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Job Title:  Senior Accountant

Organisation: Law Development Centre (LDC)

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

Reports to: Manager Finance

About the Company:

Law Development Centre (LDC) will provide legal education to lawyers and non-lawyers, undertake research in topical legal issues, contribute to legal reforms, produce legal publications, teaching materials and law reports, and also provide community legal services.

Job Summary:   The Law Development Centre (LDC) invites applications from suitably qualified candidates (Ugandans) to fill the position of Senior Accountant, tenable at LDC Kampala campus. The Senior Accountant provide routine financial management and accounting support relating to budget execution, preparing financial statements, and tracking accountabilities.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• To verify completeness of payment requisitions, justification, and documentation of financial transactions.
• To supervise periodic reconciliations of ledgers and cash books to account statements; non-tax revenue to URA provisional returns, and provide advice on appropriate action.
• To produce routine financial management information and draft periodic financial statements and reports for management use.
• To prepare draft periodic statements and reports for the compilation of final accounts.
• To coordinate preparation of draft responses to audit activities or queries and oversight issues.
• To prepare requests for funding.
• To perform any other duties as may be assigned by the Manager Finance.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s (Hon) degree in Accounting or Finance.
• Possession of relevant professional qualification such as ACCA, ACA, or CPA, ICSA is a must.
• Member of ICPAU.
• Master’s Degree in Finance or Accounting is an added advantage.
• At least three (3) years’ work experience as Accountant in Government or an equivalent level of accounting work experience from a reputable private organisation.

Key Competencies:

• He/she should be a strategic financial manager.
• Possesses strong relationship management skills.
• Should be creative and innovative.
• Ability to embrace change management.
• He/she should be a person of high integrity.
• Results-oriented.
• Effective communication and interpersonal relations skills.
• He/she should be a team player.

How to Apply:

Applications clearly indicating the position applied for should be addressed to The Secretary/Head, Human Resource & Administration, Law Development Centre, P.O. Box 7117 Kampala and should be: submitted by email addressed to hr@ldc.ac.ug OR;

Hand-delivered to the LDC Reception at either Kampala Campus, Mbarara Campus, or Lira Campus.

NOTE: Applicants should attach an up-to-date Curriculum Vitae, certified copies of academic documents, and any other relevant documents that will support their application. For applications by email, applicants should submit scanned copies of the application and supporting documents in Portable Document Format (PDF) as a single file.

Deadline: 13th September 2024 by 5:00pm

NOTE: Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.

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