Financial Accountant Jobs in Yemen 2026

0 to 0 years Bayt

Finance Assistant

On-site - Yemen 13 July 2026

Other

<h2 class="h5">Job description</h2> <div class="t-break" data-jb-field="description"> We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030: <ul> <li>No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday </li> <li>All children learn from a quality basic education and that,</li> <li>Violence against children is no longer tolerated </li></ul>We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children.  We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.  We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse. Save the Children International seeks to always be a child-safe organization by fulfilling its obligations to the community and through programme implementation carried out by the organization for safeguarding children and improve their living standards of the child. ROLE PURPOSE: The Finance Assistant (FA) is responsible for supporting the daily financial operations of Save the Children International Yemen – WB SEAL team, in line with the SCI-Y Country Office Finance Manual, World Bank compliance requirements, internal controls, and applicable laws and regulations. The role supports payment review, transaction registration, beneficiary payment documentation review, bank and financial service provider follow-up, query resolution, and proper financial filing and archiving. The Finance Assistant will also support field offices by coordinating financial archive readiness, following up on required supporting documents, conducting sample checks for payment and beneficiary documentation, and ensuring preparedness during internal audits, external audits, donor reviews, and spot checks. The role requires close coordination with finance staff and focal points in field offices to ensure samples are complete, properly organized, easily retrievable, and aligned with SCI and World Bank standards & requirements. The Finance Assistant is expected to maintain effective working relationships with staff, suppliers, banks, service providers, partners, and other external stakeholders, while providing extended support to field offices whenever needed. SCOPE OF ROLE: Reports to: Finance Coordinator (FC) Key internal contacts: Finance, Programme, Supply Chain, Awards and Field teams. Key external contacts: Banks, financial service providers, suppliers, vendors and partners as relevant. Location: Aden/Lahj (1), Ad Dalea (1), Hayes,  AlHodeidah (1), Shabwah (1). KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY: 1. Financial Operations, Payment Processing and Control: • Assist the Finance Coordinator and Finance Officer in maintaining complete and accurate financial records in line with the SCI-Yemen Country Office Finance Manual, World Bank requirements, internal controls and applicable laws and regulations. • Support the preparation, review, registration and processing of bank and cash payments in line with the valid Scheme of Delegation, SCI-Yemen procedures, World bank compliance requirements and official regulatory requirements. • Ensure that all payments are supported by complete documentation, correct coding, proper budget availability checks and full authorisation from the respective Budget Holder before processing. • Review invoices, programme payment requests, procurement supporting documents, contracts and other financial documentation to ensure accuracy, completeness and compliance before payment processing. • Support the review and processing of advances, settlements, reimbursements, supplier payments, programme payments and other routine financial transactions. • Ensure all cheques, cash payments, bank transfers and payment vouchers are properly stamped, cancelled, filed and documented after payment completion. • Assist the Finance Coordinator and Finance Officer in the submission of internal and external financial reports by collecting documents, updating trackers and providing required supporting information to ensure a smooth flow of payments. 2. Audit Preparedness, Compliance and Documentation Support • Support preparedness for internal audits, external audits, donor-specific audits and authorised third-party reviews by coordinating document retrieval, sample preparation, archive review and evidence collection from Aden and field offices. • Assist the Finance Coordinator, Finance Officer and Area Finance team during internal audits, external audits, donor specific audits and any authorised third-party review of financial records. • Support audit preparation by retrieving documents, organising samples, responding to document requests and ensuring a clear, complete and well-documented audit trail. • Follow up on audit sample requirements with field offices and relevant departments to ensure requested documents are submitted on time and in good order. • Support the review of audit samples before submission to ensure completeness, consistency, proper authorisation, correct coding and compliance with SCI and World Bank requirements. • Escalate any missing documents, weak supporting evidence, repeated filing gaps or compliance concerns to the Finance Coordinator or Finance Officer for timely action. 