Vacancy title:
Finance Officer

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Nonprofit, and NGO, Category: Accounting & Finance]

Jobs at:
WaterAid

Deadline of this Job:
Tuesday, July 22 2025

Duty Station:
lusaka | Lusaka | Zambia

Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, July 15 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

Finance Officer at WaterAid

About the role

This role will ensure compliance with WaterAid financial policies and procedures for payments, receipts and cash management, and ensure completeness and accuracy of WaterAid financial accounts as well as escalating issues to the Head of Finance & IT and Finance Manager as may be necessary.

The Finance Officer will be an experienced accounting technician, provide a range of financial processing and accounts support, purchasing and logistics support, and contracts and compliance support. They will provide capacity building and support to colleagues and partners in effective financial accounting and compliance. The Finance Officer will ensure their financial processing and accounts responsibilities are in line with WaterAid financial systems and internal regulations, and compliant with local country specific reporting requirements. They will provide financial update sand

reports.

In this role, you will:

Internal Controls

• Ensure accurate and adequate documentation and recording of WaterAid Zambia Incomes and expenditures in compliance with country programme and global policy and procedures.

Payment Run

• Review and interrogate payment requests through the Digital Finance App
• Collate and undertake weekly payment runs after thorough review from the Digital Finance App
• Ensuring to complete the payment of all statutory deductions in line with the provisions of the law.

Management of Intra-Organisational Accounts

• Ensure all payments on behalf of other country programmes or UK (NPEs) are posted before the cut-off date and all offshore payments are posted and accounts reconciled with the Offshore Report from UK.

Bank Payments

• Ensure bank payments are initiated following the review and approval of the payment run in line with agreed procedures and uploading payments onto the bank internet platform for approval by signatories.

Policy and Procedure

• Guide and provide support to staff in the application of WAZ charter of accounts, budget codes, financial policies and procedures.

Month-end

• Review & reconcile Balance Sheet accounts making corrections as necessary following the approval of the Finance Manager.

Fixed Assets

• Conduct physical verification of Fixed Asset the update Register with new acquisitions and disposals in line with existing WaterAid global practices and ensure it reconciles with information in GAS.

Requirements

To be successful, you will need:

• Professional accounting qualifications (such as CA Zambia, ACCA, or CIMA) finalist and a member of an internationally recognized professional accounting body such as ZICA and ACCA.
• Minimum of 3 years post qualification experience.
• Strong knowledge of accounting for non-profit organizations and financial management best practices.
• Experience in monitoring budgets, cash flow management.
• Experience of using an accounting package preferably Sun System.
• Excellent knowledge of Excel and Vision
• Demonstrated sound and in-depth knowledge of Financial Accounting, Management Accounting, Financial Management and relevant laws (Taxation, Pensions, NGO Board Act, Trustees incorporation Act, etc.

Although not essential, we'd prefer you to have:

• Excellent planning and prioritization skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with multiple work priorities.
• Excellent communication skills (oral and written);
• Good interpersonal skills, especially influencing.
• Able to demonstrate commitment to WaterAid's Values and a working style and approach that reflects these.

View the full job description here

Closing date: Applications close 12:00 PM UK time on 23rd July 2025. Interviews may be scheduled on a rolling basis, and the role may close earlier if a suitable candidate is found.

Work Hours: 8

Experience: No Requirements

Level of Education: bachelor degree

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