The Ugandan Jobline

• Provide support in the finance, grants and
  contracts functions of the office that includes review of advance and
  payment requests, ensuring accuracy, proper coding, completeness, budget
  availability, adequacy of supporting documents and adherence to IH and
  donor policies and procedures.
• Prepare and submit approved monthly cash
  advances requests to Chapel Hill by the 25th of every month in a bid to
  ensure availability of adequate cash to meet the programmed obligations
  and commitments.
• The incumbent will compile the field
  monthly accruals and forwards the same to Finance-Chapel Hill by the 8th
  day of the month for inclusion in the centralized financial report.
• Provide support to Program teams to build
  their capacity in the financial management of their activities and to
  ensure that they are equipped with the information and skills that allow
  them to interpret activity budgets, prepare accurate projections, and
  ensure that they remain current of all activity expenditures.
• Ensures that all procurements are in
  compliance with donor and organizational rules and regulations

• Provide support to work planning and
  budgeting for program teams.
• Provides leadership to the project team on
  budget development and monitoring through established mechanisms and
  updates the management team on most up to date and accurate budget verses
  expenditure status.
• Support the project team to link periodic
  projections to budgets, performance targets and deliverables.
• Respond to requests from the HQ office to
  input and update revenue budgets in the web-based budgeting tool, IHBIRD.

• Monitoring of project budgets.
• Compilation of the quarterly USAID accrual
  report, ensuring that the latter is completed by the 7th of the last month
  of each quarter.
• Aligning of the quarterly accrual report
  with the pipeline to assess the remaining pipeline as at that date, and
  feeding this information back to the Project Leadership Team, FMO and the
  program teams.
• Compilation of other regular and ad hoc
  financial reports that may be requested by USAID, IntraHealth HQ , the
  Chief of Party, or the FMO.
• Serves as the custodian of the approved
  annual budgets.

• The applicants for the USAID RHITES-E
  Finance Manager career opportunity must hold a Bachelor’s degree (Masters
  preferred) in accounting, finance, or business administration and holder
  of CPA III.
• Certified Public Accountant
• At least five years’ experience in a busy
  accounting department.
• Extensive knowledge of FAR and AIDAR and
  Ugandan government laws and regulations.
• Previous experience interpreting and
  applying USAID rules and regulations.
• Previous experience in donor-funded
  organizations preferred.
• Good interpersonal and capacity-building
  skills.
• High degree of integrity
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Excellent oral and written communication
  skills.
• Ability to work under tight deadlines and
  to multi-task.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Ability to mentor and coach colleagues
  lacking financial education/training.
• Excellent skills using Quickbooks, MS
  Word, Excel, and Power point

• Managing
  Performance: Ability to plan and design practices, processes and
  procedures that allow for effective management of people, resources and
  processes to optimize overall organizational performance. Managing for
  performance includes the ability to delegate and encourage growth and
  leadership across the team(s) as part of maximizing performance and
  productivity.
• Strategic Thinking: Applies
  organizational knowledge to identify and maintain focus on key success
  factors for IntraHealth while recognizing, anticipating and resolving
  organizational challenges. Ability to develop organization- and
  industry-specific expertise and apply sound decision making processes to
  reach productive resolutions that translates strategy into actionable
  business plans.
• Effective Communication (Oral &
  Written): Understands effective communication concepts, tools and
  techniques; ability to effectively transmit, explain complex technical
  concepts in simple, clear language appropriate to the audience; and
  receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through
  the application of appropriate communication behaviors
• Risk Management: Knowledge of
  processes, tools and techniques for assessing and controlling the
  organization’s exposure to risks of various kinds; ability to apply this
  knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.
• Willingness to travel at least throughout
  the region to work with partners and key stakeholders
• Willingness and ability to work independently
  with all stakeholders
• Willingness to accept additional
  responsibilities

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