Job Title: Accounting Associate
Organisation: Compassion International
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About Organisation:
Compassion International is an American child sponsorship and Christian humanitarian aid organization headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, that aims to positively influence the long-term development of children globally who live in poverty.
Job Summary: This seasoned paraprofessional assists in completing broad accounting support tasks such as bank reconciliations, reimbursements, periodic close out activities, disbursements, financial statement preparation, accounts payable, global roll ups, and international partner billings. The incumbent may perform accounting support work for GMC or remote offices including reconciling and recording periodic entries, and calculating and processing support & gifts. Based on the actual work group assigned, the incumbent in this position may perform some or all of the essential functions listed, as well as other related duties. This seasoned accounting support position may provide coaching and technical advice to other assistant and offices.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Maintains a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Is a consistent witness for Jesus Christ, maintains a courteous, Christ-like attitude in dealing with people within and outside of Compassion, and faithfully upholds Compassion’s ministry in prayer.
- Acts as an advocate to raise the awareness of the needs of children. Understands Christ’s mandate to protect children. Commits to and prioritizes child protection considerations in all decision-making, tasks and activities across the ministry. Abides by all behavioral expectations in Compassion’s Statement of Commitment to Child Protection and Code of Conduct. Reports any concerns of abuse, neglect or exploitation of children through Compassion’s internal reporting process and appropriately supports responses to incidents if they occur.
- Provides skilled support to accounting team, organizing and scanning backups, entering transactions, reconciling accounts, completing journal entries, and maintaining documentation. May occasionally provide general administrative support to assigned team.
- Researches and resolves issues such as past due credit card balances, outstanding payments, and accounts payables discrepancies. Responds directly to internal clients such as employees and leadership regarding finance and accounting issues.
- Performs skilled bookkeeping duties such as calculating monthly office support, preparing various forms and folders for approval, and forwarding documents such as Capital Requisition Forms and Capital Asset Transaction Forms for inclusion in the Fixed Asset system. Helps ensure that significant contracts are properly executed for building leases and in other obligations.
- As the subject matter expert, administers and provides training content for expense management system.
- Performs disbursement and/or reconciliation of petty cash, accounts payable, employee credit cars, reimbursements, and similar issues, ensuring that proper documentation is received and is in compliance with policy.
- Provides skilled accounting services to various finance and accounting teams performing duties such as overseeing foreign exchange brokering, entering and tracking vouchers, overseeing wire transfers, maintaining daily cash spreadsheet, Exchange Rate Report spreadsheet, and expense report processing.
- Supports project accounting and financial decisions making related to projects, ensuring consistency with budgeted expenditures and allocations throughout the project life cycle. She or he reviews forecast-to-complete and other project progress projections for management reporting and consults with project leadership regarding regular project cost reports such as variance and cash flow.
- Provides coaching and technical advice to other staff.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Faith
- Has a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
- Culture
- Accountable for supporting, upholding, and engaging in Compassion’s core “Cultural Behaviors” in all internal and external communication and relationships.
Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in accounting, finance or a related field.
- Experience
- Five years relevant experience working in this or a related field.
- Other
- Strong IT skills
- Good understanding of the Compassion church partners operations
Licenses and Certifications
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
- *Equivalent education, training and/or certification may be substituted for experience and education shown above
- Working Environment
- Office – Standard Office Environment
- Physical Demands
- Sitting, standing, and/or walking for up to 8 hours per day
- Travel Requirements
- May be required to travel up to 30% of normal schedule
How to Apply:
Please submit your CV, cover letter, National ID and academic documents at the link below
Deadline: 14th October 2025
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Level of Education: Bachelor Degree
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 60