Accountant

**Publication Starting Date**:Aug 8, 2025

**Location**: Lyon, France

**Company**:Interpol

**Vacancy Notice**1333**

INTERPOL is the world’s largest international police organization, with 196 Member Countries. Created in 1923, it facilitates cross-border police co-operation, and supports and assists all organizations, authorities, and services whose mission is to prevent or combat international crime.

Job Title: Accountant
Reporting To: Treasury Coordinator
Location: Lyon
Type of contract: Fixed-term Contract
Duration (in months): 12.00 - maximum contract duration until 31 December 2026
Grade: 6
Number of post:1
Level of Security screening: Basic

**SUMMARY OF THE ASSIGNED DUTIES,**INCLUDING GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE POST**

Within the Executive Directorate Resource Management (EDRM) Finance and Corporate Services (FCS)/Treasury And Supplier Payment unit, and reporting directly to the Treasury Coordinator, the incumbent is in charge of:

- Maintaining Books of Accounts of the Organization, and recording therein all accounting entries relating to Incomes and Expenditures, Assets and Liabilities;
- Carrying out operations on the financial assets of the Organization;
- Providing information and reconciliations on general accounting and financial accounting transactions;
- Implementing software solutions and information systems;
- Other duties as required.

**PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND ACTIVITIES**

**DUTY 1/Mission 1**

**Maintenance of Books of Accounts of the Organization, and recording therein all accounting entries relating to Incomes and Expenditures, Assets and Liabilities,** including for the Regional Bureaus, Liaison Offices of the Organization and for INTERPOL Global Complex for Innovation, and for the various Funds of the Organization and for the externally-funded projects executed by it.

Prior to such recording, verify by reasonable means, whether all appropriate internal approvals have been complied with and if the supporting documentation are complete and apparently authentic, and ensure that they are as per prevalent policies, relevant accounting principles, applicable International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) or other International Accounting Standards, and in total compliance with Interpol’s Financial Regulations.

Carry out rectification entries and restatements to the accounts, ensuring compliance with accounting policy and principles, relevant IPSAS and total conformity with Interpol’s Financial Regulations.

Maintain strict accuracy in recording all transactions, observe the principle of providing an audit trail, and adhere to timelines and schedules that maybe issued from time to time.

**DUTY 2/Mission 2**

**Carrying out operations on the financial assets of the Organization**, including its cash and bank accounts, that maybe held in various currencies, and maintaining written records of all such operations including posting them into the books of accounts.

Provide periodic reconciliations of such books with the relevant bank statements, including for those at the Regional Bureaus, Liaison Offices and for INTERPOL Global Complex for Innovation; and also for the various Funds of the Organization and for the externally-funded projects, assets of which may be held in individually distinguished bank accounts.

Carry out treasury operations and responsibility for maintenance of optimal cash and bank balances for the Organization, in various currencies; verify their safe upkeep and their timely replenishment, including transfers of funds between locations and bank accounts.

Ensure timely payments via electronic transfers after suitable accounting and control; carrying out cash disbursements and receipts, requesting bank payment orders and cheques, depositions of funds into Bank accounts, including in different currencies, in a reliable manner after ensuring appropriate internal approvals, complete supporting documentation and verifying the apparent authenticity of each transaction, and preparing reconciliations where recorded balances are at variance from one another.

Prepare, check and monitor cash-flow statements and cash in hand, including for different currencies, in an accurate and timely manner.

**DUTY 3/Mission 3**

**Providing information and reconciliations on general accounting and financial accounting transactions**, including provision of details and reconciliations to Management, and to internal and external auditors.

Maintain liaison with officials of banks and financial institutions to obtain day-to-day information on exchange and interest rates, changes in procedures and Regulations, and matters pertaining to maintenance of the Organization’s bank accounts.

Monitor bank charges levied by the various banks of the Organization for transactions conducted through them, and alert the Treasury Coordinator and the hierarchy to specific issues of wrong charges or debits, delayed credits, or generally prolonged or delayed completion of transactions.

**DUTY 4/Missi