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Job Title:    Finance Assistant Officer

Organisation: Quest
Holdings Limited

Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda

Reports to: Head
of Finance

About US:

Quest Holdings
Limited is a registered company with its Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. We
provide professional receivable management solutions for both financial and
commercial markets and focuses on maximizing clients’ cash flow management and
credit control aspects.

We provide end to
end accounts receivable management solutions from billing, reconciliation, 3rd
party collections and skip trace. QHL is under a group of companies that have
been providing these services for the past 9 years with presence in East Africa
through subsidiaries situated in Nairobi, Kampala and Lusaka.

Job Summary:  The Finance Assistant Officer will provide
financial and administrative support to Quest Holdings, based in Uganda. The
staff will be a full time member of the Quest Holdings Limited support team.
The position holder will be responsible for supporting the team in areas such
as financial management and ensuring compliance with Quest internal policies
and procedures.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Management of the company’s imprest system including all receipts
  and payments, reconciling daily petty cash and providing daily cash
  reports.
• Assist in invoicing functions, providing information relevant for
  invoicing purposes, delivery of the respective invoices to various
  customers.
• Assisting in Banking and other bank-related functions such as
  deposits both cash and cheques, carrying out bank reconciliations monthly
  and ensuring that all the non-reconciling factors are brought to the
  attention of management.
• Record keeping; including all updates on the relevant ledger’s e.g.
  debtors, sales and other ledgers.
• Maintenance of the company’s asset register, a company asset file
  were all fixed assists are recorded and consistently updated for proper
  management decision making, ensuring that all company assets are insured
  and clearly branded with agreed company asset codes.
• Tax-related issues; assist in the provision of schedules that are
  relevant for URA tax purposes as and when required by the accountant.
• Generation of weekly financial reports in regard to collections,
  expenditure and financial position of the company and this is expected to
  be ready before close of business of every Friday.
• Advising management on relevant aspects in regard to the company’s
  daily financial aspects that may be of relevance.
• Creditors’ management; ensuring that all creditors’ records are up
  to date and their statements reconciled before any payment requests are
  made.
• Minimizing expenditure and ensuring that the company’s operations
  budget does not exceed the approved budget.
• Performing any other duty that in line with the work of an accounts
  officer as and when required and deemed fit by management.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 

• The applicant must hold a University degree of Business
  Administration supplemented by professional courses in Finance/Accounting
  or any other related field.
• Two to three years of progressively responsible work experience at
  the professional level in finance and office administration.
• Good writing and communication skills with supervisory ability.
• Ability to establish harmonious working relations in an
  international and multicultural environment.
• Good level of spoken and written English.
• Analytical skills and negotiating skills.
• Willingness to travel outside the country.
• Ability to work independently and work collaboratively as part of a
  team in a challenging and highly fluid environment.
• Demonstrated attention to detail, ability to follow procedures, meet
  deadlines and cooperatively with team members are required.
• Basic knowledge in computer applications such as word processing,
  spreadsheets, and powerpoint.
• The high degree of cultural sensitivity.
• Knowledge of the local working language of the duty station is a
  requirement.

How to Apply:

All candidates
should send their updated resumes and application letters to
raguti@questholdings.biz quoting the job title on the subject.

Deadline: Monday 2nd September 2019.

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