Senior Accountant 41 views

            Center for Justice (CJ)

Center for Justice (CJ) is Ethiopia’s main independent non-governmental organization working for systemic and service changes of the Ethiopian Criminal Justice System. Its establishment was spearheaded by individuals who sought to improve things they came across during their incarceration.

CJ is an organization which blends practical interventions and advocacy campaigns to improve the criminal justice system in general and the condition of detainees in Ethiopia in particular. It stands for human rights and works for their protection and realization through a mix of practical interventions and advocacy works that improve conditions for accused, arrested and detained persons both at the systemic and service levels at the national and detention facilities levels. Our fundamental task as an organization is to effect progressive change in the Ethiopian Criminal Justice System.

We work for people who are serving prison terms in the Ethiopian prisons and people who go through the Ethiopian Criminal Justice System. We give a special attention for disadvantaged people like women prisoners, children living with their incarcerated mothers, persons with disabilities and juvenile offenders.

We promote reform in the following areas: oversight of criminal justice systems to increase accountability, prevent torture and ill-treatment, a progressive criminal justice system that upholds human rights, promotes effective non-custodial responses to crime, and uses prison as a last resort,  improve health for the most vulnerable in detention facilities;  supervision, rehabilitation, reformation and reintegration of prisoners;  treatment of young offenders in correctional institutions and youth corrective training centers;  advocate for and support the provision of facilities for children accompanying their mothers in prison, the inclusion of people with lived experience in criminal justice reform efforts,   promote peaceful and inclusive societies and the enhancement of   rule of law & democratic governance, improve detainees’ access to legal aid and raise the quality of legal aid, improve the working condition of prison staffs and women legal, social and economic empowerment .

Job Summary: Responsible for the proper transaction, recording, reporting and documentation of the financial activities of CJ.

Major duties and responsibilities

• Reports all financial and accounting transactions of the firm in ledger cards
• Checks the authenticity of supporting documents and prepares payment vouchers and other necessary forms.
• Records daily cash payments and cash receipts, consolidates the accounts and up on approval posts on ledger cards.
• Prepares payroll; checks the correctness of payroll calculations; prepares journal vouchers and submits for approval.
• Collect all bank statement per month to countercheck with financial reports.
• Prepare and approve all financial reports.
• Separately holds all accounts in fund accounting system per program and donor.
• Prepare cheques for payment and facilitate the withdrawing of money from the bank.
• Perform other duties as assigned by his immediate supervisor

Reports to: Finance and Operations officer

Salary :  Negotiable