3. Coordination, Query Resolution and Cross functional Support • Coordinate with Finance, Programme, Supply Chain, Awards and field teams on payment processing, document completion, coding corrections, beneficiary payment issues and required supporting evidence. • Review official emails daily, respond to queries from suppliers, banks, service providers and colleagues in a timely and appropriate manner, and raise critical issues with the line manager at the earliest opportunity. • Maintain effective working relationships with staff, suppliers, banks, financial service providers, partners and other external stakeholders to support smooth financial implementation. • Support field offices when needed through remote follow up, document review, sample checking, archiving support and coordination of finance requirements. • Attend world bank finance and project coordination meetings when required and provide updates on payment status, pending documents, archive readiness, sample tracking and follow up issues. SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (SCI Values in Practice) Accountability: •    Holds self-accountable for completing finance tasks accurately, on time and in line with SCI policies, donor requirements and internal controls. •    Uses resources responsibly, maintains proper documentation and escalates financial risks, compliance concerns or safeguarding issues promptly. •    Protects confidential financial, supplier and beneficiary information and contributes to a strong culture of child safeguarding. Ambition: •    Takes responsibility for personal development and continuously seeks to improve finance processes, documentation quality and service delivery. •    Works with energy and commitment to support timely programme implementation and achieve results for children. Collaboration: •    Builds and maintains effective working relationships with colleagues, suppliers, banks, service providers, partners and other external stakeholders. •    Communicates clearly and professionally, follows up on queries, and works collaboratively with Finance, Programme, Supply Chain, Awards and field teams. Creativity: •    Applies required finance knowledge and attention to detail to improve accuracy, filing, tracking and archiving of financial records. •    Identifies practical solutions to routine finance and payment follow up challenges in a changing operating environment. Integrity: •    Acts with honesty, transparency and professionalism in all financial transactions, communication and documentation. •           Displays sound judgement and promptly raises concerns where guidelines are not being followed. QUALIFICATIONS: •           Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or a related field. EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS Essential •    Previous 1-2 years of relevant finance, accounting or financial administration experience with good numeracy skills. •    Experience reviewing invoices, payment requests, beneficiary payment documents, payment lists and supporting evidence for accuracy and completeness. •    Experience of working in a multi-currency environment. •    Good written and oral English proficiency. •    Good MS Excel and analytical skills, with the ability to work with large amounts of data and maintain accurate trackers. •    Good organisation and document management skills to ensure that finance documentation is filed and archived on a timely basis and is easily accessible. •    Good communication skills by phone, face to face and in writing, with the ability to explain processes clearly and resolve queries with suppliers, banks, service providers, colleagues and other external stakeholders. •    Energetic, flexible and proactive approach, with the ability to work independently and cooperatively within a team setting and maintain good working relationships. Desirable •    Experience working for World Bank funded projects •           Good MS Excel and analytical skills, with the ability to work with large amounts of data. Additional job responsibilities The job duties and responsibilities set out above are not exhaustive, and the post holder may be required to carry out additional finance-related duties within the reasonableness of their level of skills and experience. (Embed counter-fraud and ethical controls in all operational processes, ensuring compliance with donor and legal requirements, while collaborating with Finance and Counter-Fraud teams to mitigate risks and conduct assessments for high-value programs) Application Information: Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application and include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations.  A copy of the full role profile can be found at www.savethechildren.net/careers/apply “Save the Children is an equal opportunity employer. Women are strongly encouraged to apply” </div>

