Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, January 22 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is a federally owned international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations. The GIZ Office in Kigali covers GIZ’s portfolio in Rwanda and Burundi. GIZ Rwanda/Burundi implements projects on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, the European Union and other commissioning authorities in the following priority areas: Sustainable Economic Development; Good Governance; Climate, Energy and Sustainable Urban Development; Digitalization and Digital Economy; and regional projects in the Great Lakes Region.
Location: Kigali
Duration: 01.04.2025 - 30.09.2025

Tasks and areas of support
• Review and verify supplier invoices for accuracy and compliance with organizational policies.
• Accounting and receivable management support
• Organize, file, and maintain financial and administrative documents in both physical and electronic formats.
• Provide logistical support to program activities, including coordination with vendors and attendees
• Collaborate with team members to create and update Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for financial and administrative processes for the cluster and entire portfolio
• Engage in conceptual tasks related to process improvement, compliance, and documentation.
• Support the optimization of commercial processes and documentation, following best practices
• Assist in developing and maintaining digital knowledge management systems for the cluster/portfolio, including processes, documents, and responsibilities.
• Supporting monitoring & evaluation activities, e.g. data collection, data entry, designing data collection tools and reporting
• Support technical advisors in programme management activities, e.g. proposal writing, monitoring of activities, stakeholder management
• performs other duties and tasks at the request of management

Qualifications
• Currently enrolled or recently graduated (< 6 months) in a bachelor’s degree programme in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or a related field

Additional competences
• Proficiency in MS Office (Outlook, Excel, Word etc.) and accounting software
• Ability to think critically and contribute to process improvement and SOP development.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Fluency in Kinyarwanda and English, good knowledge in French is an added advantage
• Willingness to learn on the job and ability to deal with constructive feedback 

Other preferences
• Working experience in the area of financial management, procurement, logistics, process development
• Previous experience with a multinational organization or NGO
• Master’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or a related field is an added advantage

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months:

Level of Education: Postgraduate Degree

Job application procedure

Interested candidates should submit their application (motivation letter, updated CV, certificates and references) via our electronic job portal by using the button “apply”; until 3rd February 2025 at 4:00 PM. All attachments should be put together in one PDF file not larger than 2 MB. The cover letter should be limited to one page and the CV to a maximum of two pages. Otherwise, the application will not be considered.

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