Job Title: Accounts Assistant
Organisation: Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development
(MGLSD)
(MGLSD)
Project Name: Uganda Women Entrepreneurship Programme (UWEP)
Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda
Uganda
Reports to: National
Programme Coordinator
Programme Coordinator
About US:
The
Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development (MGLSD) is implementing the
Uganda Women Entrepreneurship Programme (UWEP), an initiative of the Government
of Uganda that is aimed at improving access to financial services by women
entrepreneurs and equipping them with skills for enterprise growth, value
addition and marketing of their products and services. The Programme will be
implemented under three components namely; Capacity and Skills Development, Women
Enterprise Fund for projects and Institutional Support.
Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development (MGLSD) is implementing the
Uganda Women Entrepreneurship Programme (UWEP), an initiative of the Government
of Uganda that is aimed at improving access to financial services by women
entrepreneurs and equipping them with skills for enterprise growth, value
addition and marketing of their products and services. The Programme will be
implemented under three components namely; Capacity and Skills Development, Women
Enterprise Fund for projects and Institutional Support.
Job Summary: The Accounts Assistant will conduct basic
accounting processes to ensure the financial integrity of the programme funds
and to provide consolidated financial plans and reports for the programme as
needed.
accounting processes to ensure the financial integrity of the programme funds
and to provide consolidated financial plans and reports for the programme as
needed.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Financing Systems: Establish financial systems for the
projects that meet the standards set up by Government of Uganda.
projects that meet the standards set up by Government of Uganda.
2. Reporting:
- Prepare timely and submit accurate financial
reports in line with narrative reports that meet the requirements of GOU. - Prepare quarterly consolidated financial
reports, and ad hoc financial reports, as required by GOU. - Ensure that project cash flows (income,
expenditure and fund transfers) are managed in a timely and accurate
manner. - Develop financial performance measures
relevant to the UWEP objectives.
3. Audit Preparedness:
- Facilitate internal and external audit
processes in relation to the project and ensure audit requirements are
monitored throughout the project - Work in liaison with the Programme
Coordinator to ensure that audit recommendations are fulfilled - Support to ensure archiving of the project
documentation for audit at all levels of the project - Support UWEP staff to fulfill the
requirements for internal and external audit.
4. Budget Monitoring:
- Provide timely support the managers in the
use of the financial analysis for sound project management. - Work closely with Managers to monitor the
budget utilization and communicate any issues upwards from partners and
country programmes
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant for the Accounts Assistant job
opportunity should preferably be a Ugandan who holds a Diploma in
Accounting obtained from a recognized institution or a Diploma in Business
studies or Administration with bias in Accounting obtained from a
recognized institution. - A minimum of three years’ experience in
financial management - Competencies: Financial management, Financial
Record keeping, Expenditure management and budgetary control, Plan,
Interpersonal Relations, innovativeness and pro-activism, effective
communication , Information and Communications Technology, Ethics and
integrity.
How to Apply:
All
suitably qualified and interested candidates should send hand deliver their
applications to:
suitably qualified and interested candidates should send hand deliver their
applications to:
The
Permanent Secretary,
Permanent Secretary,
Ministry
of Gender, Labour & Social Developments,
of Gender, Labour & Social Developments,
Plot
2, Simbamanyo House, George Street,
2, Simbamanyo House, George Street,
P.O.
Box 7136, Kampala, Uganda
Box 7136, Kampala, Uganda
Deadline: 27th May 2016 by 3:00pm
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