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Accounting Assistant

Vacancy Announcement

Position:  Accounting Assistant (1 open position)

Handicap International (HI) seeks an Accounting Assistant based in Mae - Sot, Tak province.

Closing date: 25^th October, 2016

HI reserves the right to not accept applications submitted after the deadline.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for testing and an interview. Also, HI reserves the right to contact any shortlisted candidates before closing date.

HI is an international non-governmental, non-religious, non-political and non-profit making organization specialized in the field of disability. It works alongside people with disabilities, offering them assistance and supporting them in their efforts to become self-reliant.  Since its creation, the organization has set up programmes  in approximately 60 countries worldwide and intervened in many emergency situations. 

HI in Thailand is currently supporting projects along the Thailand - Burma border focusing on the following:

• Rehabilitation Project: provision of functional rehabilitation services for persons with disabilities in 5 temporary shelters (Tak and Mae Hong Son provinces),
• Disability and Social Inclusion Project: Social inclusion of People with Disabilities and mainstreaming disability into humanitarian services in 5 temporary shelters (Tak and Mae Hong Son provinces),
• Growing Together Project: in 5 temporary shelters (Tak and Mae Hong Son provinces) focusing on enabling vulnerable children including children with disabilities, to develop their full potential on an equal basis with other children and acquire fundamental educational and social skills, as well as support to their family members and/or caregivers and,
• Risk Education Project: raising awareness activities on the risk of mines and explosive remnants of war, which is implemented in all 9 temporary shelters (Tak, Mae Hong Son, Ratchaburi and Kanchanabui province).

GENERAL MISSION:

The Accounting Assistant is based in Mae Sot office under the supervision of the Finance & accounting Officer. His/her mission is timely management of the accounts and cash flow. Major responsibilities will include analysis, processing of the monthly accounting reports. The Accounting Assistant need to respect the internal principles, procedures, norms but also the external constraints, and the time required.

Specific Tasks and Responsibilities:

1. Guarantee/ensure that the accounts are kept in good order

Aim: The programme’s book keeping conforms to accounting norms, internal procedures and the timeframes fixed

2. Manage the cash flow

Aim: Optimal management of the cash flow, good availability of funds, secured levels of flow 

Aim: To develop the team’s autonomy and performance

3. Responsibility 3: Manage Cash Box

        Aim: Ensure cash box safety, management and follow up

Qualifications required/ Desired Profile:

Education:  Diploma in accounting or business administration.

Knowledge and skills required:

• 2 years experience working as accounting assistant or admin assistant or finance assistant or related field.

Extra requirement:

• Intermediate MS Excel.
• Proficient using the Microsoft Word, email.

Other qualifications:

• Language: Good level of written, reading and spoken Thai. Intermediate English.  Knowledge of Karen or Burmese will be an advantage.
• Active listening, sense of negotiation, self-initiative, adaptation skills, ability to create team spirit and to support team building, autonomy in work and experience in accompanying a team and finding practical solutions.

Please send all applications (cover letter + CV + copy of Thai ID & educational certificate) to

Handicap International, Human resource manager - Thailand site, by Email as below:

E-mail:bbpadmin@thailand-hi.org  and dbertrand@thailand-hi.org