Management Accountant NGO Jobs – Uganda Women’s Effort to Save Orphans (UWESO)

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Job Title:       Management Accountant
Organization: Uganda Women’s Effort to Save Orphans (UWESO)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Head of Operations   
About US:
Uganda
Women’s Effort to Save Orphans (UWESO) is a national non-government
organization which was founded in 1986 by Ugandan mothers committed to
providing relief aid to needy children left parentless by the civil turbulence
of the mid-1980’s and the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Job Summary: The Management Accountant will be tasked with the
preparation and submission of accurate and timely internal reports to
management for effective decision making and conduct budgeting while ensuring
that budgetary controls are in place and costs are minimized.
Key Duties and Responsibilities: 
  • Ensure prompt and effective accounting and
    management of revenue/cash
  • Compile and analyze financial information to
    prepare entries to accounts, such as general ledger accounts, and document
    business transactions.
  • Receive and review income analysis reports
    from UWESO entities
  • Keenly review posting of all journal entries
    and check them  to ensure proper
    transaction allocations in the General Ledger 
  • Regularly review and/or prepare daily, weekly
    and monthly cash returns 
  • Keenly monitor the budget lines to ensure
    that all activities are in line with annual budgets 
  • Support heads of departments in preparing and
    reviewing budgets
  • Ensure timely closure of books of accounts in
    preparation for the audit process
  • Establish, maintain, and coordinate the
    implementation of accounting and accounting  control procedures
  • Manage subordinates and ensure a competent
    and motivated team
  • Make periodic field visits to provide
    technical assistance to Regional Accountants to ensure that work is done
    according to set policies and procedures 
  • Actively participate in the preparation of
    the annual report         
Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 
  • The ideal candidate should hold a Bachelor’s
    degree in Commerce (Finance and Accounting option), Business
    Administration (Finance and Accounting option) or equivalent
  • Professional accounting certification like
    Association of Chartered Certified Accountant (ACCA), Certified Public
    Accountant (CPA)
  • At least three years’ working experience in
    similar post in a reputable NGO setting
  • Ability to use financial and accounting
    software applications (Navision is a MUST)
  • Good team player.
  • Proven ability to work with minimum
    supervision.
  • High degree of personal integrity.
  • Excellent analytical and report writing
    skills.
  • Ability to attend to detail, focus on quality
    and spot errors or mistakes at an early stage
How to Apply:
All
suitably qualified candidates are encouraged to send their applications with
certified copies of academic transcripts, detailed CVs with salary history,
contact addresses of three professional referees to:
Human
Resource Officer,
Uganda
Women’s Effort to Save Orphans,
Plot
2 Tagore Crescent, Kamwokya,
P.O.
Box 8419, Kampala. Uganda
Or
Email to: jobs@uweso.org. (All email applications should be in a single PDF
file of maximum size – 5MB)
Deadline:  22nd July
2016

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