Job Title: Accountant
Organization: Finnish
Refugee Council (FRC)
Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda
Reports to: Human
Resource & Finance Manager
About US:
Finnish Refugee
Council (FRC) is an INGO promoting adult education and community development
among refugees since 1997 as an operational partner to UNHCR and OPM.
Job Summary: The Accountant will provide professional
technical finance and accounting services, to keep a clean accounting system
and procedures, and ensure timely reporting.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Payment
preparations (30%)
- Oversee all financial transactions to ensure conformity with
approved accounting and budgetary control systems, procedures and
regulations. - Prepare and maintain staff payroll; posting of salary, NSSF and PAYE
payments into electronic system, and preparation of salary slips to staff.
- Ensure all statutory filings and payments are prepared and remitted
on a timely basis. - Support the Program Manager to check advance requests from staff for
project work.
Accounting and
Financial Reporting (60%)
- Follow up and receive accountability of advances from project staff.
- Prepare monthly project cash accounts and book keeping, and bank
reconciliations by 10th of every month, inclusive of monthly and annual
income and expenditure statements for both HQ and donors. - Assure that all finance related documents are stored appropriately
in the FRC electronic filing system. - Review the monthly audit trail and reports to ensure accuracy.
- Support HQ in the internal and external audit of accounts.
Other (10%)
- Lead as focal point on all related issues with Statutory Regulators.
- Assist in controlling the approved budgets, and ensure that
expenditures comply with grant/donor agreements. - Assist in preparation of project proposal’s budgets.
- Carry out field verification visits for the different projects when
relevant. - Undertake any other duties as may be assigned by the supervisor.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate for the Finnish Refugee Council (FRC) Accountant
job must hold a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business
Administration, Commerce and Other degrees can be considered, if
accompanied with full professional accounting qualification such as ACCA
and CPA. - Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Management an advantage.
- Three years of relevant experience in a finance role.
- Flexible with good communication, feedback, interpersonal and
assertive.
How to Apply:
All candidates
should send their Email applications to [email protected]
Please include in
your application letter:
- Gross salary request,
- Maximum 4-page long CV
- Contact details (email and telephone) of
3 professional reference persons.
Deadline: 31st July 2019
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