Job Title: Accountant
Organisation: Reapers Cooperative Savings & Credit Society
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About Organisation:
Reapers is a Christian Cooperative Society (SACCO) operating at Makerere Full Gospel Church, extending its territories through numerous Full Gospel Churches in Uganda. Reapers’ major objective is to inculcate a culture of saving towards financial freedom for each of its members.
Job Summary: The job role is responsible for planning, designing, and coordinating the implementation of a sound SACCO accounting, financial management & internal control system.
This role largely entails financial oversight and analysis, whose components include accounts-level monitoring, financial forecasting, financial contingency planning, and financial reporting.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide strong oversight in risk, governance, conformance, and adherence to internal controls.
- Supervise and coordinate the preparation of various financial reports (such as income statements, balance sheets, and statements of cash flows), management accounts, and statutory accounts in accordance with ISA, IESBA, GAAP, and IFRS codes.
- Coordinate the preparation and adherence to annual budgets and rolling business plans.
- Identifying any available investment alternatives while safeguarding the SACCO against currency risk exposure.
- Ensure a healthy loan book and growth of member savings portfolio
- Ensure monthly budget monitoring, preparation of monthly reconciliation, and budget variance analysis reports.
- Ensure tax compliance, including filing and payment of the respective tax heads and other statutory obligations (VAT, WHT, NSSF, PAYE, Corporate tax), and manage all correspondences with the tax regulator.
- Carry out treasury management activities, including managing cash flows, banking arrangements, payment disbursements, and providing cash flow reports to management.
- In time, supervise the accurate preparation and disbursement of the SACCO’s payroll with the relevant authorities.
- Verify all expenditure and procurement requisitions/payments.
- Participate in project proposal design, writing, reviewing budgets, and tracking respective projects’ budget implementation.
- Ensure timely, accurate data feeds and files in the organization’s accounting software, data safety, and risk management.
- Ensure timely completion of internal and statutory audits and coordinate the implementation of audit review recommendations
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Bachelors/BSc. Commerce, Business Administration (majoring in accounting), or Accounting & Finance.
- CPA or ACCA Qualified
- Experience
- Not less than 3 years of work experience.
How to Apply:
Interested persons are encouraged to send their applications and resume by hand or post, delivered and received not later than 17th September 2025 at 17:00 hrs East Africa Standard Time) to: The Human Resource Reapers Cooperative Society Ltd, Plot 49-55, Makerere Hill Road, P.O. Box 2560 Kampala Or by email to [email protected] with the subject line RCS/HR25/ACC Application no later than 17th September 2025 at 23:59 hrs East Africa Standard Time.
Deadline: 17th September 2025
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Level of Education: Bachelor Degree
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 36