Finance Administrator Job Placement - TrackNav (U) Ltd

Job Title:    Finance Administrator

Organization: TrackNav (U) Ltd

Duty Station: Head Office, Kampala Uganda

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Accounting, Administration & Financial Controls

·       Manage the finance and accounting function of the institution ensuring efficient systems, process and controls.-This includes office TRACKNAV LTD super management.

·       Oversee the continuous improvement of accounting Administration and financial processes and the development of the team with the goal to achieve best practices and optimal output.

·       Develop, review and oversee accounting policies and procedures to meet both current and future business models.

·       Manage external audits, review and analyze results and recommend for approval the audited financial statements to the board

·       Ensure funds management is in compliance with all internal policies and relevant regulations and

·       Ensure finance records are kept in an orderly manner.

·       TRACKNAV LTD Payroll management with HR

·       Funders management

·       Cordinate and review bank reconciliations prepared by financial accountants in a timely fashion and maintain proper records for external and internal audit

·       Work closely with the Finance Manager-Operations to ensure that finance and operations controls and policies are complied with in the various satellite branches of TRACKNAV LTD

Cash and risk management

·       Coordinates annual insurance renewal process and ensure appropriate coverage is maintained at all times-Asset/Medical/Credit life/WIBA.

·       Ensure appropriate legal review of contracts and solicit external legal advice as required.

·       Bank Relationship management enquiries & statements.

·       Tax Management/WHT/NHIF/NSSF/PAYE/Installment Tax.

Management reporting

·       Responsible for financial management reporting to the board of directors

·       Present monthly and year-to-date financials with accompanying analysis of results vs budgets

·        Develop regular reporting and analysis, including key metrics reports, and conduct adhoc financial analysis as required

·       Ensure financial management reporting tolls and processes are in place to support the  ongoing and future needs of the business.

Budgeting

·       Lead the annual development and budgeting process.

·       Active participation in TRACKNAV LTD quarterly review process.

Leadership

·       Ensure the team delivers the highest standard of reporting by enhancing teamwork cross TRACKNAV LTD and efficient customer service.

·       Ensure optimal deployment of resources to achieve business goals.

·       Provide coaching, guidance and support, set professional development plans to assist employees to reach their full potential through the performance management process.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

·       A minimum of 2 years’ experience in a similar position preferably in a financial institution.

·       Degree in Human Resource Management, Business Administration or any other relevant field.

·       Ensure that the Company’s financial and Administration function is run properly.

·       Ensures that reports are generated in a timely manner.

·       Ensures that Collections are up-to-date.

·       Ability to handle a diverse workforce.

·       Operates well with minimal supervision.

·       Good judgment and decision-making ability.

·       Team Player

·       Be corrupt/Fraud free and is of good conduct.

·       Has positive attitude towards TRACKNAV LTD mission and believe in provision of financial services in alleviation of poverty.

·       Excellent communication and presentation skills.

·       Detail-oriented and organized.

How to apply:

All interested and qualified candidate submit your application, detailed CV and testimonials to the address below;

The Human Resource Manager;

TrackNav (U) Ltd

Send your application by

Email to: tracknavuganda@gmail.com

Deadline: 28th November 2019

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Finance Officer International NGO Jobs - Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)

Job Title:       Finance Officer

Organisation: Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)

Duty Station:  Uganda

About US:

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian organization with 60 years of experience in helping to create a safer and more dignified life for refugees and internally displaced people. NRC advocates for the rights of displaced populations and offers assistance within the shelter, education, emergency food security, legal assistance, and water, sanitation and hygiene sectors.

Job Summary:  The Finance Officer will on a monthly basis support the Area and Country offices in internal reporting and account analysis. Perform accounts payable accounting function including receiving and matching invoices, account coding, preparation of disbursements and accounts payable related record keeping.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

•        Support the Area Manager in Kyangwali in day to day reconciliations and financial analysis

•        Provides assistance in timely monthly closing and ensuring Area Offices are able to close on agreed upon deadlines

•        Review financial reports and documents from the field offices and insure that they are timely received.

•        Work closely with logistic department to insure that asset register is updated regularly and match physical assets.

•        Prepare a trip report for each assignment and submit to Finance Coordinator and Finance Manager.

•        Provide training and support to finance and non-finance staff regarding generally accepted financial procedures and NRC internal controls.

•        Assist in yearend closing and audit document preparation

•        Participate in and facilitate country finance workshops and training as required;

•        Maintain open communication with Finance, program staff and others for all financial clarifications

•        In collaboration with AM and Field Coordinator development of area master support budget

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

•        The applicant for the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) Finance Officer job placement should hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Commerce, Finance or Accounting. 

•        At least five years of relevant experience.

•        Three (3) years’ progressive experience in financial management, budget monitoring, audit compliance, and risk management.

•        Familiar with3 year of INGO experience is a plus. 

•        CPA2 qualification is added advantage.

•        Knowledge of Aggresso is added advantage.

•        Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.

•        Strict attention to policy and practice detail

•        Very strong financial analysis skills

•        High integrity

•        Good knowledge of financial reporting systems in donor funded work

How to Apply:

All interested and qualified Ugandan candidates who wish to join one of the world’s leading relief organisations, Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) should apply by visiting the web link below.

