MINECOFIN 12 Various Jobs Vacancies in Kigali, Rwanda

The Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning
inspires to become a competent and efficient Ministry that generates sound and
visionary economic policies that promotes best practices in strategic planning
through hiring competent workforce that will lead to the achievement of the
Ministry’s mandate.
It is in line with the above that MINECOFIN intends to recruit best candidates
on the following positions:

• Mobilize resources for private sector
  particular Lines of Credit and other financing opportunities from
  Bilateral or multilateral agencies in favour of Rwanda private sector;
• Provide regular reports on financing
  constraints on financing of private sector in Rwanda;
• Analyse information on the status of strategic
  investments by private sector and suggest the possible sources of
  financing;
• Acting as a liaison with MINAFFET and Central
  Bank on data relating to remittances to understand the trends and suggest
  the improvement;
• Acting as a liaison with RDB on private sector
  investments and promoting synergy in facilitating the private investments;
  
• Link to Private Sector Actors to available
  financing opportunities and share information regularly on these
  opportunities to the private sector;
• Ensure recording of external private inflows
  are recorded in the DAD regularly;
• Participate in monitoring the trends of the
  Rwanda’s capital market and organize International Bond issuance whenever
  the need be.

• A Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Management,
  Finance, Business Administration or any related field with at least 3
  years of proven experience, having a Masters degree in the above areas
  will be an advantage.

• Ability to deliver results in challenging
  environments under tight deadlines;
• A creative and entrepreneurial approach to
  overcoming barriers and making change happen;
• High levels of enthusiasm, resilience, and a
  can-do attitude;
• Excellent communication skills with advanced
  capacity to write reports in English and a good knowledge of French;
• Demonstrated ability to achieve goals while
  respecting tight deadlines.

• Progressively assume responsibility for the
  management of Issues In the Minister’s office related to the Analyst’s
  assigned sector, such as macro-economic, financial development and public
  finance management;
• Rapidly and systematically analyse
  information, identify key issues and prepare recommendations;
• Validate proposed recommendations through
  consultations with staff within and beyond the Ministry;
• Provide validated recommendations for
  Executive Management decision making in the form of written/ verbal
  communication;
• Support the Ministry in meeting its strategic
  objectives through effective coordination internally and with external
  stakeholders;
• Analyse information on the status of strategic
  investments, liaise with project teams, and identify key risks to
  delivery;
• Provide recommendations for Executive
  Management decision making to support the delivery of strategic
  investments;

• A Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Management,
  Finance, Business Administration or any related field with at least 3
  years of proven experience, having a Masters degree in the above areas
  will be an advantage.

• Ability to deliver results’ in complex and
  challenging environments under tight deadlines;
• A creative and entrepreneurial approach to
  overcoming barriers and making change happen;
• High levels of enthusiasm, resilience, and a
  can-do attitude;
• Excellent communication skills with advanced
  capacity to write reports in English and a good knowledge of French;
• Demonstrated ability to achieve goals while
  respecting tight deadlines.

• Design, documentation and development of
  system functionalities
• Develop unit and system testing cases and
  scripts, test and reports test results
• Work closely with system developers on various
  design, development, documentation and testing activities
• Ensure MINECOFIN IT security policy appliance
  in SmartFMS software development lifecycle
• Maintain various database related documents
  such as manuals and programmers handbooks including developing IFMIS user
  unit tailored manuals, where necessary.
• Communicating regularly with technical,
  applications and operational staff to ensure database integrity and
  security;
• Working closely with IT team, database
  programmers and developers;
• Analyse and develop statutory and analytical
  reports for various modules of IFMIS.

• Bachelors’ degree In Information Technology
  (IT) or related discipline such as Computer Science, and IT applied in
  management specialized in Software Development, Java J2ee, and Struts
  framework development with at least 3 years experience. Possession of a
  relevant post graduate qualification with 2 years experience will be an
  added advantage.

• Knowledgeable about IT and web applications
• Interested in keeping up to date with changing
  technology.
• Understand the laws regarding privacy and data
  storage
• Knowledge and experience in mobile
  applications development will be an advantage.
• Prior experience in the successful development
  of application build, testing, implementation and quality assurance
  activities of automated financial management systems will be an advantage.
  
