Finance Assistant

The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it is girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children face. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood and we enable children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries.

We won’t stop until we are all equal.

The Opportunity

The purpose of the position is to ensure that all financial transactions of the WAA Activities will be captured in the system before the SAP closing in each month; and facilitate training and workshop payments to the participants. Accordingly, the position holder is responsible for coordinating and facilitating all EHF training and workshop payments in line with the donor and PIE compliance policy. The finance assistant is closely working with the EHF finance and operations lead and the program area finance department. He/she works with trustworthiness and integrity and has a clear commitment to the Plan’s core values and humanitarian principles. In addition, the finance assistant will support USAID EHF Borena IP team in handling GRN for the goods, materials, equipment and services procured at Borena and Addis Abeba level to smoothly facilitate issue and receiving notes and closely work with program area supply chain team to ensure integration and team work across function.

The Individual

• A minimum of BA degree in Accounting/Business Management & related fields.
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience.
• Female candidate with desirable experience and qualification is highly encourage to apply
• Strong conceptual, verbal, listening, reading, and written communication skills; in English, Afan Oromo & Amharic languages.
• Ability to initiate and organize work while establishing priorities in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment to meet deadlines with attention to detail;
• Ability to develop strong trusting relationships in order to gain support and achieve results;
• Ability to manage multiple conflicting priorities;
• Ability to be flexible and interpersonal skills to interact with employees at all levels;
• Strong office and organizational skills.
• Ability to travel as required;
• Proficiency with MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
• Experience working on grant funded activity

Qualifications/Experience Desirable:

• Strong negotiating skills.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Able to work with minimum supervision

• Additional working experience from an international humanitarian and development organizations is a plus

Languages Required

• Fluency in English and Amharic language is essential
• Knowledge and all skills (Writing, reading, Listening & Speaking) of local languages (Afan Oromo) is mandatory

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Safeguarding Children and Program Participants (Safeguarding) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI)

• Understands and puts into practice the responsibilities under Safeguarding and GEI policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), ensuring that concerns are reported and managed per the appropriate procedures.
• Ensures that all staff in the unit/function/department are properly inducted on and understand their role in upholding Plan International’s safeguarding and GEI policies;
• Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Program Participants and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in day-to-day work.
• Ensures that Plan Ethiopia contributes to Plan International’s global efforts to ensure safeguarding and GEI, including making sure that relevant reporting and data are submitted.

Location: Oromia Program Area, Gorodolla woreda

Type of Role: Full Time, Fixed term Contract

Reports to: Finance Officer

Grade: B2

Closing Date: August 09, 2025

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.

We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.

We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.

Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.

A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International's Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme we will request information from applicants previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

Please note that Plan International will never send unsolicited emails requesting payment from candidates.

Skills Required:

• Accounting / Finance
• Sales / Marketing / Business / Management