Finance Officer, RISE Angola

Job ID

2026-7637

Location

AO-Luanda

Category

Local

Employment Status

Full-Time

Jhpiego is an international, non-profit health organization affiliated with The Johns Hopkins University. For 50 years and in over 155 countries, Jhpiego has worked to prevent the needless deaths of women and their families.

Jhpiego leads the Reaching Impact Saturation and Epidemic Control (RISE) project; a multi-country project funded by the U.S. Government to save lives and improve health through integrated, evidence-based approaches to address urgent gaps in lifesaving services. RISE works across all levels of the health system to strengthen the HIV/TB epidemic response, to limit the spread of deadly disease outbreaks through Global Health Security (GHS) programming, and to reduce preventable morbidity and mortality through integrated maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH), nutrition, tuberculosis (TB), and malaria services. RISE supports country governments to strengthen essential data systems, supply chain and commodity management, human resources for health, domestic resource mobilization, and other cross-cutting health system functions to accelerate transition to country ownership and self-reliance.

In Angola, RISE supports the Government of the Republic of Angola (GRA) in its efforts to end HIV/AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. This will be achieved by strengthening the public health system and making measurable progress toward targets across all ages and populations. The project supports the implementation of high-quality, life-saving community-based HIV service delivery, system strengthening and transition towards sustainable integrated programming.

The Finance Officer will be responsible for providing financial and operational support to RISE Angola programming, ensuring that financial, administrative, and operational systems are sound and align with standard accounting practices and follow rules and regulations from USG, JHU and Jhpiego. The Finance Officer will report to a Finance and Admin Director (FAD) and will liaise with the RISE Financial Core team, providing support for uniform implementation of program financial procedures. S/he ensures that daily financial operations are handled efficiently with particular emphasis on handling accounts payable and receivable, expense reports, cash handling, payments and compliance to Jhpiego and donor financial

policies. The Finance Officer will also implement and maintain an on-site financial accounting and bookkeeping system required to ensure the integrity and effective performance of Jhpiego’s financial operations.

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The project is seeking a Finance Officer in Angola.

• Assist and contribute to the implementation of financial policies and procedures in the office and updating policies and procedures where necessary.
• Support and contribute to the implementation of systems and procedures to ensure adequate internal controls
• Be familiar with the related Angola financial laws & regulations; and assist in their application
• On a daily basis, review expense reports to ensure completeness, accuracy, reasonability and validity of financial data before posting to financial system
• Prepare payment vouchers and ensure review and approval
• Monitor payments due and posted in the accounting system on a daily basis
• Management of petty cash
• Ensure that the petty cash replenishment is prepared the moment the disbursement is 75% of the cash float
• Assist the FAD with routine follow-up and reconciliation of accounts payable
• Monitor and reconcile vendor statements on monthly basis and ensure timely settlement of bills
• Ensure prompt payment of staff advances and supplier invoices to safeguard Jhpiego reputation
• Send notification to vendors and staff on payments transferred to their accounts
• Provide updates to staff on their advance accounts on regular basis (at least once a month)
• Provide information to staff requiring reimbursement
• Reviews and prepares monthly financial analysis and budget versus expense reports to determine reasonableness of variances and take appropriate actions as required
• Ensure project procurement is in compliance to the USG and Jhpiego procurement policies by reviewing procurement documents
• Review financial transactions to ensure availability of funds and expenses are allowable and reasonable
• Process requisitions, payments, receipts and other necessary accounting activities ensuring timeliness and proper charge codes; verify documentation for all program disbursements and review numerical accuracy and ensuring proper authorization before making payment
• Assist staff in determining allowability and allocability of costs to a particular award
• Preparation of monthly bank reconciliation statement and reconciliation of control accounts
• Ensuring timely submission of monthly financial reporting (QuickBooks) and bank reconciliations and its submission to Jhpiego head office including preparing month-end journal vouchers as required
• Conducts routine surprise petty cash counts
• Designs and implements sound internal controls by implementing recommendations from Internal Compliance Reviews and external audits
• Completes cash flow analysis to ensure adequate cash needs
• Support to the Finance Director and technical/program leads with provision of reports on obligations and expenditures of the program budgets, including sub-agreement budgets with partnering agencies and sub-grantees, monitor expenses versus budgets in coordination with the Finance Director and in-country program staff, develop and monitor annual work plan
• Preparation of expenditure analysis report & ensure that the expenditure falls within the budget & work plans
• Assist in the preparation of budgets by providing relevant data and advice to program staff
• Maintenance of proper filing of records and ensure complete documents for all transactions
• Provide finance support to program staff as requested
• Use various software applications, such as spreadsheets, relational databases, and graphic packages to assemble, manipulate, format data and/or reports
• Perform other duties as required.

• BA in Finance, Accounting or Diploma with 05 to 06 years relevant experience
• Knowledge in the use of financial software applications, databases, spreadsheets, and/or word processing required
• Experience with financial analysis, financial reporting, cash flow analysis, budget development, and forecasting
• Knowledge of US government cost principles
• Excellent knowledge and skills in QuickBooks and excel
• Knowledge of VAT processes and donor reporting
• Familiarity with NGO and donor supported projects
• Must treat payroll, accounting and budget information on a confidential basis
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office software applications
• Ability to prioritize and organize workload
• Excellent communications and written skills in Portuguese and English
• Strong interpersonal, writing, and oral communication and presentation skills
• Must be cooperative, hardworking, flexible, and dependable
• Willingness to travel locally
• Strong analytical skills

Jhpiego offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive employee benefits package.

Please apply at www.jhpiego.org/careers

Applicants must submit a single document for upload to include: cover letter, resume, and references.

For further information about Jhpiego, visit our website at www.jhpiego.org

Note: The successful candidate selected for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation.

Jhpiego is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer

Jhpiego, a Johns Hopkins University affiliate, is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of gender, marital status, pregnancy, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, other legally protected characteristics or any other occupationally irrelevant criteria. Jhpiego promotes Affirmative Action for minorities, women, individuals who are disabled, and veterans.

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