Position Title: Finance Officer

Department: Finance

Reports To: Senior Finance Manager

Location: Remote / Outside Afghanistan

Vacancy No: AF-N-09-2026

Closing date: February 7, 2026

AUAF Background:

The American University of Afghanistan is Afghanistan’s only nationally accredited, private, not-for- profit, non-partisan, and coeducational institution of higher education. It opened its doors in 2006 with an initial enrollment of 50 students, and since that time has grown to enroll more than 1,700 full- and part- time students across undergraduate, graduate, and professional training programs. Despite a changing political and security climate in Afghanistan, AUAF has successfully lived up to its mission to provide equal access to high-quality higher education across gender, ethnicity, and socio-economic background. Nearly half of our undergraduate students are female, and generous support from the U.S. government and other funding partners as allowed us to support a secure, inclusive, residential campus environment in Kabul. Our professional community comprises a diverse, talented Afghan and international faculty and staff who work together in support of our students and toward a sustainable, ambitious future for the provision of American-style education in Afghanistan.

Position Summary

The Finance Officer’s responsibilities include but are not limited to, ensuring timely and quality reporting, facilitating grant opening and closeout processes, maintaining grants-related information and files, supporting proposal development processes, managing reporting deadlines, producing high-quality financial reports and donor updates, and developing internal and external communication materials. He/she will also help support monthly, quarterly & annual grant reviews and budget

review meetings in close collaboration with the Development department, Senior Finance Manager and Director of Finance And any other task assigned by the supervisor.

Key outcomes include:

• Manage routine tasks as directed by finance policies and the line manager.

• Fulfil the designated goal set by the finance office.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure timely submission of donors monthly & quarterly reports

• Prepare & submit FAUAF scholarship reports to the Development Office

• Act as scholarship data focal point on relevant information and dissemination platform with various departments.

• Edit and review collected reports and refer to relevant reporting focal points for missing information, clarification of inconsistencies, and correction of inaccuracies.

• Compile and format reports as required.

• Maintain a backup file of donors reports produced and submitted.

• Attend unit and other meetings as required.

• Work closely with the development and finance teams to develop standard reporting templates and a reporting calendar for all donors and other scholarship report submissions.

• Share Email reminders each month with reporting templates that will support timely donor submissions of financial reports

• Lead, follow up, and coordinate the timely close out of donors grants.

• Extract financial reports from Power Campus and properly maintain accounting entries in Business Central.

• Assist the Student Finance office during the Power Campus assessment processes.

• Record the receivable entries in Business Central.

• Monthly & annually reconcile Power Campus with Business Central.

• Reconcile donor reports with Power Campus & Business Central records.

• Cooperate and assist the finance team in the audit requisitions.

• Any other tasks assigned by the supervisor.

Qualifications :

• Bachelor's Degree with 7 years of experience

• Accounting application/ERP. Microsoft Business Central (BC) is preferred/desired.

Skills:

• Teamwork

• Work under pressure

• Strong MS Excel skills are desired.

How to apply

To Apply

To apply for this position, please fill out the job application through the AUAF job portal link : https://auaf.webhr.co/hr/careers. Applications in languages other than English will not be reviewed.

Please ensure you add your resume as an attachment.

Please be advised that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If hired, the successful applicant is expected to provide official proof of academic degrees.

AUAF does not charge recruitment fees to applicants. AUAF is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity at all levels. AUAF follows a strict non-discriminatory policy in its selection and employment practices. All applicants will receive equal consideration, and applicants from all ethnic, religious and economic backgrounds are encouraged to apply.