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Job Title:   Finance Associate 

Organisation: Living Goods

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

Reports to: Senior Accountant – Operations

About US:

Living Goods aims to save lives at scale by supporting digitally empowered community health workers. We work with governments and partners to leverage smart mobile technology, rigorously strengthen performance, and relentlessly innovate to cost-effectively deliver high-quality, impactful health services.

Job Summary:  The Finance Associate will be responsible for processing all submitted financial requests; making judgements in accordance to set policies & procedures: ensuring accurate capture of information as per set dimensions.  In charge of financial document filing & storage and managing company Petty Cash. Handling both HQ & Branch Petty Cash replenishment reports and reconciliations; and attending to Petty Cash surprise counts.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Payment Processing:

• Work on all submitted requisitions ensuring correct dimensional posting, and sufficient support documents attached.

Treasury Management:

• Manage HQ Petty Cash payouts & reconciliations; adhering to set imprest systems.
• Review and reconcile submitted Branch Petty Cash Reports including monthly cash counts.
• Attend to HQ surprise cash counts.

Audit & Compliance:

• Source audit sampled documents from the files.
• Ensure applicable tax deductions and approved policy rates used on processed requisitions.

Documentation Management:

• Prepare transactional vouchers, ensuring proper coding & filing of these plus relevant support documents.
• Maintain proper filing for any other financial documentations received.

Modular Report Extractions:

• Extract & share reports on; payables, petty cash, etc.
• Manage Petty Cash pay-outs and analysis of the branch Petty Cash reports.
• Initial Review of Requisitions and modifications where necessary; advising users where corrections are required.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The applicant must hold a Bachelor’s degree in Finance and Accounting or a related field.
• Professional Qualifications / Membership in professional bodies
• Additional certification (e.g. CPA/ ACCA) is a plus but not a requirement.
• Four to six years of working experience.
• Interpersonal Skills.
• Administrative skills.
• Communication Skills.
• Team leader/player.
• Computer usage – good with spreadsheets (Accounting software).
• Confidentiality & Integral traits.
• Multi-tasker & meeting deadlines.
• Accounting bookkeeping skills.
• Resourceful, Flexible and pays attention to details.
• Bilingual in French is a plus.
• Decision making & Accountability:

How to Apply:

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