Earn 63m as Senior Associate, Finance at Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

Job Title: Senior Associate, Finance

Organisation: Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

Salary: UGX 63,781,560

About Organisation:

Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is a Swiss-based foundation that was launched in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition. Working with both governments and businesses, we aim to transform food systems so that they deliver more nutritious food for all people. In particular, we aim to make healthier food choices more desirable, more available, and more affordable. GAIN’s mission is to advance nutrition outcomes by improving consumption of nutritious and safe food for all people, especially those most vulnerable to malnutrition.

Job Summary: GAIN is seeking to recruit a Senior Associate, Finance to provide day-to-day coordination of the Country Office finance function, ensuring accurate financial processing, strong budget control, timely donor reporting, and compliance with organisational policies, donor requirements, and statutory regulations. Reporting to the Country Director with a functional and supervisory working relationship with the global finance team, the role serves as the primary finance focal point for the Country Office. The Senior Associate, Finance works closely with programme teams, Project Managers, and the global finance team to ensure effective financial planning, monitoring, and reporting to support programme delivery. The role also acts as focal point for coordination of HR administration and legal/statutory compliance matters, working in close liaison with global HR team to ensure appropriate systems and processes are followed.

This role will be offered on a one (1) year fixed term contract, subject to availability of funding and will be based in Kampala, Uganda. This advert closes on 22nd August 2026 . GAIN encourages early applications and reserves the right to close the advert ahead of the advertised deadline if we receive a high volume of interest.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Liaise with the global finance team on all financial management, reporting, compliance, and control matters.
• Process payments and ensure all supporting documentation is complete, accurate, and compliant with organisational policies and donor requirements.
• Maintain accurate financial records, including ledgers, supporting documentation, reconciliations, and filing systems in line with audit standards.
• Process payroll and statutory payments in coordination with the global finance team and HR, ensuring compliance with local legislation and organisational procedures.
• Liaise with the global Legal Team and local counsel on legal and statutory compliance matters.
• Ensure the Country Office meets statutory requirements, including annual filings, registrations, and regulatory submissions.
• Act as Country Office focal point for HR administration, liaising with the global HR on onboarding, staff exits, and personnel administration processes.
• Support payroll preparation in coordination with global HR and Finance teams.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The ideal candidate should be technically strong to manage the day-to-day finance function independently, while also being procedurally and operationally aware to provide finance business partnering support to programme teams.
• The role requires someone who can move comfortably between detailed transactional work—such as payment processing, reconciliations and payroll and higher-level responsibilities such as budget analysis, forecasting, donor reporting, audit coordination, financial risk management and proposal budgeting.
• Most importantly, the candidate should demonstrate integrity, accuracy, ownership, strong coordination skills, and the confidence to provide constructive financial advice and challenge where necessary, while recognising and respecting the organisation’s Delegation of Authority and global finance structures.
• You should be a finance professional holding accounting qualifications such as CPA, ACCA, CIMA. Experience within non-profit sector or other donor-funded environment preferred.

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified and Interested applicants should apply online at the link below.

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Deadline: 22nd August 2026

NB: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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Level of Education: bachelor degree

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60