketing techniques to provide reproductive health care and allied services. MSION’s goal is to meet the needs of underserved Nigerians and dramatically improve access and use of a range of reproductive health services.

MSION is part of Marie Stopes International’s Global Partnership which is in over 37 countries worldwide.

The core responsibility of this post is to use your: 

￭ initiative        ￭ energy          ￭ persistence               ￭ results orientation

￭ drive             ￭ integrity         ￭ enthusiasm               ￭ commitment to personal development           

To further MSI’s partnership mission: enabling individuals to have children by choice not chance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Review payment request documents for accuracy, ensuring compliance with donor and organisation’s policies & procedures and cost centre matrix is properly followed.
• Monitor & update payment & expenditure trackers while ensuring proper transaction filing system is maintained for all financial activities at the support office.
• Timely preparation of payment vouchers as at when payment is due and actual upload of payments to the banking platform for approval.
• Accurate posting of financial transactions into SUN system.
• Preparation of monthly bank reconciliations of selected support office bank accounts that agrees with the bank statement for proper sign off and filing.
• Assists with statutory payroll remittances such as Pension, Pay As You Earn, National Housing Fund, Withholding Taxes e.t.c and ensure collection of payment receipts and credit notes.
• Management and reconciliation of withholding tax control accounts.
• Monitor Staff Accounts and track retirements on regular basis to ensure all advances taken are retired timely.
• Advice FD through the FM in upgradation of financial procedures and policies as and when required and on a timely basis.
• Coordinate closely with the procurement team to rectify all outstanding payments and creditors’ accounts.
• Assist in the departmental monthly expenditure review.
• Assist in the preparation of annual business plan and forecast.
• Any other duties as may be requested by the Finance Manager or any other Senior Management Team members.
• The JD’s can be adjusted according to need of the department and organization as per changes in departmental structure.

Attributes

• Leadership

 Ability to influence others to do what is to be done.

 Must possess good listening skills. 

 Must be fair, goal oriented, responsible and skilled.

 Must be charismatic. 

• Proactive decision-maker

 Ability to look beyond the obvious/routine.

 Ability to see what others cannot see. 

 Ability to seek a richer set of alternatives.

 Ability to question assumptions.

• Self-starter

 Must be an energetic person with unusual initiative. 

 Must be resilient. 

• Sound ethics and integrity.

 Must be discernibly honest and of consistent upright character.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience 

• A degree in Accounting with minimum of 2^nd class Upper division or its equivalent, and a recognised professional qualification such as ACA, ACCA, could be an added advantage.

• 1-3 years’ post NYSC experience in a similar role with an NGO/INGO
• Working knowledge of different donors USAID, DFID, UNFPA, BILL and MELINDA GATES etc.
• Ability to use SUN Accounting package could be an added advantage.
• Advance excel skills preferred.
• Ability to multitask, manage a workload and produce high quality report.
• Good team player and flexible while working with other colleagues.