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Title: Finance
Intern (Fresh Graduate Jobs)
Organisation: War
Child Holland (WCH)
Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda
Reports to: Country
Accountant
About US:
War Child Holland
(WCH) is an International non-profit organization that has been working in
Uganda since 2004, mainly in the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) affected areas.
As the situation in Uganda has stabilized, WCH has closed its programs related
to the LRA conflict and started a refugee response program in early 2016 in the
West Nile region, offering psychosocial support to children, young people and
families in the refugee and host communities. In addition to psychosocial
support, the country office is in the process of establishing education
projects with partners.
Job Summary: The Finance Intern will support in the
quality operations of War Child Holland programme activities. The position will
support in all financial transactions and administration for the Kampala
Office.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Financial Accounting, Management and Reporting
- Perform petty cash projects forecast and money request preparation
in close coordination with line manager. - Submit monthly cash flow needs timely
- Make proper, accurate and timely cash/bank reconciliations;
- Ensure timely and accurate data entries in cashbook, bankbook and
UNIT4 on a daily basis and ensure that all financial data is properly
entered and closely monitor. - Make correct account codes and fund codes entries for each
transaction as per WCH’s Global Finance Manual and Uganda Finance SOP; - Ensure petty cash thresholds are well determined and followed before
making any payments to staff or vendors. - Ensure all documents have been sufficiently approved and signed by
authorised persons before making payments; - Ensure disbursement (cheque or cash) request form is adequately
supported by documentation and has been properly approved, check the
mathematical accuracy of the invoice; - Communicate accounts on a weekly bases to the line manager with the
monthly accounting schedule as per Finance Procedures; - Manage the presentation, circulation, filing of vouchers and
archiving of accounting and financial documents in compliance with Finance
procedures; - Review all sub-ledger balances on a weekly basis and collect
outstanding receivables; - Ensure that reminders for all outstanding receivable are sent to
staff responsible and make follow up on the collection; - Ensure that all cash receipts are recorded and booked promptly and
intact; - Ensure that all deductions where applicable are done on a monthly
basis; - Ensure that the sub-office has cash at all times and maintaining
minimum balances and respecting maximum limits in the accounts; - Ensure that all sub-office finance related issues that may arise out
of the monthly financial review are followed up and addressed
conclusively;
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The War Child Holland (WCH) Finance Intern job should hold a
Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, Administration or any
related field from a recognised university. - At least 6 months of finance training from a recognised institution
is an added advantage. - Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to identify critical financial issues with capacity to pay
attention to details. - Proven ability to interpret financial procedures and standards, put
them in practice and influence other in their implementation. - Strong analytical and planning skills.
- Ability to effectively present information and respond appropriately
to questions. - Good, proven experience in excel.
- Experience of a flexible approach to managing and prioritizing a
high workload and multiple tasks in a fast paced environment with tight
deadlines. - Experience of proactively identifying and addressing issues
- Ability to work with a high degree of professionalism.
- MUST have recently completed a University degree and not more than
30 years of ago.
How to Apply:
All suitably
qualified and interested candidates are invited to apply by uploading an
English CV consisting of maximum two pages, and answer our questionnaire
(please note that a cover letter is not requested) through the following
hyperlink:
Deadline: 2nd June 2019
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