Job Title: Accountant (2 Job Placements)
Organisation: ACLAIM Africa Limited
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Salary Scale: UGX 2,500,000 /=
Reports to: Finance Manager
About US:
ACLAIM Africa Limited is a leadership and management consulting firm.
They would like to recruit for a valuable client, a key player in the
Hospitality Industry.
They would like to recruit for a valuable client, a key player in the
Hospitality Industry.
Job Summary: The Accountant
will ensure that the organisation has a robust and excellent accounting system
that enables consistently accurate, timely and reliable financial reporting to
meet different stakeholder requirements.
will ensure that the organisation has a robust and excellent accounting system
that enables consistently accurate, timely and reliable financial reporting to
meet different stakeholder requirements.
Key Duties and
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities:
Strategy Planning and Implementation:
- Provide input into the Strategic Planning
process. - Provide input into the Budgeting Process,
especially with respect to costs that do not relate to a specific
department. - Record approved budget in Accounting
Software.
Financial Accounting and Internal Controls:
- Support and implement an internal control
systems that safeguards company assets. - Review all payment requisitions and
supporting documents for completeness, accuracy and authenticity before
preparing payment vouchers. - Record all company financial transactions
in the Accounting Software accurately, timely and efficiently to enhance
reliable financial reports for decision-making. - Ensure that financial transactions are
filed appropriately, both physically and electronically, to enhance easy
retrieval. - Follow up and review staff operational advance
accountabilities to ensure that they are timely, reasonable and well
supported. - Receive client advances appropriately in
Accounting System and prepare accurate Tax Invoices against them for
income recognition. - Prepare timely and accurate bank reconciliation
statements to ensure that errors or irregularities in the cashbooks or
bank accounts are handled appropriately. - Ensure that the financial transactions in
the accounting software are backed-up regularly. - Carry out fixed asset accounting including
managing the fixed assets register.
Management Accounting and Reporting
- Prepare and present analyzed monthly
financial reports to management - Prepare and present analyzed quarterly
financial reports to Finance Manager for release to the Board - Ensure that expenditure is in accordance
with the budget.
Working Capital Management
- Prepare and monitor monthly cash flow
forecasts. - Follow up clients for payment.
Tax Management:
- During payroll preparation, ensure correct
deductions are made including the non-statutory and statutory (PAYE, LST
and NSSF). - Correctly maintain PAYE, WHT, LST and NSSF
Control Accounts in the Accounting Software and reconcile them monthly. - Ensure timely submission and timely
payment of PAYE, WHT, LST and NSSF returns to the relevant authorities. - Prepare and submit WHT Certificates to
parties from whom taxes are withheld.
Audit Management:
- Prepare company financial statements for
statutory external audit. - Adequately prepare for external and
internal audits and offer the required support during the exercise. - Follow up and resolve issues raised from
external and internal audits.
People Management:
- Manage performance of staff supervised
including goal setting, regular feedback sessions and appraisals. - Understand and address the training needs
of staff supervised. - Ensure discipline within the staff
supervised.
General:
- Undertake reasonable requests made by
company including flexible hours, location and responsibilities. - Ensure knowledge of and compliance to all
policies of the company. - Adhere to company values of excellence,
integrity and professionalism.
Key Performance Indicators:
- Monthly Bank Reconciliation completed and
available for review by 5th date of the following month. - Monthly Statutory returns filed by 10th
date of the following month and payment by the 14th of the following
month. - All staff operational advances properly
reconciled with outstanding advances not exceeding 30 days or else,
escalated. - Monthly finance report submitted by 13th
date of the following month - Facilitate annual external audit and close
with unqualified audit report opinion by 30th October of every year.
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience:
Experience:
- The applicant must hold a Bachelor’s
Degree in Accounting or related field - 2nd stage of full ACCA/CPA qualification
- Proficiency in use of QuickBooks
accounting software. - Three years of accounting experience.
- Excellent oral and written communication
skills. - Experience in the hospitality sector is an
added advantage. - Highly organized and disciplined.
- High attention to detail.
- Leader of self and others.
- Personable and good team player.
- Committed to learning and to training
others.
How to Apply:
All candidates should apply online at the link below.
Deadline: 13th April 2018
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