What will your role be?
You will be mainly responsible for managing
payments from the Bangui Agency portfolio and certain
C2D files from the Yaoundé Agency. Other files outside of C2D could be added
to your portfolio if necessary. You will have to adapt to the fact that the
location of operations in Bangui is separate from the remittance site in Yaoundé.
In addition, you will act as the Remittance Officer
for Yaoundé in the event of his absence.
Specifically, your tasks will be as follows:
1. Management of Payments
– Check the data from the information system;
– Check the regularity and conformity of payment files;
– Check the validity of authorizing officers’ signatures;
– Check supporting documents (invoices and statements) with particular attention to taxes;
– Establish internally, rate setting requests where applicable;
Complete the payment control sheet;
– Enter the data into the Payment software (agreement, contractual documents, payment request) with edition of the payment request;
– Establish bank transfer orders if necessary and send payment confirmation letters to the authorizing officers;
– Send the processed files to AFD headquarters in Paris after scanning and recording;
– Classify files in dematerialized form in the Agency tree;
– Manage rejections for non-compliant files;
– Regularize anomalies noted by second-level control;
– Process the balances to be justified and cancel the balances to be paid into the software;
– Work in collaboration with the various services involved in the back office monitoring of competitions.
2. Management of financial assistance
– Control and prepare letters of transmission of account statements to counterparties;
– Prepare weekly reports.
3. Relationship with the Middle office
– Ensure the processing of Remaining Payments from subsidy projects in Bangui.
4. Carrying out the Markets /
Empreinte France
survey In the event of temporary work:
– Control and transmit due date calls to counterparties;
– Maintain and update the unpaid debt tracking table;
– Relaunch the counterparties on unpaid debts;
– Act as Front Office to resolve problems related to unpaid due dates;
– Provide the necessary information to populate the dashboards.
Who are we looking for?
1. Skills
sought:
– Master the entire accounting process and other related functions
– Have excellent command of IT tools and Excel in particular.
2. Human/
relational qualities:
– Enjoy working in a team.
– Demonstrate organization, rigor, versatility and adaptability.
– Be able to work in emergency situations.
– Be able to follow the updating of new procedures.
3. Level of studies and
experience:
– Master II in accounting and finance
– Have at least three years of professional experience in accounting and/or auditing.
4. Languages
– Have a working level of English.
Which team will you join?
The French Development Agency (AFD) is a French public establishment which has contributed, for 80 years, to the sustainable and shared economic and social development of the countries in which it operates. AFD has a network of 85 agencies abroad covering more than 100 countries. Each of these agencies is attached locally to a Regional Directorate as well as to a Geographic Department at headquarters, responsible for coordinating the different teams of experts in Paris.
You will join the Payment team of the AFD Agency of Cameroon based in Yaoundé which ensures the accounting monitoring of financing (loans and grants) granted to Cameroon and the Central African Republic through its own applications.
Why
join the French Development Agency?
Joining
AFD means contributing to the construction of a common world, this is the
mission of our Group. A world in common is a world that preserves and
defends these five great common goods: the planet, social bonds,
peace, partnerships and economic prosperity.
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