Job Title: Accountant
Organisation: Steel and Tube Industries Ltd (STIL)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About the Company:
Steel and Tube Industries Ltd is one of the largest steel manufacturers and suppliers of quality steel products in East Africa. Our Products include: Roof Products, Hollow Sections & Open Profiles, Smart Tanks, STIL Bars, Wire Products, etc.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Collate all accounting data ready for posting.
- Daily posting of purchase, bills payable, petty cash payments and bankings.
- Follow standard accounting procedures and company guidelines at all times and in all cases.
- Review source documents for accuracy, completeness, correctness and consistency.
- Do weekly reconciliations of all bank accounts provided.
- Make monthly bank reconciliation statements.
Secondary Responsibilities
- Reconcile creditors’ accounts and expense accounts and submit them to finance manager.
- Compute taxes owed and prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting and other tax requirements.
- Maintain tables of accounts codes and assign entries to proper accounts.
- Assist in developing, maintaining, and analyzing budgets, preparing periodic reports that compare budgeted costs to actual costs.
- Prepare forms and manuals for accounting and bookkeeping subordinates, and direct their work activities.
- Survey operations to ascertain accounting needs and to recommend, develop, and maintain solutions to business and financial problems.
- Advise the finance manager about issues such as resource utilization, tax strategies, and the assumptions underlying budget forecasts.
- Assist in internal and external auditing services for businesses and individuals.
- Advise staff in areas such as design of accounting and data processing systems, and long-range tax and company plans.
- Investigate complex financial transactions and prepare reports summarizing the findings.
- Appraise, evaluate, and inventory real property and equipment, recording information such as the property’s description, value, and location.
- To understand, Implement and maintain all ISO systems in the company.
- Perform any other duties as they may be assigned
Health, Safety and Environmental responsibilities and Ethics:
- Ensure cleanliness in and around the workplace.
- Enforce PPE usage by employees in the plant at all times.
- Guidance and on-the job training of workers especially new ones in good environmental maintenance and safer working procedures in order to reduce occupational accidents.
- Assist management to identify resources required to improve EHS in the company.
- Ensure good housekeeping in the plant i.e., immediate cleaning of coolants and oil spillages, emptying of waste bins, shift of scrap from respective workplace.
- Ensure proper use of waste bins and their availability at the designated respective locations in the plant
- Assist in taking corrective actions for any EHS deficiencies identified during audits or day to day observations
- Help casualties get immediate medical attention and also work closely with HR and systems coordinator during accidents/incident investigations
- Facilitate security of company staff and property.
- Promote health and safety at the workplace.
- Encourage teamwork for the purpose of a smooth and prosperous management
- Help create a culture and atmosphere of hard work and high personal integrity.
- Safeguard the company’s systems and Terms and Conditions of employment.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Qualifications: Degree in Accounts, ACCA, CPA or Masters
- Experience: 6 years plus
How to Apply:
Interested and qualified candidates should submit their applications accompanied with a detailed Curriculum Vitae (CV), photocopies of academic documents and certificates as one PDF folder via Email to: [email protected]
Deadline: 10th June 2025.
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