The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) seeks to employ an accountant that provides financial and accurate support in dues, treasury dues, assets, stocks, costs allocations, ensuring compliance with ILRI policies, donor requirements, and legal obligations. The job will support audit operations, maintain strong internal controls, protect assets, and provide reliable financial reports to enhance operational efficiency and financial sustainability.

The International Livestock Institute (ILRI) works to improve food and nutritional security and reduce poverty in developing countries through research for effective, safe and sustainable use of livestock. It is the only one among the 15 CGIAR Research Centers for Animal Agriculture Research for the developing world. She participated in hosting Kenya and Ethiopia, and has regional or rural offices and projects in East, Southeast Asia, as well as central, eastern, southern and western Africa. www.ilri.org.

Main responsibilities:

Fixed assets and stocks

• Maintaining the records of assets and accurate and modern stocks, and reconciliation monthly with the general professor’s book
• Operations and operations, transfers, disposal, weakness, value, and decrease assets in line with ILRI and IFRS policies
• Make sure to mark all the assets properly by the relevant section, check the details of the brand in the registry, and confirm the appointment to the correct guardian and the site
• Communication with purchases and stores to ensure accurate evaluation, registration and settlement of consumables and stocks, coordinate quarterly shares and verify annual material assets; Reconciliation between differences, investigation of contradictions, and preparation of verification and use reports, including the aging of assets and the state of inventory
• Support stores in promoting stock and asset management practices by enhancing cooperation and implementing improved controls
• Monitor the status of assets, maintenance of maintenance, replacement, or disposal, and ensure sufficient insurance coverage throughout the life cycle
• Aging arrow analysis, accounting of the statute of limitations in the stock, and amendments after approval, once approved
• Monitoring and reporting monthly on capital spending against the budget, reviewing assets and benefiting from the assignment.

AP)

• Review, matching bills/process process to ensure completion, accuracy, appropriate approvals, correct coding, compliance with ILRI financial policies and donor requirements
• Reconciliation between the assets of the professor’s book with the data of the suppliers on a monthly basis; Investigation, documentation and resolution contradictions immediately
• Processing, monitoring and pre -payment is clear to ensure timely matching with relevant bills or expense reports
• Getting and analyzing AP reports for aging that highlights later balances and escalating corrective work in line with ILRI policies
• Prepare, files and follow up the monthly value -added tax recovery claims with the Internal Revenue Authority, ensure reconciliation with the professor’s book and the accuracy of support documents
• Deal with the entire value -added tax exemption process, including time/actual time applications, coordination with relevant communication employees, follow the case and its updates, issuing certificates for suppliers, reflected the value -added value of the added, conducting monthly reconciliation and time -added value -added tax analyzes, taking quick corrective measures, preparing weekly and monthly reports
• Monitor the obligations and dues to ensure accurate recognition of expenses and the preparation of financial reports at the end of the period
• Prepare periodic AP reports (monthly, quarterly, annually), highlighting payment performance, due obligations, and risk areas

Country Accounts (AR)

• Create and issue bills and financial reports for hosted institutes, service units, internal recharge and Sundry clients in line with ILRI prices, costs and contractual agreements.
• Make sure to register the dues with the correct customers ’identifiers and features (donor/client symbols, cost centers, agreement symbols)
• Control and follow -up of the debtor/balance accounts constantly; Reconciliation between monthly balances against data or assurances from debtors and solve the differences immediately
• Preparing and analyzing aging schedules monthly, highlighting long balances and submitting recommendations for recovery procedures
• Administration of employees and arrivals, including travel progress, expenses, and other recovery operations; Settlement guarantee in a timely
• Treatment and recovery of value -added tax recovery and compensation due from tax authorities
• Providing the administration with reports due, highlighting the risks of credit and the effects of cash flow

