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: [email protected]
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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