• Dynamic and proactive individual with the
  ability to produce technical work plans and monitor performance against
  them
• Strong track record in performance management
  is vital (setting targets, monitoring delivery, planning)
• Having a good grasp of Data Structures and
  Algorithms;
• Adequate and Practical knowledge of Relational
  Database Technologies through additional Professional Training in Advanced
  Database Systems (ORACLE, DB 2, Informix, Postgres, SQL Server) and
  practical experience
• Adequate and Practical knowledge of Web 2.0
  technologies through additional Professional Training and practical
  experience
• Being able to work hard under stressful
  situations
• Being teachable and a quick learner in
  Software Technologies

• Support the Government Chief Economist’s
  Office on Administration issues;
• Receive, select and prioritize urgent
  documents before submission to the Government Chief Economist;
• Records and file all soft and hard copies of
  document of the office;
• Organize and updating the Government Chief
  Economist diary;
• Coordinating logistics for the Government
  Chief Economist travels;
• Liaise with Directors and assist in the
  preparation and scheduling of different meetings;
• Prepare and handle all official correspondences
  in close collaboration with other staff in the unit;
• Responsible for handling visitors of the
  Government Chief Economist;
• Ensure proper filling of dossier and document
  of the Government Chief Economist
• Handle Incoming calls;
• Recording files and documents returned by the
  Government Chief Economist;
• Carry out any other duties assigned by the
  Government Chief Economist.

• A Diploma in Secretarial Services, Office
  Administration and Management Business Administration or Management from a
  recognised university with at least 2 years working experience; in a
  government institution will be an added advantage;

• Highly experienced and self motivated person
  with integrity
• Proactive with ability to take initiatives
• Ability to work under pressure
• A team player with good interpersonal skills;
• Good oral and written communication skills;
• Proficiency in MS Office suite of packages;
• Ability to handle a wide variety of people;
• High degree of self motivation and ability to
  work independently.

• Managing incoming and outgoing
  correspondences;
• Managing courier software (DMS) and producing
  daily and Weekly flash reports of all the couriers re-ceived and
  dispatched;
• Receiving, sorting and recording all incoming
  correspondence/ documents;
• Dispatching incoming correspondence to
  respective destination;
• Proper filing and storage of dossiers returned
  to the central secretariat.
• Receiving, sorting, recording and stamping all
  out going correspondence/ documents;
• Dispatching all outgoing correspondences to
  respective destination;
• Making copies and timely filing of all the
  copies of the out going couriers Proper filing and storage of dossiers
  returned to the Central Secretariat;

• A Diploma in Secretariat Services, Office Administration
  and Management, Business Administration, Social sciences or law from a
  recognised university in a busy organization will be an added advantage;

• Good oral and written communication skills;
• Fluency in English and/or French with working
  knowledge of the other language;
• Proficiency in MS Office suite of packages.
• A good team player with good interpersonal
  skills
• Strong English/French (oral and written)
  communication skills; working Knowledge of both is an added advantage
• Strong IT skills, particularly (Word, Excel,
  PowerPoint, Outlook)

• Participating in the legislative drafting and
  presentation of draft laws before the Parliament;
• Draft or assist in the drafting of contracts
  and agreements;
• Ensure that all guidelines and other legal
  written material are prepared and presented to users in the most
  appropriate manner;
• Advise on business transactions and possible
  issues and disputes;
• Participate in the settlement of disputes in
  an efficient and effective manner;
• Carrying out legal research;
• Prepare legal briefs and opinions;
• Performing any other duties assigned by the
  Hierarchy.

• A Bachelor’s degree in law or related field
  from a recognised university with at least 5 years working experience as
  lawyer in a reputable organisation; having a Masters degree in the above
  fields with 3 years working experiences will be an added advantages.