The Ministry of Treasury and Criticism

• Review and verify the validity of all payment requests (suppliers, employees, advisors, collaborators, etc.) to ensure appropriate documents, approvals, compliance, and process payments safely and efficient
• Monitor the receipts received through bank transfers, cash, checks, sales points or digital portfolios; Issuing official receipts, deposits immediately, and reconciling the professor’s book
• Investigating counter -checks/not due, delaying transfers, or irregular transactions; Cases that have not been resolved are escalated
• Monitoring bank accounts daily, exchange of weekly receipts updates with the program to identify the identity team, and ensure the registration of all receipts and exchange immediately in ERP with accurate details
• Prepare and update the monthly, separate and annual expectations of cash flows. Distinguished levels available for operations and investment from cash flow analysis
• Performing independent monthly bank reconciliation within five (5) working days after the month is closed; Make sure that there are no suspended elements after three (3) months
• Maintaining bank account records, positions, and delegations of delegation; Registration guarantee/cancellation of time in time to plan the institution’s resources
• Monitor the quality of banking service, drawings, and SLA compliance; Ending issues to the deputy/managers
• Supporting investment mode, foreign currency transactions, and spreading interest income
• Simple cash management, corporate credit cards and mobile portfolios, guarantee compliance, reconciliation, and safe use
• It is compatible with banks to solve unjustified transactions and verify the authenticity of banking fees.
• Update weekly exchange rates in planning institutions resources and communicating with employees/units
• Participated in the charges of quarterly criticism and verification, ensuring accuracy, compliance with the simple monetary policy of ILRI, immediate reconciliation of contrast, and the preparation of verification reports
• Prepare weekly reports on cash and banks, including short -term cash flow requirements, to support planning decisions for liquidity and investment

Customize costs and recharge

• Review of the internal bills documents (utilities, area fees, information and communication technology services, food providing, etc.) for accuracy and compliance
• Recharge via units, hosted institutes and projects in ERP in time
• Update the main data distribution of space based on the inputs of the facility unit and recharge
• Reconciliation between the balances between the unit and the solution of contradictions with the service units
• Providing reports of costs and recharged to monitor budget, donor reports, and administrative decisions when necessary
• Participate in reviewing the allocation curriculum (fairness, transparency and review) and recommending improvements

Operating and administrative support

• Participated in activity in the monthly and annual closing activities, ensuring all magazines, reconciliation, timetables and reports are completed accurately and at the time specified.
• Facilitating audit operations by preparing supportive tables and ensuring the submission of the required documents in time to internal and external auditors
• Maintaining appropriate documents for all financial records, both in paper copies and digital model, and ensuring completion, accuracy and ease of recovery in line with the ILRI registry policies.
• Responding immediately to inquire from internal and external stakeholders, and provide accurate and timely information
• Training the alternative and supporting the transfer of knowledge to ensure the continuity of financial operations during absence
• Support process improvements by identifying gaps and recommending solutions and contributing to system improvements that enhance operational efficiency and controls
• Performing any other related duties as it might be released.

Academic and professional qualifications:

education:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, financing, or relevant field
• Related professional qualifications, such as ACCA or CPA, will be considered an additional advantage.

expertise:

• The five relevant professional experience after a Bachelor’s degree
• At least three years of direct experience in a financing environment, with demonstration skills in reconciliation, reports and compliance
• Previous work experience in an international non -profit organization organization or research

skills:

• Efficiency installed in computerized accounting systems, institutional resource planning platforms (for example, UNIT4/AGRESSO) as well
• The ability to analyze, interpret and reconcile accounts, ensure the accuracy of financial statements and management reports
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet tight -time dates
• Effective communication and personal skills to work with various teams and external partners
• A high level of integrity, discretionary power and commitment to confidentiality in dealing with financial statements
• The ability to adapt to new technologies, change the process, and improve efficiency constantly

Duty Station: Addis Ababa Ethiopia

Grade: Mercury 13

The minimum basic salary: Birr 42,084 per month

Conditions for appointment: This is the position of national employees (NS), and the initial appointment is for a period of three years with the possibility of renewal, depending on individual performance and the availability of financing. The ILRI reward package for the national levels in the national level in Ethiopia includes a very competitive salary and advantages such as life, medical insurance, marine retirement plan, etc. Ilri campus is located on a university campus in Addis Ababa. There are dining and sports facilities on the site.

Applications: Applicants must submit a coverage and course letter; Names and addresses (including phone and e -mail) for three rulers familiar with the professional qualifications of the candidate and work experience that will be included in the CV. The position and the reference number: Reference: Acct/Fu/11/2025 It should be clearly indicated in the line of the theme of the cover letter. All requests to be submitted online on our recruitment portal: http://ilri.simplicant.com/ On or before September 9, 2025.

The interviews will be held on Monday, September 15, 2025, we will connect the allocation of time after the position is closed.

ILRI does not impose fees on any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview meeting, processing, or training).

The qualified women are appropriately encouraged to apply.

