UWEP Accounts Assistant Career Jobs – Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development (MGLSD)

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Job Title:     Accounts Assistant
Organisation: Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development
(MGLSD)
Project Name: Uganda Women Entrepreneurship Programme (UWEP)
Duty Station:  Kampala,
Uganda
Reports to:  National
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.
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.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 
1. Financing Systems:  Establish financial systems for the
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:
The
Permanent Secretary,
Ministry
of Gender, Labour & Social Developments,
Plot
2, Simbamanyo House, George Street,
P.O.
Box 7136, Kampala, Uganda
Deadline: 27th May 2016 by 3:00pm

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