• Strong analytical skills;
• Good planning and organising skills;
• Train data staff in analysis, excel and eport
  writing skills.
• Commitment to quality;
• A team player with good interpersonal skills
  and communication skills;
• Proficient in MS Office suite of packages
  especially excel;
• Fluency in French and/or English with a
  working knowledge of the other language

• Carrying out regulatory control on the payment
  orders in view of approving and effecting their payment;
• Transmitting the payment vouchers approved to
  BNR for payment;
• Verifying the balance between the revenue and
  expenditure in order to establish an equilibrium be-tween the two;
• Receiving and recording payment vouchers;
• Carrying out verifications on the payment
  vouchers;
• Approving payment vouchers and transmitting
  them for signature to the director of treasury;
• Establishing signed-delivery payment vouchers;
  
• Verifying movements in the government
  accounts;
• Verifying effected payments in all
  government-managed accounts.
• Performing any other duties as assigned by the
  Deputy AG.

• A Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Management,
  Accounting or Economics from a recognised university with at least 3 years
  working experience in Financial Management in a reputable organisation;
  having a Masters degree in the above subjects will be an added advantages.
  

• Strong analytical skills;
• Good planning and organising skills;
• Commitment to quality;
• A team player with good interpersonal skills;
• Highly developed oral and written
  communication skills;
• Proficient in MS Office suite of packages
  especially excel;
• Good communication with the macro modelling
  and analysis staff is required.
• Be flexible with independent time management
  so to ensure learning on the job.
• Fluency in French and/or English with a
  working knowledge of the other language.

• Carrying out audits, in central government,
  that evaluate the controls over revenues, expenditures, assets and
  liabilities designed to optimise the economical and efficient use of
  resources and effectiveness of operations;
• Reviewing the existing or new information
  systems to assess the quality of controls and the relevance and reliability
  of the systems output;
• Assessing whether current controls are
  adequate to manage identified risks and provide assurance on the adequacy
  and effectiveness of risk management practices;
• Auditing of programmes and functions to help
  improve efficiency and ensuring that governance, management and control
  systems are operating effectively;
• Carrying out compliance audits which examine
  adherence to any policy, contractual, regulatory and legislative
  requirements;
• Conduct investigative assignments to assess
  any allegations of wrongdoing orbreaches of government standards of
  conduct;
• Providing advisory services, participating in
  significant initiatives and priorities and providing solutions to
  financial and other control issues;
• Reviewing the responses of management to audit
  recommendations and monitoring the implementation of recommendations
• Performing any other duties assigned by the
  chief government internal auditor.

• A Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting,
  auditing or a related field’ from a recognised university; Qualified CPA,
  ACCA or equivalent is highly desirable; with at least 3 years Of practical
  experience in auditing in a government institution or a reputable busy
  institution.

• Ability to conduct value for money audits is
  desirable;
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills;
• Good planning and organising skills;
• Commitment to quality and attention to detail;
  
• Good oral and written communication skills;
• Able to demonstrate flexibility and adapt
  easily to a changing environment;
• Be result-oriented and demonstrate integrity;
• Fluency in French and /or English with a
  working knowledge of the other language;
• Proficient in MS Office suite of packages.

• Maintaining a cash book for MINECOFIN bank
  Accounts
• Preparing a monthly Bank Reconciliation
  Statement
• Preparation of MINECOFIN Financial reports as
  required by the law e.g.
• Recording Bank operations and establishing a
  monthly balance
• Preparing a monthly Bank Reconciliation
  Statement
• Maintaining the petty cash book based on the
  documents provided by the credit officer.
• Making entries of the ministry’s revenue and
  expenditure into the accounting software.
• Preparing financial statements as required by
  law i.e
• Statement of revenue and expenditure
• Statements of net assets
• Producing periodically the Accounting
  Situation of Fixed Assets
• Keeping records on revenues and expenditures
  of the ministry.
• Performing any other duties as assigned by the
  Director of Finance and Logistics Unit.

• A Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration,
  Management, Finance, or Accounting from a recognised university with at
  least 3 years working experience in a reputable organisation; having a
  Masters degree in the above subjects will be an added advantages.

• Qualified CPA, ACCA or equivalent is highly
  desirable;
• Proficient in accounting software-Pastel and
  MS Word, Excel and Spread sheet;
• Good problem solving and analytical skills;
• Good planning and organisational skills with
  the ability to effectively prioritise tasks and responsibilities;
• Commitment to quality;
• Be result oriented and demonstrate integrity;
• Good interpersonal skills;
• Fluency in English and/or French with a
  working knowledge of the other language.