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Job Title:   School Finance Specialist, Operations

Organisation: Promoting Equality in African Schools (PEAS)

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

Reports to: Country Finance Manager

 

About US:

Promoting Equality in African Schools (PEAS) is an international education not-for-profit organisation with the mission to ‘expand access to sustainably delivered, quality secondary education across Africa.’ Since 2008, PEAS has built and operated high quality low-cost not-for-profit secondary schools in close partnership with government in communities where there is urgent unmet demand for secondary education. We currently run 28 secondary schools in Uganda and 4 in Zambia serving over 15,000 students. PEAS operations and work are founded on four strategic pillars i.e., Access, Quality, Sustainability and System Strengthening.

 

Job Summary:  The School Finance Specialist (SFS) role exists to ensure sound and effective finance and accounting operations across the PEAS School Network. The SFS is therefore expected to streamline and rationalise PEAS Uganda schools’ financial operations to achieve full capacity return on investment that enhances PEAS aspirations for a successful, exemplar and sustainable actor in the education sector in Uganda. The role holder works closely with the various departmental heads within the organisation to define and implement optimal operational models necessary for the achievement of the highest impact for Access, Quality, Sustainability and System Strengthening in all PEAS schools.





Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

Essential

  • The applicant must hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting or Commerce
  • Five years of experience in a financial management role at either a senior or middle level management level
  • Experience leading business planning and analysis in a large school network or in an entity with similar operations
  • Experience developing strategies and effectively managing change processes
  • Numerate and demonstrable experience of using Microsoft Office applications especially MS Excel and MS PowerPoint
  • Ambitious and desires a stretch role that provides an opportunity to get out of their ordinary finance into modelling, analytics, forecasting and developing strategies
  • Working well with senior management teams and able to influence, persuade and articulate well with evidence approaches that deliver specific goals
  • Basic experience in developing policy framework and
  • Tax planning and management experience

 

Desired

  • A visionary and values aligned individual who is excited about transformation and able to influence others
  • Qualified Accountant with either CPA or ACCA.

 

Skills & Personal Attributes:

  • A good collaborator, team player and listener
  • Self-driven and can work largely with limited or no supervision setting own goal plans to achieve specific assignment

 

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified candidates should apply at the link below.

 

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Deadline: 26th November 2021 by 6 PM EAT.

 

Note:

  • PEAS is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate in its recruitment practices and, actively seeks a diverse applicant tool to build the strongest possible workforce.
  • PEAS is a child sensitive environment.
  • We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse. Successful candidates will therefore be required to sign up to our child protection and adult safeguarding policies upon induction.

 

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