Officer, Finance at Evidence Action

About Evidence Action

Evidence Action is a global non-profit organization with an approach distinctive in international development – we exclusively scale interventions that are backed by strong evidence and can be delivered with exceptional cost-effectiveness. Our programs have grown since our founding in 2013 to reach over 280 million people annually. We deliver high impact for every dollar spent, as recognized by GiveWell, The Life You Can Save, and Charity Navigator.

We do development differently. We take a data-driven approach to identifying, scaling, and continuously improving programs which deliver immense impact, ensuring these solutions measurably improve the lives of millions. Our Deworm the World Initiative has helped governments in Africa and Asia deliver over 1.4 billion childhood deworming treatments, improving health, education, and incomes. Dispensers for Safe Water provides sustained safe water access to over 4 million people in rural Africa, preventing childhood illness and deaths.

We drive innovation. Our Accelerator builds the next generation of exceptional programs, taking an approach most similar to a venture capital model. We are ruthless in exciting programs which do not meet our criteria; those that advance deliver outsized impact for millions of people.

We are global. Across eight countries in Africa and Asia, our 400+ people are united by a tremendous passion for our mission and impact. We are strong because of our diversity of experience, geography, and background – with over 90% of our people in the countries where our impact is focused.

We have big ambitions. Our goal is to double our impact by 2024, to fulfill our vision of a world where hundreds of millions of people in the poorest places have better opportunities and their lives are measurably improved. We believe in bold and urgent action – because poverty doesn’t wait, and neither should we.

We need great people. Our success to date is due to the collective work of our amazing staff. To achieve our ambitious goals, we are looking for people who share our passion for evidence, cost-effectiveness, and scale. We seek individuals who take an entrepreneurial approach, enjoy tackling hard problems, and have a bias to action and results. If our vision and approach excite you as much as it does us, we invite you to join us.

Job purpose

• To ensure the integrity of accounting information by recording, verifying, consolidating, and booking transactions and proper serialization and safe filing of documents.
• The position has access to organization’s confidential information that need to be protected by adhering to organization’s value by keeping information confidential.
• The Officer, Finance, will act as a resource and/or coordinate resources between Field and country based programs, and perform other duties as defined by the Country finance lead/leadership.

Duties and responsibilities:

Staff advance accountability

• Monitoring advance usage and return period in relation to the activity timeline
• Ensuring timely review and submission of staff advance accountabilities.
• Ensuring completeness of staff advance accountabilities.
• Timely sharing of staff advances account statements and reports of cleared cases.
• Support in capacity building of the field support

Petty Cash Management

• Verification of petty cash accountabilities and expenditure.
• Track and monitor on the cost effective usage of petty cash.
• Ensuring safe custody of petty cash.
• Submission of timely weekly cash counts and requisitions for petty cash replenishment.

Asset & Fuel Management

• Ensuring safe custody and management of fleet and other assets
• Maintain an up to date asset and inventory register for the office location.
• Providing timely monthly recommendations and reports for assets and inventory.
• Support in fuel verification and monitoring of the fleet.

Financial Management

• Verification of source documents before payments are made.
• Support field teams in monitoring utilization of disbursed funds to staff.
• Support in ensuring compliance to policies and procedures during activity implementation and any other funds expenses
• Support in monitoring and tracking of activity budget limit adherence and utilization.
• Support in the reviews of the field activity plans and budgets.

Team Support

• Will regularly communicate with Finance and program leads to identify capacity needs.
• Represent the Finance team in various program meetings.