Description
Carbon Tanzania is an innovative conservation business whose primary focus is to provide unique skills and interventions that lead to the production and delivery of forest-based carbon offsets. These carbon offsets are generated through the actions of local Tanzanian communities conserving and managing their indigenous trees and forests. Central to Carbon Tanzania’s innovative conservation approach is a fundamental respect for local community land rights; this approach generates significant and sustained local economic benefits that incentivize and enable communities to conserve their immediate environment on which their way of life depends.
Job Vacancy with Carbon Tanzania – Account assistant
Carbon Tanzania is looking for a dynamic and energetic account assistant to work within a growing company. The account assistant will be responsible for the stated responsibilities.
Duty Station: Arusha, Tanzania
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Maintaining and reconciling suppliers accounts
- Overseeing all bank transactions to ensure they are accurate and posted in time
- Supplies any financial documents to suppliers after being approved by Finance Manager
- Ensure proper filling systems and scanning all the documents to Dropbox
- Prepare draft annual report and share with finance manager
- Follow up and file community minutes meetings and receipts
- Keep track of community funds and keep reconciliations
- Analyzing bank transaction and do bank reconciliation
- Issuing EFD receipts, run daily and monthly Z report
- Follow up for tax clearance and business license
- Manage petty cash and prepare petty cash certificate counts
- Prepare trial balance and financial statements
- Reviewing and updating fixed asset register
- Preparing payroll and filing statutory returns
- Prepare the monthly withholding taxes
- Seek quotes and set procurement meetings
- Daily data entry
- Issue invoices and follow up with clients
- Do any other tasks assigned by the office & finance managers
ESSENTIAL SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
- Strong experience (minimum of 3 years) working on finance roles
- Degree in accounting, business and administration or finance related fields
- Accounting data and administrative management practices and procedures
- Competency with computer skills is essential
- Exceptional time management skills and ability to multi-task and prioritize
- Problem solving attitude
- Proficiency in English and Swahili as working languages
- Must be detail oriented
- Audit experience is an added advantage
- Women encouraged to apply
The contract duration is performance-based with one-year duration, starting in mid-June 2021. The compensation system will be commensurate with experience and appropriate for a field-based finance Manager of a small to medium enterprise.
Please send your CV and cover letter to email:ctlimitedrecruitments@gmail.com
For more information please visit: www.carbontanzania.com
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted in next two weeks (before 24th May 2021)
