• British Council Careers | Exams Finance Officer

    British Council Careers | Exams Finance Officer

    Location: Alexandria, Egypt
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    Job Description

    The British Council Egypt is currently recruiting Exams Finance Officer to support British Council Finance operations in Egypt and contributes to ensuring and maintaining a high level of Finance Control and Compliance to financial policies & processes

    Duties and Responsibilities

    Your main responsibilities in this role include the following:

    • Monitor running cost expenditure (including devolved budgets) against agreed budgets; perform weekly/monthly line item checks Identify any discrepancies in the financial reports

    • Validate & process all Off-line Payments before submitted to Financial Controller.

    • Park/post Transfer & Refund payments on SAP and reviewing supporting documentation to ensure it is done according to exams refund policy and Exams internal refund process.

    • Ensure the correct WBS’s and GLs are used to post expenses and Income. Responsible for parking/posting corrective journal entries where necessary

    • Debts over 30 days are chased and up-to-date information maintained according to Debtor Policy.

    • Preparation & post monthly accruals, support preparation of cash flow forecasts, and planning and forecasting exercise

    • Prepare Exams Income reconciliation reports and ensure they are completed on time and in the format assigned comparing the expected income to the cash collected. .



    • Identify exams bank income both GBP and local currency and take appropriate steps to match and maintain the Business Partner Account

    • Create board PRs on SAP and ensure P2P compliance within exams team, work closely with PO releaser and Market Place to ensure all transactions are in line with procurement policy & Controls.

    • Validate ESO’s confirmation on each examination board invoice against schools registration report, and sales Invoices sent to schools in order to make the mirroring between income & Expenditure

    • Make GR for examination board PO lines on the system based on the above mentioned process & after getting the confirmation of receiving the service from the operational officers

    • Match the board fee invoices with the sales invoices issued to the customers to make sure that the related income has been collected before processing the board fee invoices

    • Scan Board fee invoices & send it to HUB team in order to be IRed & paid on its due date

    • Filling all examination boards POs, invoices & supporting documents for further P2P process audit.

    • Report & Process all Exams Board Fee accruals on SAP after verifying with operational Managers Finance Manager & according to approval limits in DA.

    • Report & Process All Exams Agency income/Board fee accruals on SAP according to the agreed process for these kinds of expenditures.

    • Validate discount / free places transactions during preparing reconciliations to ensure all exams discount are in line with discount policy.

    • New customers creation/amendments requests.

    • Provide support to the Egypt Finance and Exams teams in all of the above areas, as directed by Exams Finance Manager.

    For more Information about your role, Kindly check the following Role Profile Document

    Job Requirements

    • Post holder must be eligible to work in Egypt

    • Bachelor’s level degree

      • Desirable: Enrolled with a recognized accountancy body to complete the CMA / ACCA exam

      • Desirable: Successful completion of Part 1 or Part 2 of the CMA.

      • Desirable: Successful Completion of 7 papers of the ACCA.

    • 1 years’ experience in a similar role

    • English at Proficiency Level B2

    • Arabic

    Job Details

    Company/Organization: British Council Egypt

    Employment Type: Full-time Job

    Job Functions: Finance

    Job Location: Alexandria, Egypt

    Salary/Compensation: 5697 EGP EGP Per month

    Contract Duration: 1 year Fixed Term contract

    Application Deadline: 31 December 2018

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