0 to 0 years Bayt

Finance Coordinator

On-site - Yemen 29 June 2026

Telecom & Technology

<h2 class="h5">Job description</h2> <div class="t-break" data-jb-field="description"> We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030: <ul> <li>No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday </li> <li>All children learn from a quality basic education and that,</li> <li>Violence against children is no longer tolerated </li></ul>We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children.  We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.  We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse. Save the Children International seeks to always be a child-safe organization by fulfilling its obligations to the community and through programme implementation carried out by the organization for safeguarding children and improve their living standards of the child. ROLE PURPOSE:  Finance Budgeting & Reporting Coordinator is responsible for the overall Financial Reporting, Master Budget of the Country Office. The role encompasses budgeting, contracting, donor reporting and Supports in the Audit works. This holder of the role is also responsible for financial and grants compliance aspects as well as supervision and mentoring of the finance and non-finance teams.  The post holder ensures high quality services to clients are in line with SCI Policies and Procedures in humanitarian response context.  SCOPE OF ROLE:  Reports to: Finance Manager, Planning, Analysis and Audits. Staff directly reporting to this post: None. Budget responsibility: None  KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY: Financial Reporting and Spending KPIs  <ul> <li>Prepare Member/Donor financial reports (monthly, quarterly, annual, and final) as required, share with BHs for feedback before submitting to Members, and address any received comments or feedback.</li> <li>Attend the regular calls with Members to discuss the status of their awards.</li> <li>Complete the specific donors like NORAD and SIDA end of year special reports.</li> <li>Complete the monthly phasing and forecasts for SCI operations cost (personnel and office costs).</li> <li>Participate in Kick-Off meetings or Award Opening meetings for Yemen CO.</li> <li>Participate in pre-closeout, closeout, and post closeout meetings for Yemen CO..</li> <li>Prepare internal detailed monthly BVA reports and share them with Yemen CO BHs before and after the hard close. </li> <li>Contribute to monitoring CO spending and mainly in relation to KPI 01and KPI 02. </li> <li>Responsible for sharing with BHs at the beginning of the month the monthly forecasted spending by award and office indicating the minimum and maximum amount we can spend to achieve green KPI 02 result. </li> <li>Prepare and share spending analysis report by award and office on weekly basis with BHs to update them on the achieved KPI 02 results and a final report after the hard close.</li></ul>Proposal Budgeting and Budget Revision  <ul> <li>Work with Program Staff, NBD, Awards, HR, PDQ to develop proposals budgets for Yemen Office and address any received comments or feedback from the team or members or Donors.</li> <li>Work with Program Staff, NBD, HR, PDQ to do budget revisions for awards when needed and address any received comments or feedback from the team or members or Donors.</li> <li>Reviewing budget for partners when developing budgets for proposals and budget revisions.</li> <li>Download the needed data into the CAM Calculator and make sure it is updated every time a budget or budget revision is developed.</li> <li>Ensure adequate shared and standard direct SCI costs are built in all budget proposals and revisions before submission to donors.</li> <li>Maintain and update the Staff Coverage sheet for all staff on a monthly bases.</li></ul>Financial management <ul> <li>Ensure the cost allocation methodology (CAM) principles are adhered to and followed in both budget preparation and implementation.</li> <li>Reviews CAM produced entries based on allowable and allocable criteria</li> <li>Ensure that payments and Journals are authorized in line SCI, donor and National laws and regulations.</li> <li>Review of the reclassifications proposed by program staff for eligibility in line with donor regulations and in line with Save the Children Financial policies</li> <li>Review expenses monthly to ensure the correctness of booking/coding, eligibility and compliance with the donor policies and procedures. </li> <li>Carries out inductions and staff training in finance procedures, donor requirements etc.</li> <li>Work on the monthly level of effort allocation and monitoring and control of staff salaries budget in donor budgets.</li> <li>Share the TL to the PMs after the soft close for any proposed adjustments before the hardclose.</li> <li>Share the BvA and KPI results during the month and after the month closure.</li> <li>Staff Development and Training</li> <li>Provide technical assistance, training, orientation, and support to Field Offices finance staff on the CO financial issues as needed in Yemen CO.</li> <li>Provide technical support and guidance to other non-finance staff regarding financial related issues</li> <li> Attend internal finance staff, support services staff, and other relevant meetings.  