Summary

As a federal enterprise, GIZ supports the German Government in achieving its objectives in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development.

Responsibilities

A.Responsibilities

The accounting assistant is responsible for:

• seeing that the service in the department is provided correctly and in accordance with GIZ financial management and accounting procedures

The accounting assistant performs the following tasks:

B.Tasks

1. Financial Services

The accounting assistant

• assists with creditor and debtor administration, including local subsidies and agreements with national appraisers
• prepares transfers and/or other bank documents and checks these before execution
• makes monthly payments and foreign currency transactions and optimises these
• is responsible for administrative aspects of financial management, e.g. bank withdrawals, direct debit orders
• checks unexpected entries in the cash book
• Prepare VAT refund documents

2. Payroll, Taxes, social Security

The accounting assistant

• prepares the monthly payroll for GIZ national personnel
• is responsible for deducting taxes, social security and adjustment payments
• Remittance of Withholding taxes

3. Other duties/additional tasks

The accounting assistant

• photocopies and scans documents as needed
• reports without delay to the person responsible for accounting on all problems in financial administration and compliance with rules
• is responsible for filing financial administration documents and treating information confidentially
• performs other duties and tasks at the request of management

 

Education and Qualifications

Required qualifications, competences, and experience

• Certificate/diploma/ bachelor or comparable qualification from a commercial academy (accounting)

Requirements

Other Knowledge, additional competences

• in-depth knowledge of accounting software
• good working knowledge of ITC technologies (related software, phone, fax, email, the internet) and computer applications (e.g. MS Office)
• very good knowledge of the European language widely used in the country
• willingness to upskill as required by the tasks to be performed – corresponding measures are agreed with management

Reporting To

Administrative manager, accounting manager