To learn more about ILRI, visit our website http://www.ilri.org

To learn more about working at ILRI, visit our website http://www.ilri.org/

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The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) seeks to employ an accountant that provides financial and accurate support in dues, treasury dues, assets, stocks, costs allocations, ensuring compliance with ILRI policies, donor requirements, and legal obligations. The job will support audit operations, maintain strong internal controls, protect assets, and provide reliable financial reports to enhance operational efficiency and financial sustainability.

The International Livestock Institute (ILRI) works to improve food and nutritional security and reduce poverty in developing countries through research for effective, safe and sustainable use of livestock. It is the only one among the 15 CGIAR Research Centers for Animal Agriculture Research for the developing world. She participated in hosting Kenya and Ethiopia, and has regional or rural offices and projects in East, Southeast Asia, as well as central, eastern, southern and western Africa. www.ilri.org.

Main responsibilities:

Fixed assets and stocks

• Maintaining the records of assets and accurate and modern stocks, and reconciliation monthly with the general professor’s book
• Operations and operations, transfers, disposal, weakness, value, and decrease assets in line with ILRI and IFRS policies
• Make sure to mark all the assets properly by the relevant section, check the details of the brand in the registry, and confirm the appointment to the correct guardian and the site
• Communication with purchases and stores to ensure accurate evaluation, registration and settlement of consumables and stocks, coordinate quarterly shares and verify annual material assets; Reconciliation between differences, investigation of contradictions, and preparation of verification and use reports, including the aging of assets and the state of inventory
• Support stores in promoting stock and asset management practices by enhancing cooperation and implementing improved controls
• Monitor the status of assets, maintenance of maintenance, replacement, or disposal, and ensure sufficient insurance coverage throughout the life cycle
• Aging arrow analysis, accounting of the statute of limitations in the stock, and amendments after approval, once approved
• Monitoring and reporting monthly on capital spending against the budget, reviewing assets and benefiting from the assignment.

AP)

• Review, matching bills/process process to ensure completion, accuracy, appropriate approvals, correct coding, compliance with ILRI financial policies and donor requirements
• Reconciliation between the assets of the professor’s book with the data of the suppliers on a monthly basis; Investigation, documentation and resolution contradictions immediately
• Processing, monitoring and pre -payment is clear to ensure timely matching with relevant bills or expense reports
• Getting and analyzing AP reports for aging that highlights later balances and escalating corrective work in line with ILRI policies
• Prepare, files and follow up the monthly value -added tax recovery claims with the Internal Revenue Authority, ensure reconciliation with the professor’s book and the accuracy of support documents
• Deal with the entire value -added tax exemption process, including time/actual time applications, coordination with relevant communication employees, follow the case and its updates, issuing certificates for suppliers, reflected the value -added value of the added, conducting monthly reconciliation and time -added value -added tax analyzes, taking quick corrective measures, preparing weekly and monthly reports
• Monitor the obligations and dues to ensure accurate recognition of expenses and the preparation of financial reports at the end of the period
• Prepare periodic AP reports (monthly, quarterly, annually), highlighting payment performance, due obligations, and risk areas

Country Accounts (AR)

• Create and issue bills and financial reports for hosted institutes, service units, internal recharge and Sundry clients in line with ILRI prices, costs and contractual agreements.
• Make sure to register the dues with the correct customers ’identifiers and features (donor/client symbols, cost centers, agreement symbols)
• Control and follow -up of the debtor/balance accounts constantly; Reconciliation between monthly balances against data or assurances from debtors and solve the differences immediately
• Preparing and analyzing aging schedules monthly, highlighting long balances and submitting recommendations for recovery procedures
• Administration of employees and arrivals, including travel progress, expenses, and other recovery operations; Settlement guarantee in a timely
• Treatment and recovery of value -added tax recovery and compensation due from tax authorities
• Providing the administration with reports due, highlighting the risks of credit and the effects of cash flow

