About CRS
Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform the lives of people in need in more than 100 countries, regardless of race, religion, or nationality. CRS’s relief and development work is carried out through programs focused on emergency response, HIV/AIDS, health, agriculture, education, microfinance, and peacebuilding.

Job Summary
The Project / Grant Accountant supports the financial management of the assigned project/grant by ensuring adherence to CRS accounting standards, GAAP, donor requirements, and legal regulations throughout the project life cycle. S/he focuses on project‑specific financial transactions, including timely documentation, account verification, preparation of journal entries, financial analysis, and grant‑level reporting. You will work closely with the project team to ensure accurate budget monitoring, compliance with donor rules, and effective financial support to achieve project objectives.

Roles and Key Responsibilities
• Set and monitor sound accounting and financial reporting procedures for project/grant subrecipients and partners following established standards. Ensure setup and maintenance of all data required for processing financial transactions for assigned project/grant accounts in Insight financial accounting package.
• Review and validate supporting documentation before processing financial transactions to ensure all required documents are accurate and complete and authorizations are in place.
• Record financial transactions following appropriate authorizations. Review and analyze various accounts to detect irregularities. Advise on corrective actions and prepare correcting entries and adjustments, as necessary.
• Oversee and lead the financial close-out of global projects.
• Assess, evaluate and monitor subrecipient financial management processes in accordance with policy and strengthen capacity of partners in financial accounting and transactions.
• Monitor disbursement/receipt schedules, alert relevant project/grant staff of due payments/liquidations and maintain a reporting tracking and communications system to ensure that sub-recipients adhere to reporting deadlines, milestones, expiration dates, and donor approved changes in grant procedures.
• Prepare various periodic and ad hoc financial reports and perform variance analysis to assist project/grant staff with decision-making.
• Develop tools, operations manuals, and communication to ensure global grant staff and subrecipients are aware of and implement donor policies on compliance issues e.g., time keeping, travel, and procurement.
• Provide information to project/grant staff, subrecipients, and partners on financial accounting policies and procedural compliance issues and deliver training and other capacity building activities
• Provide oversight into the development of cost applications, ensuring budgets are reasonable, accurate, and adequately reflect the costs of activities required to successfully carry out the program.

Basic Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, Economics, Business Administration with courses in accounting, or a qualification in accounting (CPA/ACCA or equivalent).
• Minimum of two-five years' experience in a position with similar responsibilities, preferably with an international or local NGO, or a financial/banking institution.

Preferred Qualifications
• Knowledge of the relevant public donor regulations is preferred.
• Knowledge of SunSystems financial accounting package or similar financial reporting software preferred.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
• Proficient in MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio), Web Conferencing Applications.
• Excellent analytical skills with ability to detect and report inconsistencies
• Conscientious, accurate and thorough with great attention to detail
• Ethical conduct in accordance with recognized professional and organizational codes of ethics
• Proactive, resourceful, solutions oriented and results-oriented
• Ability to work collaboratively

Required Languages: French. English can be an asset

Travel: able to travel up to 25 %.

Supervisory Responsibilities: No

Les dossiers de candidature doivent contenir une lettre de motivation, un CV détaillé et des copies de diplômes.

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This position is subject to an accelerated recruitment process due to urgent operational needs. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis as they are received. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply promptly, as the selection process may be finalized as soon as a suitable candidate meeting the position requirements has been identified.

Agency REDI Competencies (for all CRS Staff):
• Personal Accountability – Consistently takes responsibility for one’s own actions.
• Acts with Integrity - Consistently models values aligned with CRS Guiding Principles and mission. Is considered honest.
• Builds and Maintains Trust - Shows consistency between words and actions.
• Collaborates with Others – Works effectively in intercultural and diverse teams.
• Open to Learn – Seeks out experiences that may change perspective or provide an opportunity to learn new things.

Agency Leadership Competencies:
• Lead Change – Continually looks for ways to improve the agency through a culture of agility, openness, and innovation.
• Develops and Recognizes Others – Builds the capacity of staff to reach their full potential and enhance team and agency performance.
• Strategic Mindset – Understands role in translating, communicating, and implementing agency strategy and team priorities.