SNV World Jobs – Deputy Country Controller

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Organization: SNV World
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About SNV:
SNV is a not-for-profit international development
organisation. Founded in the Netherlands nearly 50 years ago, we have built a
long-term, local presence in 38 of the poorest countries in Asia, Africa and
Latin America. Our global team of local and international advisors work with
local partners to equip communities, businesses and organisations with the
tools, knowledge and connections they need to increase their incomes and gain
access to basic services – empowering them to break the cycle of poverty and
guide their own development. By sharing our specialist expertise in
Agriculture, Renewable Energy, and Water, Sanitation & Hygiene, we
contribute to solving some of the leading problems facing the world today –
helping to find local solutions to global challenges and sowing the seeds of
lasting change. In the renewable energy sector, SNV aims to accelerate access
to energy in mostly rural, off-grid areas with solutions varying from biogas
and improved cooking stoves to solar PV for lighting.
Job
Summary:  The
Deputy Country Controller will provide support to the Country Controller and
other members of the management team in the Financial Management and
Administration of the Uganda Country Program.
Key Duties and
Responsibilities:
1. Financial Management, Planning & Control:
  • Ensuring compliance with
    internal and external procedures and guidelines concerning financial
    administration of projects
  • Ensuring compliance with
    SNV corporate and generally accepted accounting policies and procedures
  • Contributing to ongoing
    efficiency improvement in projects.
  • Support budget holders in
    ensuring compliance to budget procedures and donor / corporate regulations
  • Ensuring control, monitoring
    and execution of all financial related activities in country, including
    logistics, purchasing, and ICT within the country
2. Financial Accounting & Administration:
  • Monitor, analyse and
    report on fund depletion on a regular basis
  • Manage liquidity within
    the country and liaisons with SNV and donors regarding fund availability
  • Ensure appropriate
    accounting at the country level
  • Ensure that the
    organisation is compliant on its tax and legal requirements.
  • Manage fixed assets,
    logistics, purchasing, and other finance-related activities
  • Manage and periodically
    review insurance policies
3. Resource Mobilization:
  • Coordinate risk
    assessments and contracts, formulate budgets, establish fees and manage
    the flow of funds for all business development initiatives
  • Support the Review
    process of donor contracts before signing
  • Provide reliable revenue
    forecasting in SNV systems
  • Support project
    administrators with contract management.
4. Financial Reporting:
  • Prepare appropriate
    financial reports to internal/external stakeholders on funds depletion
  • Provide accurate and
    timely financial data to donors according to contract conditions
  • Ensure proper financial
    and administrative closing of projects in line with the guidelines
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience:
  • The
    applicant should hold a Masters degree in
    accounting, financial management or related fields;
  • Professional accounting
    qualifications and membership to ICPAU /ACCA;
  • Additional qualifications
    in information systems especially use of ERP.
  • At least five years
    relevant work experience in a similar position;
  • Fluency in written and
    spoken English;
  • Computer literacy skills
    i.e. proficient with MS Word, Excel and financial applications.
  • A self-motivated achiever
    with excellent leadership, teamwork, coaching, communication, analytical
    and organisational skills. .
  • Strong work ethics, high
    level of confidentiality and Integrity
NB:  This position is open to
Ugandan Nationals only.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified candidates should apply in
writing and include an updated Curriculum Vita with a reliable telephone number
and e-mail address and names and contacts of a minimum of 3 referees.
Applications should be addressed to: SNV Netherlands Development Organisation,
Kampala, Uganda and sent via email to pomach@snvworld.org For more information,
please visit our website at www.snvworld.org. Evidence of third-party mediation
will lead to automatic disqualification.
Deadline: 8th
November, 2013

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