Intern - Finance job at International Union for Conservation of Nature

BACKGROUND

The Intern Finance is a financial administration role in terms of ensuring total compliance with IUCN policies. The overall objective of this position is to provide effective support to the Uganda Country Office Finance Unit in an effective, transparent and legally appropriate manner in conformity with IUCN policies and best practice and standards

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

Ensure effective, efficient, and accurate financial operations in line with organizational policies and donor requirements. Finance procedures are followed in all transactions and accounting documents properly filed.

SPECIFIC DUTIES:

Payment management;
Assist in Reviewing and process payment requests, ensuring all payments are authorized, recorded, and supported by relevant documentation.
Support the preparation and verification of expense claims, ensuring compliance with financial policies.
Assist in the preparation and processing of Travel Authorizations (TAs), ensuring compliance with internal policies and proper documentation.
Monitor and manage petty cash transactions.
Receipting, banking and ensuring a regular monitoring of bank balances.
Prepare Monthly Bank reconciliation reports

Statutory management;
Preparing returns for Statutory payroll deductions
Tracking and filling monthly withholding taxes
Assist with data capture into the accounting system

Financial records management;
Maintain finance registry by ensuring that all accounting documents are filed according to the established standards and donor requirements

Any other duties;
Undertake any other duties as may be assigned from time to time.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

Education;
An Accounting degree from a recognized institution.
Progress towards attaining professional accounting qualifications is an added advantage

Work Experience;
Volunteer work or school projects
Strong motivation and willingness to learn

Language Proficiency;
Ability to communicate effectively in both written and spoken english

Core Competencies;
Transparency: Able to build trust and contribute to informed and responsible decision making by carrying out the work of IUCN in a transparent manner; provides clear guidance to ensure that objectives and desired measurable results are understood by members of the team.
Inclusiveness: Understands and accepts cultural diversity, and provides a tolerant, positive and supportive working environment that fosters respect for diversity, demonstrates ability to work in a multicultural, multiethnic environment and to maintain effective working relations with people of different nationalities and cultural backgrounds.
Professionalism: Promote the organization’s interests, objectives and values in a diligent and professional manner.
Accountability: Takes responsibility of individual and collective actions, promotes the IUCN One Programme approach.

Functional competencies;
Computer proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
Able to work in a dynamic environment
Excellent communication and Interpersonal skills

• Assist in Reviewing and process payment requests, ensuring all payments are authorized, recorded, and supported by relevant documentation.
• Support the preparation and verification of expense claims, ensuring compliance with financial policies.
• Assist in the preparation and processing of Travel Authorizations (TAs), ensuring compliance with internal policies and proper documentation.
• Monitor and manage petty cash transactions.
• Receipting, banking and ensuring a regular monitoring of bank balances.
• Prepare Monthly Bank reconciliation reports.
• Preparing returns for Statutory payroll deductions.
• Tracking and filling monthly withholding taxes.
• Assist with data capture into the accounting system.
• Maintain finance registry by ensuring that all accounting documents are filed according to the established standards and donor requirements.
• Undertake any other duties as may be assigned from time to time.

• Ability to communicate effectively in both written and spoken english.
• Transparency: Able to build trust and contribute to informed and responsible decision making.
• Inclusiveness: Understands and accepts cultural diversity, and provides a tolerant, positive and supportive working environment.
• Professionalism: Promote the organization’s interests, objectives and values in a diligent and professional manner.
• Accountability: Takes responsibility of individual and collective actions.
• Computer proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
• Able to work in a dynamic environment.
• Excellent communication and Interpersonal skills.

• An Accounting degree from a recognized institution.
• Progress towards attaining professional accounting qualifications is an added advantage.
• Volunteer work or school projects.
• Strong motivation and willingness to learn.