The Ministry of Treasury and Criticism

• Review and verify the validity of all payment requests (suppliers, employees, advisors, collaborators, etc.) to ensure appropriate documents, approvals, compliance, and process payments safely and efficient
• Monitor the receipts received through bank transfers, cash, checks, sales points or digital portfolios; Issuing official receipts, deposits immediately, and reconciling the professor’s book
• Investigating counter -checks/not due, delaying transfers, or irregular transactions; Cases that have not been resolved are escalated
• Monitoring bank accounts daily, exchange of weekly receipts updates with the program to identify the identity team, and ensure the registration of all receipts and exchange immediately in ERP with accurate details
• Prepare and update the monthly, separate and annual expectations of cash flows. Distinguished levels available for operations and investment from cash flow analysis
• Performing independent monthly bank reconciliation within five (5) working days after the month is closed; Make sure that there are no suspended elements after three (3) months
• Maintaining bank account records, positions, and delegations of delegation; Registration guarantee/cancellation of time in time to plan the institution’s resources
• Monitor the quality of banking service, drawings, and SLA compliance; Ending issues to the deputy/managers
• Supporting investment mode, foreign currency transactions, and spreading interest income
• Simple cash management, corporate credit cards and mobile portfolios, guarantee compliance, reconciliation, and safe use
• It is compatible with banks to solve unjustified transactions and verify the authenticity of banking fees.
• Update weekly exchange rates in planning institutions resources and communicating with employees/units
• Participated in the charges of quarterly criticism and verification, ensuring accuracy, compliance with the simple monetary policy of ILRI, immediate reconciliation of contrast, and the preparation of verification reports
• Prepare weekly reports on cash and banks, including short -term cash flow requirements, to support planning decisions for liquidity and investment

Customize costs and recharge

• Review of the internal bills documents (utilities, area fees, information and communication technology services, food providing, etc.) for accuracy and compliance
• Recharge via units, hosted institutes and projects in ERP in time
• Update the main data distribution of space based on the inputs of the facility unit and recharge
• Reconciliation between the balances between the unit and the solution of contradictions with the service units
• Providing reports of costs and recharged to monitor budget, donor reports, and administrative decisions when necessary
• Participate in reviewing the allocation curriculum (fairness, transparency and review) and recommending improvements

Operating and administrative support

• Participated in activity in the monthly and annual closing activities, ensuring all magazines, reconciliation, timetables and reports are completed accurately and at the time specified.
• Facilitating audit operations by preparing supportive tables and ensuring the submission of the required documents in time to internal and external auditors
• Maintaining appropriate documents for all financial records, both in paper copies and digital model, and ensuring completion, accuracy and ease of recovery in line with the ILRI registry policies.
• Responding immediately to inquire from internal and external stakeholders, and provide accurate and timely information
• Training the alternative and supporting the transfer of knowledge to ensure the continuity of financial operations during absence
• Support process improvements by identifying gaps and recommending solutions and contributing to system improvements that enhance operational efficiency and controls
• Performing any other related duties as it might be released.

Academic and professional qualifications:

education:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, financing, or relevant field
• Related professional qualifications, such as ACCA or CPA, will be considered an additional advantage.

expertise:

• The five relevant professional experience after a Bachelor’s degree
• At least three years of direct experience in a financing environment, with demonstration skills in reconciliation, reports and compliance
• Previous work experience in an international non -profit organization organization or research

skills:

• Efficiency installed in computerized accounting systems, institutional resource planning platforms (for example, UNIT4/AGRESSO) as well
• The ability to analyze, interpret and reconcile accounts, ensure the accuracy of financial statements and management reports
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet tight -time dates
• Effective communication and personal skills to work with various teams and external partners
• A high level of integrity, discretionary power and commitment to confidentiality in dealing with financial statements
• The ability to adapt to new technologies, change the process, and improve efficiency constantly

Duty Station: Addis Ababa Ethiopia

Grade: Mercury 13

The minimum basic salary: Birr 42,084 per month

Conditions for appointment: This is the position of national employees (NS), and the initial appointment is for a period of three years with the possibility of renewal, depending on individual performance and the availability of financing. The ILRI reward package for the national levels in the national level in Ethiopia includes a very competitive salary and advantages such as life, medical insurance, marine retirement plan, etc. Ilri campus is located on a university campus in Addis Ababa. There are dining and sports facilities on the site.

Applications: Applicants must submit a coverage and course letter; Names and addresses (including phone and e -mail) for three rulers familiar with the professional qualifications of the candidate and work experience that will be included in the CV. The position and the reference number: Reference: Acct/Fu/11/2025 It should be clearly indicated in the line of the theme of the cover letter. All requests to be submitted online on our recruitment portal: http://ilri.simplicant.com/ On or before September 9, 2025.

The interviews will be held on Monday, September 15, 2025, we will connect the allocation of time after the position is closed.

ILRI does not impose fees on any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview meeting, processing, or training).

The qualified women are appropriately encouraged to apply.

To learn more about ILRI, visit our website http://www.ilri.org

To learn more about working at ILRI, visit our website http://www.ilri.org/

More jobs ILRI