Other Responsibilities </li> <li>Assists in preparation of all documents for audits and facilitates the work of the auditors in-country  </li> <li>Regularly familiarizes themselves with relevant local laws including taxation and social security laws and serves as a resource for the office on such laws</li> <li>Regularly familiarizes themselves with donor requirements on grants and contracts and serves as a resource for budget holders on these donor requirements.</li> <li>Review SODs monthly to ensure the completeness of the awards and the accurateness of the respective budget holders. </li> <li>Support on the needed adjustments for any mis-coding, Premises and CAM Mapping.</li> <li>Upload the SOF budget for new awards or revised awards to Agresso.</li> <li>Responsible for the monthly salary allocation.</li> <li>Support on the budgeting, Master Budget exercises </li> <li>All other tasks requested by the line manager and the Finance Director.</li> <li>Work with the Finance Manager and the Director of Support Services to adjust any coding errors for posted transactions in the system when and if needed.</li> <li>Responsible for completing the monthly commentary report, collect data and information needed from BHs, upload the completed report on the RO shared folder, and attend the monthly call with the RO Finance Team to discuss it. </li> <li>Review charges made to the Premise SOF, post corrections in Agresso before hard close on the 8th working day, and notify budget holders/line managers to make employees aware to use correct codes for the following month.</li> <li>Do the CAM 2nd step adjustments.</li></ul>SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice) Accountability: <ul> <li>Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values</li> <li>Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved</li></ul>Ambition: <ul> <li>Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves (and their team), takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages others to do the same</li> <li>Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others</li> <li>Future orientated, thinks strategically.</li></ul>Collaboration: <ul> <li>Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters</li> <li>Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength</li> <li>Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to</li></ul>Creativity: <ul> <li>Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions</li> <li>Willing to take disciplined risks</li></ul>Integrity: Honest, encourages openness and transparency. QUALIFICATIONS: <ul> <li> Undergraduate degree in accounting/finance or equivalent, CPA/ACCA preferred. </li></ul>EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS: <ul> <li>At least 4+ years of experience within the finance department of a national or international organization including experience with financial management in emergencies</li> <li>Excellent analytical skills – the ability to analyse complex financial data and design and produce effective management information.</li> <li>Experience of budgeting and budget management.</li> <li>Understanding of financial systems and procedures.</li> <li>Familiarity with computerised accounting systems.</li> <li>Experience of computerised accounts packages, Excel, PowerPoint and Word.</li> <li>Strong communication and interpersonal skills.</li> <li>The highest level of integrity and commitment to preventing corruption.</li> <li>Ability to gather facts and data, scrutinise with ease, determine a logical solution and resolve issues with minimal supervision.</li> <li>Ability to manage a complex and diverse workload and to work to meet tight deadlines.</li> <li>Ability to contribute to a small, proactive team, motivating staff and working collaboratively with colleagues and providing support and advice as necessary.</li> <li>Willingness and ability to dramatically change work practices and hours, and work with incoming surge teams, in the event of emergencies.</li> <li>A full appreciation of the value of co-operation, both internationally and within a team environment.</li> <li>Understanding Save the Children’s vision and mission and a commitment to its objectives.</li> <li>Commitment to Save the Children values.</li> <li>Written and verbal fluency in English and Arabic.</li> <li>Excellent analytical skills – the ability to analyse complex financial data and design and produce effective management information.</li> <li>Previous experience with various donors’ financial policies and guidelines including USAID, BHA, Sida, UNICEF, OCHA, ECHO, and other institutional donors </li></ul>Understanding of financial systems and procedures. (Embed counter-fraud and ethical controls in all operational processes, ensuring compliance with donor and legal requirements, while collaborating with Finance and Counter-Fraud teams to mitigate risks and conduct assessments for high-value programs) Application Information: Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application and include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations.  A copy of the full role profile can be found at www.savethechildren.net/careers/apply “Save the Children is an equal opportunity employer. Women are strongly encouraged to apply” </div>

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