Organization Name: IMPERIAL Health Sciences
Placement location: Lilongwe, Malawi
Eligible Citizenship: American
Eligible Citizenship: American
About: IMPERIAL Health Sciences is Africa’s leading partner in healthcare supply chain. Our common purpose it to ensure the secure and sustainable supply of quality medicines to the people of Africa. IMPERIAL Health Sciences is a private sector company and is ISO9001:2008 certified for the receipt, storage, and distribution of pharmaceuticals and other healthcare products. IMPERIAL Health Sciences has operations in South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria and Malawi with downstream distribution partners providing reach into 26 countries.
The objective of the IMPERIAL Health Sciences project in Malawi is to assist the Government of Malawi and donors such as the UK Department of International Development with inventory management and distribution of essential medicines and other pharmaceuticals as the central medical stores of Malawi constructs a larger warehouse.
Position Overview: The Finance Administrator is responsible for managing the accounts payable of IMPERIAL Health Sciences International for the DFID-funded project in Lilongwe, Malawi. The fellow must ensure that all account transactions are processed timely and accurately and in accordance with company policies. This person will support the financial manager in preparing monthly statements and management reports.
Responsibilities:
- Prepare all billing including warehousing, freight forwarding, SALP, security, travel time billings and all other billings
- All billing to be done in accordance to client agreements
- Ensure that the correct costs related to all invoicing have been allocated to cost of sales
- Build and maintain strong relationships with clients
- Assist the accounts payable controller with all backup documents for billing
- Reconcile debtors control to debtors listing on a monthly basis and all discrepancies investigated and corrected
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Strong communication skills
Required Skills and Experience:
- 3+ years of professional experience in financial management, budgeting, accounting, and/or operations
- Strong management/organizational skills
- Attentive to detail
- Logical thinker
- Logistics knowledge and experience
- Familiarity with accounting tools
Preferred Skills and Experience:
- Familiarity with SAP
- Familiarity with Oracle
- Experience in warehousing and distribution
- Knowledge of Malawi tax laws
- Experience in leading people
Living Conditions: Fellows will be provided with housing, health insurance and a living stipend of $650/month. Fellows will receive an award of $1500 upon successful completion of the fellowship year. Flights to and from the placement site and all other costs associated with GHC programming are included, including $600 in professional development funds.
*Note: the living stipend and completion award may be paid out in USD or local currency, as determined by the placement organization.
To apply to this position click here:http://ghcorps.org/fellows/apply/application/
