Finance Manager Job Career at Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM)

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Job Title: Finance Manager
Organisation: Regional
Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM)
Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda
Reports to: Deputy Executive
Secretary
About ROFORUM:
Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture
(RUFORUM) to recruit qualified and competent staff for its Secretariat based in
Kampala, Uganda. RUFORUM was established in 2004 with vision to create a
vibrant agricultural sector linked to African universities, which can produce
high- performing graduates and high-quality research which is responsive to the
demands of Africa’s farmers for innovations; and able to generate sustainable
livelihoods and national economic development.
RUFORUM has established partnerships and operates with a consortium of
32 universities in eighteen countries in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa
to achieve its mission. The countries include Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique,
Ethiopia, Malawi, Burundi, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),
Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Sudan, South Sudan, South
Africa and Namibia.
Job Summary: The Finance
Manager will be responsible for providing financial advice and support to the
Secretariat and partners to inform sound business decisions.
Key Duties and
Responsibilities: 
  • Develop & put in place financial
    control systems and procedures in accordance with regulations and professional
    accounting standards
  • Prepare annual accounts within the
    deadline in accordance with professional accounting standards, and prepare
    quarterly financial reports
  • Play an advisory role to both the Board
    and RUFORUM Management on the financial performance of RUFORUM projects in
    accordance with the approved budgets and reporting guidelines
  • Facilitate external audit of RUFORUM
  • Oversee the maintenance of accounting
    records, vouchers and other documentation, and record all financial
    transactions of RUFORUM in line with financial procedures and accounting
    standards
  • Prepare business plans in order to
    identify and focus on the strategies to achieve financial sustainability
    in line with the strategic plan.
  • Prepare quarterly financial reports and
    advise management on the financial performance of RUFORUM in accordance
    with the approved budgets and reporting guidelines
  • Ensure that all financial commitments and
    payments by RUFORUM are properly authorized, settled in a timely manner
    and for value received, in accordance with financial regulations and
    policies
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience: 
  • The ideal candidate should possess a University
    degree in Business Administration or Bachelor of Commerce, specializing in
    finance or accounting.
  • Possess postgraduate qualifications in any
    of the above mentioned fields should have an additional professional
    qualification such ACCA or CPA.
How to Apply: 
All suitably qualified and interested candidates should send their
applications with detailed curriculum vitae, copies of certificates,
transcripts, names of three professional referees and the applicant’s telephone
contact should be sent electronically on-line in pdf form to:
Dama Consultants Limited 10th Floor Uganda House P.O. Box 3967 Kampala
Uganda
Tel: +256-414-235 944; +256-70-4843380 Email:
damaconsultantsltd@gmail.com
Deadline: 2nd June 2014.

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