Job Title: Accountant
Organization: Comprehensive
Rehabilitation Services in Uganda (CORSU)
Rehabilitation Services in Uganda (CORSU)
Duty Station: Entebbe,
Uganda
Uganda
About US:
Comprehensive Rehabilitation Services in Uganda (for people with
disability) was established in 2006 as a private non-profit, non-governmental
organization and is supported by CBM (Christian Blind Mission). CoRSU
Rehabilitation Hospital and Rehabilitation Centre on Entebbe Road provides
Orthopaedic Surgery, Plastic Surgery and Rehabilitation, mainly for children
with disability.
disability) was established in 2006 as a private non-profit, non-governmental
organization and is supported by CBM (Christian Blind Mission). CoRSU
Rehabilitation Hospital and Rehabilitation Centre on Entebbe Road provides
Orthopaedic Surgery, Plastic Surgery and Rehabilitation, mainly for children
with disability.
Job Summary: The Accountant
will mainly ensure accurate, comprehensive and truthful record of financial
transactions in the hospital according to the accepted standards and practices
of accounting and to produce financial information apt at securing a smooth
management of the hospital finances by the members of the Management Team.
will mainly ensure accurate, comprehensive and truthful record of financial
transactions in the hospital according to the accepted standards and practices
of accounting and to produce financial information apt at securing a smooth
management of the hospital finances by the members of the Management Team.
Key Duties and
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities:
- Actively participate in the preparation
and presentation of Hospital Annual Budget for approval. - Ensure that expenditures are in line with
the budget. - The jobholder will prepare and implement
periodic cash flow projections. - Manage all Cash Receipts and Payments.
- Ensure that Cash Receipts and Payments
Journals are written up daily and balanced. - Ensure that Daily/Monthly Reconciliations
are done for Cash at Hand, at Bank, Debtors, Creditors, and other
subsidiary accounts. - Prepare and present monthly summary
reports of income and expenditure in the formats required by the HMIS
before the third day of the following month. - Prepare financial status report whenever
required by the SMT. - Prepare a detailed comprehensive Annual
Financial Report, inclusive of monetary value of stocks and fixed assets. - Maintain proper and updated record of
hospital assets (fixed and movable). - Provide timely/appropriate financial
advice to the Hospital Management Team on recommended improvements in
financial accountability. - Maintain accurate and updated payroll in
line with the HR Manual and secure punctual payment of salaries
accompanied by clear payslips. - Ensure that statutory regulations on pay
are adhered to and deductions are remitted to the concerned authority
before the 15th of each month. - Ensure that general fiscal regulations are
adhered to and that statutory payments are effected within the set time
limits. - Follow-up Debtors and ensure that all
Creditors bills are settled promptly. - Actively facilitate the work of the Auditors.
- The incumbent facilitates periodical stock
taking. - Explore professional ways of improving the
financial management system. - Ensure that accounting procedures are
clearly explained in an accounting/financial manual and that such manual
is updated whenever procedural changes are introduced - Maintains close links with the Hospital
Record staff in view of securing reconciliation of financial information
with activity information - Maintains close links with the hospital
stores and pharmacy to ascertain proper keeping of records in view of
securing proper harmony between procurement and financial availability. - Maintains close links with the funders to
ensure that donor funds are properly managed and reported on.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant should preferably hold a
BCom, BBA, BBAM or equivalent - A minimum of two years of related work
experience as an accountant with good record of service. - Member of the professional accounting body
CPAU or ACCA - Advanced computer literacy in word
processors and spreadsheet. - The position demands hard work,
commitment, honesty, transparency, confidentiality and capacity to gear
the work of the account section of the hospital towards the functioning of
the hospital as a whole.
How to Apply:
All candidates are encouraged to
send and application letter and updated CV along with the contacts of three
professional referees to: The Director, Future Options Consulting Ltd, 4th
Floor, DTB Centre, Kampala Road, P.O. Box 34934, Kampala, Uganda by post,
courier or email to: [email protected]
send and application letter and updated CV along with the contacts of three
professional referees to: The Director, Future Options Consulting Ltd, 4th
Floor, DTB Centre, Kampala Road, P.O. Box 34934, Kampala, Uganda by post,
courier or email to: [email protected]
Deadline: 19th December 2016 by
5.00pm
5.00pm
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