Gambia Clubfoot Fundation About
Role title: Accountant
The Gambia Clubfoot foundation seeks a qualified accountant with experience in NGOs to provide financial support to programmes and project implementation, ensuring that policies, procedures and minimum standards of accounting are complied with.
About The Gambia Clubfoot Foundation (GCF)
The Gambia Clubfoot Foundation (GCF) is a non-profit organization working to combat clubfoot, a birth defect that can affect a child's ability to walk. GCF, with support from its partners provides comprehensive clubfoot treatment programs in The Gambia, including training healthcare professionals and raising community awareness.
Position Summary
This position is an exciting opportunity to take on a role within the Gambia Clubfoot program to support, maintain and improve the office’s financial systems and controls. The role will specifically focus on Organization’s name and provide support to Organization’s name when the need arises. Based at the Brikama District hospital, the post will involve interacting with all staff and working directly with the Director to ensure a high level of operational delivery of financial activities.
The role of the accountant is to maintain the accounting records for Organization’s name. This will include ensuring compliance with donor/ grant agreement, grant management, preparing donor finance reports, partner finance management and producing monthly finance reports.
Responsibilities
- Ensure timely recording of all financial transactions.
- Examine financial documents to ensure the completeness, accuracy, and validity of financial data before payments are made
- Monitor advances and ensure that no advances are outstanding beyond the approved timelines
- Prepare bank and cash reconciliations
- Maintain the integrity of data within the ledgers
- Perform monthly balance sheet reconciliations
- Support the Gambia Clubfoot Foundation’s finance and grants operations, policies and procedures
- Manage the various grants to ensure accurate spending, tracking expenditures and variances, using Budget versus Actuals.
- Work closely with programme teams to monitor funds, ensuring up to date records of expenditures in compliance with budget allocations and donor requirements.
- Work closely with partner organizations to ensure effective management of sub-grants as well as timely and accurate reporting.
- Ensure the timely and accurate preparation of monthly reports as well as donor financial reports in line with grant agreements
- Support with annual budget preparation and the budget for new grant proposals
- Ensure proper filing systems are in place, both in-office and electronically
- Liaise with donors, partners and vendors as needed
- Ensure compliance with statutory requirements relating to Organization’s name
- Support with the preparation of the financial statements and assist with the year end audit
- Perform other related duties as required
Qualifications, Experience, Qualities
Essential Qualifications, Experience, Skills:
- Fully qualified accountant with a recognized accounting body and a minimum of two years ‘post-qualification experience, working in an NGO.
- Alternatively, a partly qualified accountant with at least Five years working experience with an NGO
- Strong sense of responsibility, including high level of accuracy, attention to detail, excellent time management, problem-solving and organisational abilities
- Ability to manage competing tasks; ability to prioritise and produce high-level output consistently.
- Ability to work independently and meet tight deadlines
- Experience in the use of accounting systems and advanced Excel
- Highly developed interpersonal and teamwork skills, as well as a proven ability to operate in a confidential environment
- Excellent communication skills in a variety of settings (formal/informal, financial and non-financial)
- Strong sense of honesty and integrity and personal commitment to the goals of Organization’s name
Highly desirable:
- Practical experience working in an international non-profit environment and involvement with annual statutory audits
- Practical experience in working with partners and donors
How to Apply
Submit CV and cover letter to gcfacc2025@gmail.com
Deadline for application: 6 June 2025
