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Job Title:    Finance and Administration Manager

Organization:
Sole Hope

Duty Station:
Jinja, Uganda

About US:

Sole Hope’s mission
is to offer hope, healthier lives, and freedom from foot-related diseases
through education, jobs, and medical relief. Our programs include school and
village clinics, a Hope center and clinic, a shoe production workshop,
education programs and income generating activities.

Job Summary:  This is an exceptional opportunity for a high
level professional individual to manage our financial systems, donor funding
and company administrative duties for Sole Hope, Uganda. The Finance and
Administration Manager is a senior management position reporting direct to the
Country Director. The role will based at our office in Buwenda-Jinja. .

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

·       Oversee company administration and compliance
within statutory requirements within Sole Hope’s finance and administration
company policy and procedures.

·       Monitor and produce financial reporting on
institutional grant funding.

·       Provide regular reports detailing donor and
fundraising financial engagement.

·       Uphold complete documentation, stewardship
and accountability of financial transactions.

·       Ensure budgets and forecasts are prepared and
submitted in line with Sole Hope’s weekly senior management meeting, monthly
Executive meetings, and quarterly Board meetings.

·       Provide accurate and timely financial
information is issued to relevant internal departments for reporting purposes
to Sole Hope’s donors and key stakeholders.

·       Maintain a robust budgeting, financial
management and tracking system is in place for accountability of purchase
orders, approvals incomes and expenditures.

·       Oversee administrative duties including
logistics, procurement and office administration.

·       Conduct best working practices and
implementation of company administration in line with state internal and
external taxation reporting, and the import and export procedures on the
international movement of goods.

·       Support, mentor and supervise staff to carry
out day-to-day finance and administrative functions to ensure compliance with
financial controls and operational systems.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

·       The ideal candidate must hold a Degree in
Business Administration, Finance, Accounting or another relevant field and a
professional certification such as CPA or ACCA.

·       At least eight years of experience in
increasing roles of responsibility and oversight of finance and administrative
functions with donor funded organisations especially USAID and EU funded
projects.

·       At least five years’ experience in a
management position

·       Practical working knowledge of QuickBooks
accounting system and conversance with MS Office applications including Word, Excel,
Power Point, and Outlook

·       Experience working within an NGO

·       Excellent communication and people skills

How to Apply:

All Ugandan
nationals who meet the criteria are encouraged to apply.

Please send your
application and CV by email to: hr@solehope.org

Only shortlisted
applicants will be contacted for interviews. Lobbying for favours will lead to
automatic disqualification of the candidate

Deadline: Friday 17th July 2020 at 5:00 pm

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