Accountant & EU Project Administrator

Title: Accountant & EU Project Administrator 

Company: GOPA Danismanlik Ltd. (Türkiye) in alignment with GOPA Worldwide Consultants 

Place: Ankara, Türkiye 

Start: 01.01.2025  

Role Overview 

GOPA Danismanlik is looking for a new team member, who will strengthen its financial administration on company level and will set up and run the financial administration of a newly acquired EU-funded project.  

The tasks on company level will be: 

By supervising the external accounting services: 

• Maintaining the quality and accuracy of day-to-day accounting operations. 

• Overseeing payroll management processes. 

• Ensuring the timely and accurate submission of tax declarations. 

• Ensuring the quality and consistency of quarterly financial reporting. 

• Preparing financial overviews and analyses as requested by management. 

• Providing advice on optimal contracting modalities and managing the contracting process for new staff. 

• Facilitating the seamless integration of project-level activities into the company’s overall financial processes. 

• Acting as the key user of GOPA Worldwide’s ERP system, ensuring its effective utilization 

The tasks on project level will be: 

• Setting up financial project infrastructure. 

• Steering day-to-day financial flows. 

• Monitoring, managing, and reporting continually on project activities. 

• Determining mitigation measures in cases of deviation. 

• Processing incoming invoices. 

• Ensuring quality and compliance with both internal and client regulations. 

• Providing continual support to the project team on basic financial and accounting principles. 

• Coordinating and supporting invoicing to customers.Monitoring project deliverables and supervising budgets. 

• Coordinating audits for expenditure verification in collaboration with the Project Manager. 

• Assisting the Team Leader in ensuring all consultants and staff understand and follow project procedures. 

• Collecting offers and executing tendering processes in line with PRAG (Practical Guide to Contract Procedures for EU External Actions) rules. 

• Ensuring proper documentation and compliance with EU procurement standards. 

• Finalizing timesheets and preparing a record of expert day utilization on a monthly basis. 

• Managing incidental expenditures/local budgets according to donor procedures, including planning and monitoring expenditure, verifying fund availability for project activities, and requesting funds from headquarters as necessary. 

• Recording and posting all project transactions on GOPA’s project-level accounting system and mirroring them in Turkish accounting frameworks in collaboration with the external accounting service provider. 

• Maintaining the financial filing system with hard copies for each financial transaction. 

Your profile: 

• Relevant Academic Background: You hold a relevant academic or otherwise recognized degree in business administration with accounting focus or a related field 

• Language Proficiency: Strong Turkish and English language skills,  

• Analytical Skills: You have strong analytical skills in budget planning, project implementation, and budget monitoring. 

• Technical Proficiency: You have sound user knowledge of the MS Office package, and knowledge of an ERP system is mandatory 

• Experience: You have strong experience, minimum of 5 years, in the financial and administrative management of technical assistance projects 

• Financial Acumen: You have a high interest in figures and a commitment to the continual improvement of GOPA results. 

• Donor Procedures: Experience with EU procedures is mandatory  

• Years of experience: Minimum 5 years of experience in EU-funded project management and minimum 5 years experience in company-level accounting, proven through one or more certificates of employment covering this time 

Please send your CV to the following e-mail address with the reference code “AC-Project” in the subject line: [email protected] 

Applicant deadline is 25th December 2024