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Job Title:  Accountant

Organisation: Makerere University Biomedical Research Center

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

About the Company:

Makerere University Biomedical Research Center is a Ugandan registered Not-for-Profit Organization fully owned by Makerere University established within Makerere University College of Health Sciences.

Job Summary:   The Biomedical Research Centre (MakBRC) is seeking an Accountant

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provides guidance to faculty, administrators, and other staff on proposal development and grant applications for external support opportunities.
• Monitors/ Reviews research proposals before submission to Federal, and other agencies to ensure compliance with University and agency policies and procedures.
• Analysis of fund balances to determine burn rate calculations for progress reporting, carry-over requests, projections, and close-outs of research/grant awards.
• Maintain financial records in compliance with statutory requirements and agreement
• Develop and review policies to enhance performance and strengthen internal control systems
• Support the Head of Finance and Strategic management to provide documents and information to external auditors to carry out annual and specific audit
• Assess any possible risk and develop mitigation measures to support research administration.
• Act as a team member, by organizing meetings and effectively coordinating activities with collaborators.
• Performs and assists with reconciling award activity of expenses to budget in order to avoid cost over-runs per Sponsor and University guidelines.
• Performs and assists with the preparation and review of financial reports or invoices in collaboration with the Finance and Strategic Management.
• Performs and assists with the monitoring of the awards revenues to the project accounts.
• Reviews and ensures the awards Budget and other data elements in the finance system accurately reflect the terms of the award.
• Assists with resolving issues, working with faculty, sponsored program administrators, university administration and internal and external constituents (e.g., Federal/State agency program officers, departmental chairs, etc.) for grant and non-grant (restricted) accounts.
• Assists in coordinating activities and disseminating information to all grant collaborators, including annual offsite and onsite meetings for internal/external faculty and staff.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• A First Class degree from a chartered University in either Commerce, Accounting, Finance or Auditing.
• Evidence of Membership with the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Uganda.
• A minimum of three years of post-qualification experience.
• Extensive Computer knowledge in Microsoft Excel, Vision Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SUN Accounting and Access is required
• Membership with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) is an added advantage
• Knowledge and expertise in grant awarding institutions such as the National Institute of Health (NIH) regulations, policies, procedures, and laws are added advantages.
• The candidate should demonstrate an understanding of grant proposals and budgetary development, which is an added advantage.

How to Apply:

All qualified and interested candidates should address their application to the Human Resource office in PDF format and send them to makbrc.chs@mak.ac.ug

Deadline: 12th August 2024 by 4:00pm

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