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Job Title:   International Management Accountant (East Africa Region)

Organisation: WaterAid

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

Salary: UGX 169,389,199 – 224,440,688 /= with benefits

About US:

WaterAid is an international non-governmental organisation, focused on water, sanitation and hygiene. WaterAid’s vision is of a world where everyone has access to safe water and sanitation. WaterAid transforms lives by improving access to safe water, hygiene and sanitation in the world’s poorest communities.

Job Summary:  Join WaterAid as an International Management Accountant to change normal for millions of people so they can unlock their potential, break free from poverty and change their lives for good. The WaterAid Management Accounting team provides country programmes and the regions with professional and technical finance leadership for WaterAid UK’s international work. The International Management Accountants act as a trusted business partner to each region they support. Being involved in strategic conversations and enabling decision making through insights and data analysis.

As an IMA you will support the regions, country programme leadership, and International Programmes Directorate, to deliver effective financial plans and ensure best practice in monitoring and evaluating performance is in place. You will act as a trusted Business Partner of your stakeholders, providing analysis, robust challenge and strategic advice, to support the delivery of WaterAid’s mission. This will include helping to build the financial management capacity of stakeholders through developing and championing self service reporting and insights that support optimal and cohesive decision making on all levels of International Programmes Directorate: country, regional and director.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work with Country Senior  Management  Team  to  develop  business  plans  for  scale up/innovation/new activities for the country programme.
• Support the country programme to implement appropriate financial processes and procedures for sourcing and managing complex restricted funds
• Review and analyse country programme plan and budgets, requesting clarification where required, to provide support and advice to Country Senior Management Teams, Heads of Region and the Head of Management Accounting.
• Consolidate information from country programmes to produce financial  analysis  and narrative information for regional management accounts on a monthly basis.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships across the global finance function to ensure an integrated approach, mutual learning and effective use of resources.
• Collaborate with wider organisation and actively build relationships with others, including, programmes support functions, fundraising teams and other finance colleagues as well as a range of direct senior stakeholders

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Degree level education
• Professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA)
• Experience in the use of Sun, or a similar multi-dimensional accounting system.
• Excellent Microsoft Excel skills
• Working knowledge of Business Intelligence tools
• Knowledge and experience of donor fund management
• Experience of financial planning, budgeting and forecasting
• Ability to analyse financial data and provide narrative for range of audiences
• Experience of developing financial policies, processes and systems
• Management accounting expertise, experience and knowledge
• Finance Business Partnering experience of being a trusted partner to stakeholders

Please apply by submitting your CV and a cover letter into one document in either Word Document or PDF format. Applications without a cover letter will not be considered. Please indicate your location and the right to work eligibility in your Cover letter.

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified and interested candidates are encouraged to apply online at the link below.

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Deadline: 24th May 2024

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