Job
Title: Finance Manager
Title: Finance Manager
Organization: QED Group, LLC
Project: USAID/Uganda Monitoring, Evaluation and
Learning Project
Learning Project
Duty
Station: Kampala, Uganda
Station: Kampala, Uganda
About
QED:
QED:
The QED Group, LLC is a
full-service international development firm that provides practical solutions
to social problems through sound analysis, proven management techniques, and
creative implementation. We focus our efforts on two core practice areas:
Monitoring & Evaluation and Knowledge Management. We work with U.S.
agencies and overseas governments, international donors, private-sector
clients, and PVOs/NGOs in more than 80 countries around the world. Key clients
include USAID, the U.S. Department of State, the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the U.S. Trade and
Development Agency.
full-service international development firm that provides practical solutions
to social problems through sound analysis, proven management techniques, and
creative implementation. We focus our efforts on two core practice areas:
Monitoring & Evaluation and Knowledge Management. We work with U.S.
agencies and overseas governments, international donors, private-sector
clients, and PVOs/NGOs in more than 80 countries around the world. Key clients
include USAID, the U.S. Department of State, the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the U.S. Trade and
Development Agency.
About
Project:
Project:
This project is the
organizational program support vehicle through which USAID/Uganda will pursue
realizing its development objectives within the complicated and shifting
Ugandan development context. The purpose of the Learning Contract is to provide
monitoring, evaluation and learning support services and build capacity of
USAID/Uganda to implement USAID’s Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting
methodology to strengthen the implementation of USAID/Uganda’s Country
Development Cooperation Strategy and enhance USAID’s organizational effectiveness.
organizational program support vehicle through which USAID/Uganda will pursue
realizing its development objectives within the complicated and shifting
Ugandan development context. The purpose of the Learning Contract is to provide
monitoring, evaluation and learning support services and build capacity of
USAID/Uganda to implement USAID’s Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting
methodology to strengthen the implementation of USAID/Uganda’s Country
Development Cooperation Strategy and enhance USAID’s organizational effectiveness.
Job
Summary: The Finance
Manager will support the Chief of Party (COP) in overseeing all financial
management aspects of the project in compliance with USAID and QED regulations.
Summary: The Finance
Manager will support the Chief of Party (COP) in overseeing all financial
management aspects of the project in compliance with USAID and QED regulations.
Key
Duties and Responsibilities:
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Supervises
the day-to-day financial management and accounting of the Learning
Contract at the field level; - Maintains
and manages field office accounts, in coordination with QED headquarters
(HQ); - Prepares
and tracks project budgets and budget projections; - Reviews
vouchers and payment requests, including proper back-up documentation to
ensure compliance with QED policies and procedures and USAID rules and
regulations; - Manages
procurement of project supplies, services, and other items in accordance
with USAID rules and regulations; ensures that project assets are properly
labeled, inventoried, maintained and disposed of as necessary. - Ensures
timely payments to staff, consultants, and vendors; - Calculates
and issues payroll; calculates and submits payroll taxes to the proper
Ugandan authorities; - Maintains
complete, accurate and timely financial records in compliance with USAID
and QED policies and procedures; prepares and submits monthly financial
reports as directed by QED headquarters in timely manner - Maintains
and oversees internal controls with direction from Director of Finance in
HQ; - Prepares
estimates of monthly cash requirements and submits to QED project
coordinator; - Ensures
that funds are efficiently transferred from headquarters to field office
and funding is available to support timely payment of all project and
operations costs; - Manages
project bank accounts, reconciles monthly accounts and bank statements;
submits receipts and invoices to QED; - Coordinates
with QED’s local legal and accounting advisors; serves as liaison between
local external auditing authorities and QED headquarters; - Treasury
management, including daily supervision of cash position and accounts and
petty cash; - Management
of field office financial filing system (both paper and electronic), in
coordination with QED.
Qualifications,
Skills and Experience:
Skills and Experience:
- The
applicant should be a Ugandan citizen; - At
least eight (8) years of financial management experience; - Prior
experience working on USAID & US Government-funded programs in finance
and administration; - Bachelor’s
Degree, in Accounting, Finance or related discipline; Advanced degree
preferred; - Excellent
knowledge of Ugandan accounting and tax requirements and USAID rules and
regulations regarding accounting, finance, procurement, and human
resources management; - Strong
organizational and interpersonal skills; - Good
computer skills including excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office applications,
particularly Excel; - Effective
communication skills, including excellent English language skills; - Ability
to establish and maintain effective work relationships with supervisor,
headquarters, co-workers, and other project staff; - Professional
integrity and discretion in the handling of confidential information and
data.
How
to Apply:
to Apply:
All candidates should
follow the instructions and please click the “Apply
Now” link and follow the application instructions below.
follow the instructions and please click the “Apply
Now” link and follow the application instructions below.
Send your current resume
and cover letter.
and cover letter.
Complete and submit the
attached 1420
biodata sheet and Instruction
Set and
attached 1420
biodata sheet and Instruction
Set and
Complete and submit the
attached Voluntary Self-ID Form.
attached Voluntary Self-ID Form.
Applications submitted by
other means will not be considered. Please note only finalists will be
contacted. Accessibility Notice: If you need a reasonable accommodation for any
part of the employment process due to a physical or mental disability, please
send an email to: [email protected].
other means will not be considered. Please note only finalists will be
contacted. Accessibility Notice: If you need a reasonable accommodation for any
part of the employment process due to a physical or mental disability, please
send an email to: [email protected].
Reasonable accommodation
requests will be considered on a case-by case
requests will be considered on a case-by case
Deadline:
29th October, 2013
29th October, 2013
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