Job Title: Accountant
Organisation: The Consortium for Enhancing University Responsiveness to Agribusiness
Development Limited (CURAD)
Development Limited (CURAD)
Duty Station:
Makerere University Agricultural Research Institute at Kabanyolo, Uganda
Makerere University Agricultural Research Institute at Kabanyolo, Uganda
About US:
The Consortium for
enhancing University Responsiveness to Agribusiness Development limited (CURAD)
is a public-private partnership initiative promoted by the Makerere University;
the National Union of Coffee Agribusinesses and Farm Enterprises (NUCAFE) and
the National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO). The mission of CURAD is
to produce young innovative and skillful agribusiness incubatee Enterprises
through strategic partnerships that support training, mentoring and holistic
business development CURAD is an agribusiness incubation centre based at the
Makerere University Agricultural Research Institute at Kabanyolo. The key outputs
of the incubator are mainly young skilled entrepreneurs, profitable enterprises
and technological innovations and its target areas are the coffee and
horticulture value chains. The objective is to improve the efficiency of
marketing, to improve the quality of the product and to capture more value
added products in coffee and horticultural crops in ways that will increase
returns to the producers and create jobs locally.
enhancing University Responsiveness to Agribusiness Development limited (CURAD)
is a public-private partnership initiative promoted by the Makerere University;
the National Union of Coffee Agribusinesses and Farm Enterprises (NUCAFE) and
the National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO). The mission of CURAD is
to produce young innovative and skillful agribusiness incubatee Enterprises
through strategic partnerships that support training, mentoring and holistic
business development CURAD is an agribusiness incubation centre based at the
Makerere University Agricultural Research Institute at Kabanyolo. The key outputs
of the incubator are mainly young skilled entrepreneurs, profitable enterprises
and technological innovations and its target areas are the coffee and
horticulture value chains. The objective is to improve the efficiency of
marketing, to improve the quality of the product and to capture more value
added products in coffee and horticultural crops in ways that will increase
returns to the producers and create jobs locally.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- The Accountant is responsible and accountable to the organization
for setting up and maintenance of professional financial accounting
systems; - Principal technical Advisor to the Managing Director and management
on all matters of financial management. - Provides advice and guidance on all financial issues regarding CURAD
and conduct systematic reviews, reconciliations of all financial
operations of the organization, providing independent and objective
assessment of management control systems, including policies and
procedures, regulations and rules and processes for financial management. - Provides support and mentorship to all CURAD incubates on financial
matters bookkeeping and management. - Arranges for and manages yearly book keeping and audits of all
organization funds; - Sets up and manages appropriate systems for monitoring and
collecting membership fees, user fees, yearly subscriptions, commission,
grants, loans and all funds received by the organization; - Develops and maintains appropriate personnel policies and
procedures, ensuring that CURAD personnel and human resources development
practices and procedures are in place and up to date; - Be responsible and fully accountable for the proper management of
finances to achieve the goals and outputs of the incubator. - Take initiative in planning and implementation of CURAD’s revenue
generating activities with the support of the Managing Director. - Provide administrative support for (a) Recruitment and employment of
consultants (b) Procurement of goods (c) Operation and management of funds
in the Credit Accounts, Special Accounts and Project Accounts, furnishing
period reports covering procurement of needed project inputs and use of
budgeted resources/funds. - Ensure timely release of funds for each component, especially where
advances to certain components are concerned and be responsible for
collecting relevant expense documents prior to release of further funds in
this regard. - Sets up and maintains unit budgets and cost centre accounting
procedures; - Helps to sets up and maintains a financial monitoring and evaluation
and management information function that provides monthly statements to
managers to support their ability to monitor and control their financial
activities and their overall performance against work plans, targets and
budgets; - Carries out the HR function at CURAD and helps to sets up, maintains
and monitors a system of procurement for all articles and items needed
from outside vendors; - Sets up and maintains separate accounts and systems to support
organization fundraising activities; - Secretary to the Board Audit and Finance committee
- Provides management oversight and ongoing technical guidance and
feedback to staff and ensures CURAD meets its statutory requirements such
as NSSF, PAYE and any other that may come up as and when applicable. - Carries out such other functions as might be required by the
Managing Director to support smooth running and implementation of CURAD
activities.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant must hold a B.com and/or ACCA, a Master of Business
Administration is added advantage - Four to seven years of experience as an organizational accountant,
project accountant or two to three years of audit experience. - Handling entrepreneurship development and/or Business planning and
development consulting experience. - Experience with SMEs
- Excellent accounting skills using software like QuickBooks,
Sage-pastel, palladium. - Entrepreneurial skills, revenue generation and project management.
- MS Office; especially spread sheets
- Excellent budgeting and planning skills.
- Good written and oral communication skills in English.
- Entrepreneurial skills.
How to Apply:
All suitably
qualified and interested candidates should send their applications addressed to
the Executive Director of the CURAD Board accompanied with copies of academic
transcripts and certificates via postal to: P.O. BOX 1509, Kampala Uganda or
email to [email protected] and copy to [email protected].
qualified and interested candidates should send their applications addressed to
the Executive Director of the CURAD Board accompanied with copies of academic
transcripts and certificates via postal to: P.O. BOX 1509, Kampala Uganda or
email to [email protected] and copy to [email protected].
Deadline: Friday, 15th June 2018 by 4.00pm East African
standard time.
standard time.
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