Finance Assistant

Support WFP finance operations in Yaounde by responding to tax requests, validating invoices and vendor claims, processing and tracking payments, monitoring budgets and assets, maintaining financial records and coaching support staff on consistent procedures.

• Manage tax requests and inquiries from Cameroon’s tax authority
• Retrieve paid invoices and payment advice from financial systems
• Route invoices promptly to responsible spending units
• Verify vendor claims, advances and receivables for compliant payment
• Consolidate data for budget, accounting and statistical reports
• Validate financial-system data and follow up on discrepancies
• Monitor assets, fuel, vehicle and generator-part expenditures
• Track budget expenditure and coach finance support staff

• Completion of secondary school education
• Fluency at Level C in English and French

• Post-secondary certificate in a related functional area
• Experience collecting and monitoring programme financial data, assessing financial status and reporting findings to senior leaders

• Accounts Payable
• Invoice Processing
• Tax Administration
• Budget Monitoring
• Financial Data Validation
• Financial Reporting
• Asset Tracking
• Petty Cash Management
• Staff Coaching

• WINGS
• Information Tracking Systems
• Web-Based Invoice Tracking System