Accountant

About TDA:

The Day After is a Syrian-led organization that works for democratic transition in Syria. TDA works with its partners among Syrian CSOs and international human rights organizations to influence Syrian and non-Syrian stakeholders for the favor of the democratic transition and to keep transitional justice and accountability as a high priority during transition.

Through its programs, TDA aims at strengthening the capacity of key civil society actors working on transitional justice and rule of law as well as representatives of victims of human rights and amplifying their voices within policy debates through developing widely supported, evidence-based recommendations and channeling them to the negotiating parties and other stakeholders. We pursue this mission simultaneously through “bottom-up” and “top-down” strategies to ensure that transitional justice is not dropped off the negotiations. In addition of ensuring that relevant stakeholders are informed and demonstrate deep understanding and support of accountability and transitional justice related issues, TDA aims at empowering the local communities to be resilient and adopt principles of transitional justice.

Job Title: Accountant

Reported to: Finance Manager

Job Location: Istanbul-Turkey

Job purpose:

Assist the Finance Manager in budgeting, procurement oversight, and records management, and to be responsible for preparing timely and accurate financial reporting and assisting in the preparation of monthly financial spreadsheets, cash flow forecasts and data entry.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Records the daily transactions on the accounting systems, with proper allocation to projects, ensuring the sufficient supporting documents provided.
• Ensuring compliance of Disbursement by ensuring having all the required and sufficient supporting documents.
• Conducts monthly bank reconciliation and present to the management for approval.
• Handles day-to-day accounting and transactions, including invoicing and organization of receipts.
• Organizes project finances, prepare budget projections and ensure cash flows and transactions are functioning and accurately reported.
• Assist in preparing financial reporting and records for multiple donors.
• Ensures the timely payment of invoices and reimbursement requests.
• Ensuring compliance with donor’s requirements and TDA policies and procedures.
• Assist with annual organizational and financial audits.
• Assist Finance Manager in following up with the Turkish legal Accountant, ensuring all books are up to date.
• Assist Finance Manager in following up all needed actions regarding Turkish Government requirements (Decision book etc.)
• When needed, handle logistical requests for projects, such as hotel and travel arrangements, conference administration and minor translation.
• Assist in tracking the Payment schedules from donors and funds transfer.
• Maintain project budgets; update the budget vs actual on a monthly basis (Master & Grants, including brief commentary on variances), including Donors’ budgets.
• Assist in inventory tracking and recording.
• Any other task that has been assigned by the manager according to his specialist field.

Academic Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics

Requirements:

• Work experience as an Accountant or similar role for at least 1 year.
• Experience using financial software (QuickBooks).
• Proficiency in Microsoft office, especially in excel.
• Written and verbal (English, Arabic, and Turkish is a plus).
• Knowing the Turkish Labor Law.
• The ability to periodically prepare financial statements and financial inventories.
• Integrity, and transparency, with the ability to manage confidential data.

Skills

• Excellent analytical and numerical skills.
• Acute time management skills.
• Excellent Monitoring, Reporting, Presentation, Facilitation and Communication skills.
• Ability to work under pressure, independently and with limited supervision.
• Flexibility
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment and to multi-task to meet deadlines
• Promotes teamwork, contributes towards building team consensus and acts as a team player.