Finance Graduate Intern: Catholic Relief Services

Job Summary

Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States of America. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard of race, religion, or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance, and peacebuilding. Registered in Zimbabwe under the PVO Act, certificate number 6/2002, CRS has been supporting program activities in Zimbabwe since 1989 and has long-standing relationships with Church and non-Church partners and communities throughout the country. Zimbabwe program implements projects through 14 partner organizations in 30 districts in the areas of health, OVC, education, food security and agricultural livelihoods, and peacebuilding. CRS seeks to fill in the following position that has arisen.

The successful candidate will provide timely & comprehensive information, clerical, as well as accounting services to assist the Finance Department in executing its processes and delivering services that support high-quality programs of serving the poor and vulnerable groups. As part of an experienced Finance team, s/he will deliver quality support by applying clearly defined accounting and financial reporting processes, procedures, and service standards.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Completing standard financial documents (vouchers, debit advices, wire transfer requests, checks, etc.) following a sample template or using a portal in line with prescribed guidelines and circulate as needed.
  • Providing administrative and clerical support to financial transactions processing which includes but not limited to preparing, typing, photocopying, and scanning related documentation.
  • Filing accounting and financial reporting documentation as instructed.
  • Compiling supporting documentation (liquidation/receipt package) to support processing of financial transactions. Communicating with staff, subrecipients, partners, suppliers and following up on required documents.
  • Performing data entry function of financial transactions and recording following validation by next-level Finance staff.
  • Keeping custody of various documents (e.g. blank/undelivered checks, fuel coupons, etc).
  • Responsible for filing, packaging, and submitting records for archiving.
  • Monitoring the shared drive of uploaded payments for processing and providing feedback to initiators where required.
  • Assisting with external audits (i.e pulling, scanning, and filing documents)
  • Share supporting documents with auditors.
  • Any other duties as may be assigned from time to time.

Qualifications And Experience

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or any other related field.
  • At least 1-year Industrial Attachment working experience in a similar environment.
  • Experience working in an international NGO environment will be an added advantage.
  • Experience using MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) is required as well as knowledge of a financial accounting package or software.