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Job Title:  Accountant – GL Tax and AR/AP

Organisation: Hapag-Lloyd

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

 

About Organisation:

The roots of Hapag-Lloyd AG stretch far back into the 19th century, when the founding companies – Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (Hapag) and North German Lloyd – put their first ships to sea carrying general cargo and passengers to New York. From these beginnings, in an exciting history marked by changes and upheavals, grew the leading and globally active container liner shipping company that we are today.

 

Job Summary:

Coordination with the MRU QSC of the monthly and yearly closing for Uganda

Financial & Corporate Audit preparation

Tax filing

Area objectives and KPI’s to secure

Budget and Quarterly Forecasts for OVH

Manage AP and AR

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Oversee the completeness and accuracy of all GL accounts

Responsible for timeous and accurate month end and year closing as per HL guidelines

Responsible for timeous and accurate submission of OVH budgets and forecast including DND, investments, SAP RE, etc.

Coordinate maintenance and improvement of processes together with the MRU QSC

Responsible for achievement of all targets in BA

Responsible for preparation of annual financial statements

Responsible for timely Tax filing

POE for Financial & Corporate Audit queries / requests, ensuring timeous closure of all topics

Implement and monitor processes to avoid the recurrence of audit findings together with introducing preventive processes to reduce and eventually eliminate audit findings

Responsible for the submission of Quarterly reports: Compliance, Risk Management, Tax Risk Assessment, Legal Contingencies

Work with all departments to proactively implement measure to prevent revenue leakage and overcharging on the Operational side ‘

Responsible for Area objectives and KPI’s, escalation if necessary.

Keep abreast of developments in CS, Sales, Ops to inform Management of impact of changes as well as ensure our processes

Ad hoc requests from Management

Drive innovation to create meaningful reporting and to address critical topics

AR follow up from input to reconciliation, collection process

Disputes coordination

Control of bad Debts

AP follow up from input to reconciliation

Payment process

 

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or a related field

CPA – U or ACCA certification is a MUST

Strong accounting and finance experience

Strong knowledge on the Government policies and Tax Regulations

Strong internal audit experience

Proficiency in accounting software and Microsoft Excel.

Excellent understanding of HL business

Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to converse with stakeholders on many levels in the internal and external organization

Success Citeria for this Position

Self-Starter

Confident in ability to address topics with different stakeholders

Work independently

Strong with recommendations and decisions making

Analytical

Solution orientated

Open minded and adaptable

 

How to Apply:

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