Regional Accounting Officer (M/F) - French Institute of Burundi - Bujumbura

You are: - subject to the obligations of a public accountant; - completely independent of the director in the performance of your duties; - subject to the liability regime for public managers; - subject to audits by authorized authorities; - appointed to an institution without legal personality and with financial autonomy (governed by accounting instruction M9-7 - EAF). Your tasks are as follows: 1/ General accounting: - collecting revenue and ensuring the payment of expenses; - safeguarding funds and securities; - maintaining supporting documentation for accounting transactions; - preparing the financial statements for each institution at the end of each fiscal year. 2/ Cash management, if applicable: under the authority of the director. Following the regionalization of accounting agencies, directors may have established cash management offices within the EAFs: monthly auditing of the accounting transactions for cash receipts and payments submitted by each authorizing officer and cashier. 3/ Risk Management (Financial Internal Control - CIF - Budgetary and Accounting Internal Control Platform - CIBC): - Accounting expert; - Facilitator within the institutions; - Member of the governance committee. 4/ Advice to the institution's management and the embassy: - Support for directors/authorizing officers and their delegates on budgetary accounting, French public accounting rules, and the legal documents to be prepared; - Communication of all information in your possession to prepare the main budgetary documents (initial budget and amending budget(s)) to the EAF management; - Periodic reporting to the EAF management and the embassy on the status of the general accounts, particularly the cash flow; - If necessary, filling in for a lack of budget manager and payment processing: you may, by agreement (see: decree of May 5, 2022), perform budgetary tasks usually carried out by the authorizing officer. 5/ Training of newly appointed general secretaries in budgetary accounting and the ELAP finance application.