AIPD – Accountant (Management Operations Support Team)

Job Reference Number

Accountant 03

Job Type

International Development Assistance/Emerging Markets

Schedule

Contract

Job Location

Asia; Indonesia; Papua

Job Summary

The Australia Indonesia Partnership for Decentralisation (AIPD) supports the Government of Indonesia to improve the performance of provincial and local governments. More specifically, AIPD aims to improve public service provision in health and education. AIPD works with the central government as well as five provincial governments, namely Papua, West Papua, East Nusa Tenggara, West Nusa Tenggara and East Java, and 20 district governments within those provinces, starting from 2011 to 2015.

 

In the remaining one and half years of the program, AIPD will accelerate the implementation by prioritizing the interventions that improve specific frontline service priorities. With its mandate and core competence in Public Financial Management, AIPD will focus implementation more at the level of frontline service providers and citizen/community levels, forging stronger links between all key stakeholder to ensure the greater participation, in planning, budgeting, implementation and monitoring of provision of basic services particularly in education and health sector in targeted location of Landasan Papua program. AIPD and local government of Papua and West Papua, has selected 3 Kabupaten in Papua and another 3 in West Papua as location to pilot the program.

 

AIPD has a vacancy for an accountant, to strengthen the capacity of AIPD's Landasan Papua (Community Facilitation) Program’s Implementing Partner and to ensure the administration and financial matter is well managed and accountable. The target program locations cover the kabupaten (regions) of Jayapura, Merauke and Supiori in Papua Province, and the kabupaten (regions) of Fak-Fak, Kaimana and Manokwari in West Papua Province.

 

Job Type: Local Engagement Staff

Schedule: Contract
Job Location: The job will be based in Manokwari or Jayapura with travel as needed to the 6 kabupaten and 18 districts/ kecamatan where the Landasan Papua (Community Facilitation) Program activities are located in the provinces of Papua and West Papua.

Key Responsibilities

1. ​Under the direction of Program Coordinator, manage the day-to-day financial status of the program and work Closely with Regional Operations Manager to ensure the financial management system is applied and can be used as program management tools;
2. Regularly monitor the expenditure record of implementing partners  to ensure that all finances matter are processed in an accurate and timely manner;
3. Collect financial reports from each partner and collect corresponding invoices and proofs of payments from each partner organization;
4. Verify the eligibility of the expenses claimed by the partners and check them against the approved budgets; prepare accordingly for the approval of the Program Coordinator;
5. Keep track of the project expenses vs. contracted budget to ensure that the actual cost are below or equal to the contracted budget;
6. Work closley with Implementing partner’s Admin Team, to ensure that procurement and other financial functions are transparent and follow the Admin Manual guidelines and Commonwealth Procurement Rules;
7. Provide capacity building required to support team especially financial officer of implementing partner;
8. Develop and submit monthly and 6 monthly  financial report to Program Coordinator and Regional Operations Manager.

A copy of the Terms of Reference and Selection Criteria for this position can be found by clicking on the link: Terms of Reference.

Other Requirements

​Please click on the Terms of Reference for selection criteria and how to apply.

Employee Benefits

​To be contracted full time over the term of the contract.

Contact

​By email: email your application with the reference “Accountant 03” in the subject line to recruitment@aipd.or.id.

 

Closing date: 04 May 2014, 5.00pm Jakarta time.
Late applications will not be considered.

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