Job Vacancies (2 Positions)
Rwanda Meteorology Agency (Meteo Rwanda) | Post type: jobs February 4, 2025 - Deadline 11/03/2025 | NumberOfPosition [2]

1. Job Title: Accountant

Job responsibilities

• Manage financial records

• Update the budgetary accounting

• Update cashbooks

• Deduct the expenses from the budget and file all documents related to those operations

• Ensure all books of accounts and records related to payments are proper filled and under safe custody

• Ensures timely preparations of all financial reports (statutory, ad hoc and management accounts, including exception reports) to management and the Board;

• Record any taxes withheld and ensure its payment to the tax authority is done on time;

• Receive, verify and record all transactions related to payment based on GAAP applicable in the country;

• Perform regular reconciliation statement for all METEO RWANDA accounts

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting with a foundation level one of CPA/CIA/CPFA/CPFM/ACCA (Applied Knowledge of ACCA) or Stage two of CAT/ API Certificate

  0 Year of relevant experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Economics with a foundation level one of CPA/CIA/CPFA/CPFM/ACCA (Applied Knowledge of ACCA) or Stage two of CAT/ API Certificate

  0 Year of relevant experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Management with a foundation level one of CPA/CIA/CPFA/CPFM/ACCA (Applied Knowledge of ACCA) or Stage two of CAT/ API Certificate

  0 Year of relevant experience

Required competencies and key technical skills

• Integrity

• Strong critical thinking skills and excellent problem solving skills

• Inclusiveness

• Accountability

• Communication

• Teamwork

• Client/citizen focus

• Professionalism

• Commitment to continuous learning

• Resource management skills

• Analytical skills

• Problem solving skills

• Decision making skills

• Time management skills

• Risk management skills

• Results oriented

• Digital literacy skills

• Fluency in Kinyarwanda, English and/or French. Knowledge of all is an added advantage.

• Knowledge of accounting, financial reporting and auditing standards (Such as IPSAS, IFRS; ISSAs)

• Proficiency in financial management systems

• A transition period for professional certification requirement is three (3) years starting from 01st January, 2021. However, a new entrant without the required professional certification for a given job position shall not be eligible, one (1) year before the expiration of the transition period.

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2. Job Title: Big Data Specialist

Job responsibilities

Operate, maintain and protect the Climate Data Management System according to Standard Operating Procedures, and archive the observational data and metadata records according to professional standards

• Gather, accumulate all weather and climate data from different national sources, clean it, organize it, in a format acceptable by the database management system in current use.

• Register all data reports in appropriate logbooks and digital templates as required of QMS following WMO guidelines.

• Process the data and analyze it to extract valuable insights and information.

• Identify new sources of data, the period of data reports and develop methods to improve data mining, analysis and reporting.

• Write SQL queries to assist in ensuring the data arrangement by station names, type of data and period is extracted from the database.

To ensure the storage of data is enough and its backup and all are securely accessible;

• Ensure that all stations reports are archived systematically, create new data definitions for new databases and document alterations made to the already existing ones for purposes of improving analysis, archiving and the management.

Fulfill internal and external data requisitions;

• Interpreting data, analyzing results using statistical techniques, graphs or charts

• Identify, analyze, and interpret trends or patterns in complex data sets,

• Present the findings in reports (tables, charts and or graphs)

• Work with management to prioritize business and information needs based on the findings.

• Monitor the performance of data mining system and fix issues arising from the system.

• Keep track of the trends and correlational patterns among complex data sets.

• Perform routine analysis tasks to support day-to-day business functioning and decision making.

• Collaborate with Data quality specialist to develop innovative analytical tools.

• Work in close collaboration with both the data management team and IT team to accomplish the institutional goals.

NB: A professional/technical certificate or one (1) year relevant working experience in cluster computing resources, climate database management systems, climate modeling, Linux/Unix servers, Python programming languages is required on both Master's and Bachelor's degree

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Mathematical Sciences, Big Data, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Computer Systems with 3 Years of relevant experience

• Master's Degree in Data Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Mathematical Science, Big Data, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Computer Systems with 1 Years of relevant experience

Required competencies and key technical skills

• Integrity

• Strong critical thinking skills and excellent problem solving skills

• Inclusiveness

• Accountability

• Communication

• Teamwork

• Client/citizen focus

• Professionalism

• Commitment to continuous learning

• Resource management skills

• Analytical skills

• Problem solving skills

• Decision making skills

• Time management skills

• Performance management skills

• Results oriented

• Digital literacy skills

• Fluency in Kinyarwanda, English and/ or French. Knowledge of all is an added advantage

• Capacity to run scripts, programming languages and manipulating cluster computer;

• Knowledge in quality control, methods of meteorological observations, programming languages

• Data management systems skills

• Data servers and dataset skills

• Ability to provide guidance in weather and climate data processing according to international standards, including WMO guidelines, QMS ISO 9001:2015 and regional/national standard operating procedures

• Ability to operate a large-scale meteorological data handling system

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