Job Title: Accountants (2 Career Vacancies)
Organisation: Uganda Industrial Research Institute (UIRI)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Head of Accounts
About UIRI:
Uganda Industrial Research Institute is Uganda Government’s lead agency
for industrialization, established by an Act of Parliament of Uganda under the
auspices of the Ministry of Trade Industry and cooperatives (MTIC). It is the
country’s main vehicle for implementing strategies and measures aimed at
transforming industry in Uganda.
for industrialization, established by an Act of Parliament of Uganda under the
auspices of the Ministry of Trade Industry and cooperatives (MTIC). It is the
country’s main vehicle for implementing strategies and measures aimed at
transforming industry in Uganda.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Develop a database for all income and
expenditure accounts - Timely updates of the budget and share
with key implementation partners. - Prepare periodic accounts receivable and
payable returns - Reconcile revenue and expenditure reports
- Manager NTR records (Revenue and expenses)
- Verify and validate expenditure and
credits with statements of accounts and initial invoices - Guide the coding and maintenance of
financial records - Prepare financial reports such as revenue
summaries, Non tax revenues and trail balance reports - Review, prepare and submit monthly bank
reconciliations. - Detect, prevent and report fraud /
fraudulent attempts (forensic accounting) - Respond to routine account information
queries - Actively participate in the implementation
of accounting and UIRI internal controls - Prepare ledgers and trail balance for the
institute - Post the abstract of revenue and
expenditure - Update asset register.
- Prepare and analyse periodic releases,
expenditures, balance sheet and cash flows for Uganda Petroleum Institute Kigumba
(UPIK) and UIRI projects.
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience:
Experience:
- The candidate must possess a Bachelor’s
degree from a recognized university in any of the following: B.COM,
Business Administration with Accounting/ Finance major. - Additional professional qualification in
accounting like CPA, ACCA or any other accountancy professional body is an
added advantage. - The applicant must possess three years’
experience with knowledge of government accounting procedures. - Excellent analytical and report writing
skills. - Excellent computer literacy skills in MS
Office suite and quick at mastering systems. - Possess the ability to meet strict
deadlines.
Age: 28-40 years
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified candidates are required to send their
applications including handwritten applications with copies of academic
credentials and detailed curriculum vitae indicating telephone, email
addresses, contact addresses of referees should be forwarded to the address
below;
applications including handwritten applications with copies of academic
credentials and detailed curriculum vitae indicating telephone, email
addresses, contact addresses of referees should be forwarded to the address
below;
Executive Director,
Uganda Industrial Research Institute,
Plot 42a Mukabya Road- Nakawa Industrial,
P.O. Box 7086, Kampala –Uganda
Deadline: 21st March 2014.
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