Purpose and Conditional Recruitment Notice
ASLO seeks expressions of interest from qualified provincial treasury and banking professionals to establish a candidate roster for anticipated donor-funded projects. The officer will safeguard project funds, manage authorized cash and banking operations, maintain accurate financial records and support timely, compliant project payments. This is not an offer of employment. Shortlisting, final selection, appointment, contract start date, number of actual hires and contract duration depend on written donor/project approval, confirmed funding, approved staffing plans and ASLO recruitment procedures.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
Cash, Treasury and Banking Operations
· Maintain secure custody of authorized cash, cheque books, payment instruments, safe keys and bank records under approved access controls.
· Conduct and document daily opening and closing cash counts; maintain daily cash-position reports and immediately escalate shortages, overages or irregularities.
· Prepare approved bank deposits, withdrawals, transfers and cheque documentation; follow up pending transfers, bank charges and unidentified transactions.
· Maintain current bank, cheque, cashbook and transaction registers by project, donor, currency and cost centre; protect confidential banking information.
Payments, Advances and Cash Flow
· Review payment requests for supporting evidence, donor eligibility, budget availability, procurement compliance, tax treatment and delegated approvals before processing.
· Prepare correctly coded vouchers and retain invoices, contracts, purchase orders, goods-received notes, payroll and signed payment acknowledgements as applicable.
· Manage approved petty cash, monitor staff and operational advances, review liquidation documents and report overdue balances.
· Prepare weekly and monthly cash forecasts, identify liquidity gaps and support authorized transfers to project locations; record currency exchanges with supporting evidence.
Accounting, Reconciliation and Reporting
· Post treasury transactions accurately in QuickBooks or another ASLO-approved accounting system, preserving the audit trail.
· Maintain cashbooks, bankbooks, advance registers and payment trackers; reconcile these with the general ledger.
· Prepare monthly bank reconciliations, investigate reconciling items and promptly report unresolved differences.
· Provide accurate daily, weekly and monthly treasury reports to provincial management and HQ Finance, including cash position, bank balances, payments and advances.
· Support payroll payments and reconcile authorized staff transfers with HR and Finance records while maintaining confidentiality.
Provincial Field Support, Controls and Audit
· Visit district and village-level project locations when authorized to verify cash-related documentation, payment evidence, beneficiary or supplier acknowledgements and compliance with financial procedures.
· Identify and promptly report cash-handling gaps, unsupported payments, late liquidations, banking problems, fraud indicators and other financial risks to provincial management and the HQ Finance and Grants Manager.
· Track corrective actions, follow up field-level financial findings and document resolution with supporting evidence.
· Prepare orderly physical and electronic financial files for donor verification, spot checks, internal/external audits and project closeout.
· Apply segregation of duties: never approve own payments, use blank signed cheques, alter evidence, split transactions to evade thresholds or release unauthorized funds.