Job Title: Finance Manager
Organisation: ACLAIM Africa Limited
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Salary Scale: UGX 6,500,000 /=
Reports to: General Manager
– Corporate Services
– Corporate Services
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 Finance
Manager 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.
Manager 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. - Design costing profile for the Lodges and
advise on pricing to ensure a balance between competitiveness and
profitability. - Develop budget preparation templates,
share with the different department heads and guide them through the
budgeting process. - Consolidate the different department
budgets into a master budget for presentation to Management and the Board
Audit Committee. - Relay approved budgets to Accountants for
recording in the Accounting Software.
Financial Accounting and Internal Controls:
- Support and implement internal control
systems that safeguard GLS assets. - Lead the receipt, discussion and
prioritization of payment requisitions in the weekly cash flow forecasting
meetings. - Review and approve all payment vouchers
with adequate supporting documents. - Review all financial transactions recorded
in the Accounting Software to ensure that they are accurately, timely and
efficiently captured to enhance reliable financial reports for
decision-making. - Monitor the staff operational advance
accounts on a monthly basis to ensure that they are kept at a minimum. - Review and approve tax invoices before
submission to clients. - Review bank reconciliation statements to
ensure that errors or irregularities in the cashbooks or bank accounts are
handled timely. - Have custody of the external back-ups of
financial transactions in the Accounting Software. - Ensure that Accountants maintain up to
date fixed assets register.
Management Accounting and Reporting:
- Review monthly financial reports before
being presented to management - Prepare and present analyzed quarterly
financial reports to Board Audit Committee.
Working capital Management:
- Prepare and monitor quarterly cash flow
forecasts. - Take the lead in debtor follow up to
ensure alignment to credit policy.
Tax Management:
- Review monthly payroll to ensure
completeness, accuracy and timeliness - Monitor the tax tracker to ensure that
Accountants are preparing, submitting and paying all relevant taxes and
statutory payments (PAYE, LST, Corporate Tax, VAT and NSSF) timely. - Review tax control accounts in Accounting
Software to ensure that they are cleared. - Provide technical expertise to the company
for tax planning.
Audit Management:
- Review all prepared files for statutory
external audit before submission to the auditors. - 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. - Carry out analysis of audited financial
statements and present the same to the BOD Audit Committee.
People Management:
- Manage performance of staff supervised
including goal setting, regular feedback sessions and appraisals. - Obtain understanding 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 GLS values of excellence,
integrity and professionalism.
Key Performance Indicators:
- Monthly Bank Reconciliation reviewed by
10th date of the following month. - Budget approved before the commencement of
the year. - All monthly statutory returns filed by
10th date of the following month and payment by the 14th of the following
month. - Accurate and reliable quarterly finance
report submitted by the 15th date of the following month. - Unqualified opinion in audit report by 30th
October of every year.
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience:
Experience:
- The applicant must hold a Bachelors’
Degree in Accounting or related field - Full ACCA / CPA qualification
- Six years of accounting experience with
minimum 3 in a Managerial position. - Excellent oral and written communication
skills. - Experience in the hospitality sector is an
added advantage. - Proficiency in use of QuickBooks
accounting software. - 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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