Job Title: Financial Controller
Organisation: Hima Cement
Duty Station: Kasese, Uganda
Vacancy Code: FAX01
About Organisation:
Hima Cement Limited is a cement manufacturer in Uganda. It is a subsidiary of the Sarrai Group, a diversified manufacturing conglomerate headquartered in Uganda with subsidiaries in Uganda, Kenya and Malawi.
Job Summary: Ensuring payables, receivables, payments of staff expense and claims, develop account reconciliations, journal entries, design periodical, monthly, and quarterly inter-company reports and check that general ledger reconciliations are done and reviewed.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Payables- Enforcing the payments policy, processing supplier invoices, generating payments and managing relationships with suppliers.
- Payments Forecasts – compiling weekly and monthly payments forecast
- Controls- Support to the corporate financial accountant in ensuring controls around the payment process are adequate and are correctly applied in practice.
- Support to the Payables controller in administering tax payments and URA refunds, replenishing the URA gross payment account, administration of VAT, excise, and withholding tax ensuring compliance thereon.
- Ensure payments of staff expense claims and processing accountability reports Develop account reconciliations, journal entries, data compilation and analyses ensuring accuracy and timely delivery of accounts reports including actual, reforecast, intercompany, notes etc. Support the period end process to ensure correct and timely posting of transactions through review of balance sheet (reconciliations/ inventories, movement, etc) ensuring appropriate action is taken where required.
- Design periodical, monthly, and quarterly intercompany reports and check that general ledger reconciliations are done and reviewed.
- Coordinate with various departments and perform variation analyses for all technical accounting problems to ensure compliance.
- Coordinate the process of external and internal audits by providing the necessary support to deliver the audit in time. Perform troubleshoot on all financial reports, complete audits, identify trends to determine improvement plans.
- Perform accounting controls by executing policies and manage assigned balance sheet accounts, perform account reconciliations and make necessary corrections.
- Analyse all proposed and existing legislation to avoid legal challenges in all financial reports
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Commerce, Business Administration with specialty in Accounting,
- Professional certification (ACCA, CPA) is an added advantage
- Knowledge and proficiency in spreadsheets and ERP applications (SAP, tally, Oracle financials, JD Edwards)
- Tax knowledge of indirect, direct and international taxes
- 3 years accounts payable and general accounting experience gained in a reputable organization
- Experience in managing industrial plant operations
- Should have the ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and set priorities.
- Should be result oriented, self-driven with a high sense of quality and ability to meet tight deadlines.
Profile & Personal Qualities
- Team work and flexibility
- Organizing and prioritizing
- Innovation and passion for excellence
- Problem solving and communication skills.
- Attention to detail and accuracy.
- Confidentiality and judgement.
- Stress management skills.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Time management and Conflict management
- Leadership skills
- Willingness to work wherever assigned within our different sites.
How to Apply:
Hima cement will offer a competitive remuneration package to the successful candidate. Candidates that know that they meet the above criteria and have what it takes to excel in the above position, should send their CVs, which should include details of email address (if any), present position, current remuneration,
Certificate/testimonials and address of three (3) Referees plus telephone contact to the stipulated email address not later than 19th December, 2025. (Email your application and CV to [email protected] and let’s save the environment).
Deadline: 19th December 2025
Key Notes:
- Hima Cement Limited is a diverse, inclusive and equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate and do not charge any fee at any stage of the recruitment.
- Make sure that your application letter, CV and certificates are attached as one document
- Indicate the Vacancy Code as the subject for your email
- Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted
- Any form of canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification.
The Human Resource Manager – Kasese Plant Hima Cement Ltd,
P.O Box 37 Kasese
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Level of Education: bachelor degree
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 36