Senior Associate, Finance and Administrative

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Position: Senior Associate, Finance and Administrative

Reports to: Country Manager, Finance and Admin

Location: Abuja, Nigeria

Deadline: 4th March 2026

About TaRL Africa

Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) Africa
is a not-for-profit organisation registered and headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, with teams in Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria, and Zambia. TaRL Africa began as a joint venture by Pratham and J-PAL in 2019, with the goal of supporting governments and organisations across Africa to accelerate children’s foundational skill learning using the evidence-based TaRL approach.TaRL Africa's mission is to support every child across Africa to build foundational skills for a better future. We support governments and organisations in over 12 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to design, deliver and scale impactful TaRL programs while learning and sharing how the approach can be improved for different contexts. Together with partners, TaRL Africa reached over four million children with TaRL programming by 2022.

About the TaRL Programs in Nigeria

The implementation of TaRL programs in Nigeria began in 2018 in one state but has now spread to seven states across Northern Nigeria. TaRL program aim to build foundational literacy and numeracy skills of children in upper primary grades, largely targeting Primary 4 to Primary 6 pupils. The programs are primarily implemented by state governments in partnership with TaRL Africa and other partners.

Role Summary

Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) Africa seeks a Senior Finance and Administrative Associate to support the country's programs operations. The role will report to the Country Manager Finance & Admin and is responsible for supporting finance and administrative operations. This involves establishing and maintaining efficient administrative systems and control mechanisms to support the smooth running of office operations and ensure compliance with administrative and financial processes. The role will be based in Abuja.

Job Responsibilities:

• Support the day-to-day operational, financial, and administrative operations (including processing staff requests related to programs operations)
• Review accounts payable include invoices, Requests for Payments, and travel expense reports.
• Collaborate with the team to fill in monthly timesheets and ensure a readily available database of all supporting documents linked to the GL.
• Ensure compliance with financial internal controls and ensure that transactions are processed and assets managed in accordance with the TaRL Africa financial and operational policies.
• Support in ensuring expenses are captured in the correct categories and donors and extraction of monthly and periodic financial reports for the organisation and donor requirements.
• Coordinate and oversee the accurate compilation, review, and timely submission of SCUML filings, ensuring full regulatory compliance and proper record-keeping.
• Support the office audits and financial risk management and fraud prevention issues
• Develop and maintain effective office systems (e.g., IT support, office maintenance, fixed assets, supplier contact), ensuring these are consistent with TaRL Africa’s operating requirements.
• Process and share monthly bank reconciliations within the ERP and share with CMF&A for review and approval
• Maintenance of a vendor’s database within the financial management system
• Assists CMF&A to ensure all statutory obligations are paid on timely basis
• Assists CMF&A to maintain healthy liquidity position at all time
• Manage vendor relations from the procurement process to payments
• Review advance requests and advance surrenders in the ERP
• Assist the CMF&A with assembling annual and project budgets and forecasts in accordance with the annual planning cycle for the country and central offices.
• Review monthly bank reconciliations
• Maintain the accounting reporting process, ensuring the accuracy and completeness of ledgers and all supporting documentation and compliance with finance and procurement regulations.
• Consolidate finances and produce monthly, quarterly, and annual financial management information and reports for the country office and donor.
• Review and reconcile monthly payroll and process the payroll payments for the country office.
• Coordinate internal and external audits and ensure that audit recommendations are implemented.

Required minimum Skills and Competencies:

• At least 6 years’ experience in finance, operations and office administration, ideally for a non-profit organization.
• A degree in Finance, Accounting, Management, business administration or any relevant field.
• Should be Certified Public Accountant (CPA, ICAN)
• Experience in bookkeeping and computerized accounting systems.
• Experience in making improvements to financial systems; an aptitude for this work is an advantage.
• Experience in periodic financial reporting for management purposes and donor reporting

• Ability to think critically and analytically and identify and troubleshoot potential issues before they arise.
• Positive team player with interest in people management and development
• Ability to learn and use new technologies.

TaRL Africa Values

1. We put children’s learning first
2. We are always learning, improving, and innovating
3. We are locally rooted for high-quality delivery and sustainable impact
4. We are kind, respectful, and collaborative
5. We are proactive, committed to integrity, and doing our best each day

This job description covers the main tasks and conveys the spirit of the sort of tasks that are anticipated proactively from staff. Other tasks may be assigned as necessary according to organizational needs.