Senior Accountant - Countries Support
Center for International Forestry Research
Accounting & Finance, Customer Service
Nairobi, Kenya
Posted on Jul 28, 2025
- Assist in the accurate recording and review of CIFOR-ICRAF’s countries' financial transactions:
- Journalize payroll costs and other adjustments as they arise.
- Assist in recording financial transactions for CIFOR-ICRAF countries whose finance unit has an identifiable gap.
- Assist in reviewing supporting documentation for payments made in various country offices ensuring completeness and accuracy; and recording of these transactions in the financial system affecting both bank and petty cash.
- Perform an initial review of the transactions journalized by Country Accountants/Officers before posting.
- Follow-up to ensure returns for countries without access to OCS are provided at least weekly to avoid bulking of transactions at the end of the month.
- Follow-up on balance sheet reconciliations liaising with the Country Accountants/Officers and ensure the balances are up to date.
2. Assurance of correctness and accuracy of CIFOR-ICRAF’s countries' financial transactions:
- Reviewing and posting of all payment journals; ensuring due diligence is observed while processing the accounting journals.
- Providing the required assurance that all accounting entries passed in the general ledger are free of any material misstatements.
- Ensuring proper accruals are done and subsequently cleared.
- Post payment run confirming the accuracy of the amounts, currency, bank code in the financial system as well as the bank details of the payee.
- Ensure payments are processed within the stipulated KPI.
3. Country accounting oversight:
- Carry out periodic compliance reviews of country office finance operations for the allocated countries.
- Provide support and capacity building to country office staff to ensure adherence to CIFOR_ICRAF or hosting organization policies.
- Support countries to transition to fully using the CIFOR-ICRAF systems.
- Provide necessary inputs to aid in the review of finance policies and procedures to support country offices.
- Ensure proper financial records are maintained in the country offices- both soft and hard.
4. Audit
- Timely preparation and submission of audit schedules.
- Respond to audit queries in a timely manner during both External and Internal Audit.
- Key contact support for both internal and external (interim and final) audits.
5. Balance Sheet Reconciliations
- Ensure that country accruals are done as per CIFOR_ICRAF policies and procedures, and monthly reviews are done to ensure only valid accruals remain in the account.
- Prepare and analyze the balance sheet reconciliation/schedules of allocated receivable and payable accounts and follow up on long outstanding balances.
- Timely preparation and submission of audit schedules.
- Respond to audit queries in a timely manner during both External and Internal Audit.
- Key contact support for both internal and external audits for countries supported.
6. Internal Controls
- Ensure compliance to policies and safeguard of CIFOR_ICRAF assets.
- Evaluate and communicate internal control deficiencies in a timely manner to the supervisor.
