Volunteer Accountant @ NGO supporting women and girls [252] in Malawi (6-12 weeks)
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- Recruiter
- Accounting for International Development
- Location
- Malawi
- Salary
- Volunteer Accounting Assignment
- Posted
- 07 Jan 2025
- Closes
- 07 Feb 2025
- Contract type
- Contract
- Hours
- Full time
- Experience level
- Qualified accountant
Are you an accounting professional looking to use your skills and experience to give something back to society and those less fortunate around the world? Perhaps swap London for Laos, Melbourne for Malawi or Boston for Belize!?
Accounting for International Development offers every type of accountant, from anywhere in the world the opportunity to use their skills to support a broad range of non-profit organisations globally. Volunteer Accounting Assignments of between 2 weeks and 6 months form part of our ongoing strategy to build the financial management capacity of charities in over 50 countries. Click APPLY for more...
NGO supporting women and girls [252]Pro bono
Malawi
6-12 weeks
Our partner is women-led not for profit organsiation, working on advancing the rights and wellbeing of rural girls and women, with a broad range of programmes focussed on education, health and economic empowerment.
As the first AfID volunteer to support this partner, the initial task will be to undertake a review of their financial management controls, processes and systems, before making and implementing recommendations to strengthen them. Although they have been running for some time, they have had challenges around building proper financial systems and controls.
They started off as a small organisation, with paper-based records. They now have a hybrid of a paper-based and a computer-based accounting system using Excel spreadsheets. Part of the assessment would be to see how they can transition to a computerised accounting system and whether an accounting software would beneficial, and if so, what might suit based on the complexity (or lack of) in accounting, resources available to them (including electricity and internet connectivity), and skillset of local staff.
Depending on what is decided and the duration of the placement, there might be scope to set up the new accounting system, creating a chart of accounts, and coaching staff in its use.
They would also benefit from support in reviewing their financial management tools – programmes and organisational budgets, management accounting tools, cashflow forecasts. Specifically, they would benefit from understanding how much it costs to run the organisation and all the programmes. At the moment, they receive funding from multiple donors, and they have to manage how they are able to recover the core administrative costs (staff salaries, office running costs). Depending on the outcome of this exercise, they would appreciate the volunteer reviewing donor agreements.
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