Medecins Sans Frontieres Head of Accounting

MISSION AND NATURE

Within MSF, the Finance Department aims to ensure financial statements give a true and fair view of the financial position of MSF Belgium and ensures an optimal use of financial resources.

Within the Finance Department, the Head of accounting is responsible for the financial accounts which includes all processes ensuring the correctness and validity of the legal financial statements. He/she is in charge of managing the accounting unit (4 persons) which is responsible for book keeping all financial transactions.

The Head of accounting is responsible for the combination process with MSF international.

He/she participates actively in the implementation and development of the new ERP system.

MAIN FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Plans, organises and implements accounting operations and objectives; coordinates and integrates all activities toward achievement of established goals and objectives,
• Supervises, advises and supports accounting staff,
• Controls and supervises the daily encoding, management of payments and treasury,
• Performs and organises the Monthly and Annual closing operations (depreciation, inventory change, provision, cut-off-allocation, currency revaluation, etc.),
• Collects and coordinates information from third parties (Social Report, donor contracts, etc.),
• Provides pre-audit of accounts and prepares and provides necessary documents to financial auditor,
• Ensures compliance with our legal obligations (VAT, Reconciliation with the accounts of the social secretariat, statistics),
• Supervises and coordinates the reconciliations between MSF sections,
• Is responsible for the International Combination Process and is the contact person for the International consolidation,
• Ensures that accounting processes respects best practices principles (SoD) and is responsible for their update,
• Participates actively as Key user in the implementation and development of the new ERP system,
• Is responsible of the validity of the Chart of accounts,
• Facilitates the Budget process

QUALIFICATIONS

• Certified qualification degree
• 5 to 10 years of similar experience
• At least 5 years of experience in team management
• Excellent organisational skills
• Cross functional skills
• Team player with ability to communicate with colleagues
• ERP experience (knowledge of Epicor9 is an asset)
• Keen to take responsibility – this role is for an individual who is committed to fully understand and resolve issues and drive through improvements and efficiencies
• Fluent French and good English (Dutch is an asset)
• Good knowledge of MS office tools.

Interested candidates should send a letter of motivation, and curriculum vitae, by e-mail to thalia.maes@brussels.msf.org or to Thalia Maes, Médecins Sans Frontières, 94, rue Dupré, 1090 Jette, Belgium. Deadline for Application: 26th of August, 2012.