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Deadline: 27^th November 2019

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Canadian Charity Jobs - Program Partner, MSME (Tourism) - Mastercard Foundation

Job Title:       Program Partner, MSME (Tourism)

Organisation: Mastercard Foundation

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

About US:

Mastercard Foundation is a global foundation based in Toronto, Canada with several offices in Africa. Our programs promote financial inclusion and advance education and learning in Africa, primarily for young people, and in Canada for Indigenous youth. The Foundation was established in 2006 through the generosity of Mastercard when it became a public company. From inception, the Foundation was designed to be a separate entity and independent from Mastercard. Our policies, operations, and funding decisions are made by our President and Board of Directors.

The Foundation believes that youth employment is key to unlocking prosperity, both for youth and their societies. Enabling young women and men from disadvantaged communities to secure dignified and fulfilling work will ensure inclusive development and economic growth in Africa.

Job Summary:  Reporting to the Country Representative, Uganda, the Program Partner will work collaboratively with the Uganda Country team, MSME Technical Expertise Group and other Foundation technical and managerial staff to develop partnership pertinent to Young Africa Works (YAW) in Uganda strategy and support the implementation of such programs. YAW in Uganda is focusing on key priority sectors providing opportunities for young people to secure dignified and fulfilling jobs: Agriculture, Tourism, Construction/Housing, and other emerging sectors. They will interact effectively with senior members of partner organizations to develop and design programs to support MSME start-ups and growth; and incorporate the MSME segment’s needs into the Foundation’s country strategy. They will also serve as a member of the MSME Technical Expertise Group and support the development of country strategies.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

•        Support and contribute to the ongoing definition and development of Country Office strategies and expansion. This work could include conducting due diligence of potential partners and projects, reviewing project design and appropriate documentation, reporting and data collection as well as budget reviews.

•        Identify challenges and opportunities facing MSMEs, including those in the multiple growth sectors opportunity that can be unlocked through education, labour and financial systems to drive job growth.

•        Manage current and future programs as appropriate and distill learnings for Foundation staff.

•        Provide perspective and expertise on emerging issues and trends in youth employment, MSME sector and entrepreneurship growth in Africa.

•        Communicate progress and learnings from projects to colleagues and the wider development community.

•        Build relationships with partner organizations, communities of practice, and global stakeholders.

•        Serve as a local point of contact and collaborator across a range of interested parties including partner organizations, government officials, young people, and private sector leaders on issues of common concern to leverage positive impact toward common goals

•        Represent the Foundation and collaborate with key internal and external stakeholders.

•        Identify and overcome barriers to team effectiveness by sharing knowledge and learnings while offering insights and possible solutions to issues and/or program challenges.

•        Contribute insights to the Foundation’s thought leadership on youth employment in Africa.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

•        The applicant must hold a Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Finance, Business, Development Economics and/or Financial Inclusion.

•        At least seven years of experience in business development, financing and non-financial support to MSMEs or new enterprises is highly preferred. This should include commercial experience and project management in enterprise business development, investing in and/or financing MSMEs in developing countries.

•        Minimum of five (5) years leadership and management experience including managing staff and coaching, mentoring and providing feedback.

•        Strong understanding of MSME segments (from early stage startups to growth-stage SMEs) in Africa and the systemic challenges constraining their growth, with a particularly understanding of the Ugandan context.

•        Solid experience in the Tourism or Construction/Housing sector.

•        Understanding of the role MSMEs can play in economic transformation and job creation.

•        Experience with MFIs, banks or investment companies operational in Africa to finance SMEs.

•        Experience living and working in Africa; knowledge of African social, economic and political contexts would be an asset. Experience living and working in Uganda is highly desirable.

•        Strong budgeting skills with the ability to manage a portfolio of commitments

•        Strong ability to communicate progress and learnings from projects to colleagues and the wider development community.

•        Excellent project management skills, including multi-stakeholder projects.

•        Excellent presentation and listening skills.

•        Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to be flexible and adaptable.

•        Proactive, engaged and a self-starter.

•        Excellent prioritization and time management skills.

•        Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.

•        Excellent oral and written communication skills in English. Knowledge of local languages is an asset.

•        You are flexible, adaptable, and able to execute a range of job duties and changing priorities.

•        You possess excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills with the ability to articulate information to a variety of constituents across cultures.

•        You possess professional maturity, sensitivity with different cultures, and impeccable integrity that exemplify the Foundation’s values.

•        Ability to travel up to 20%

How to Apply:

All candidates should apply online at the link below

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Head of Risk Job Placement - Opportunity Bank

Job Title:            Head of Risk

Organisation: Opportunity Bank

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

About us:

Opportunity Bank is the Bank of choice for all who aspire to a life of dignity and purpose, offering innovative technology led financial solutions and training to transform lives and Communities. The Bank recently obtained a commercial banking licence from Bank of Uganda and is now looking for a likeminded, creative, agile and result driven individual to fill the following position; As a member of the senior management team(Exco), the job holder is responsible for developing and devising mitigation strategies and ensuring follow through to give assurance to the Board, Management and Bank of Uganda that bank-wide risks are identified, measured, managed and reported in line with existing risk management guidelines and by large best global practices. This entails embedding the bank's Enterprise Risk Management ERM with a critical role to proactively identify and understand the potential threats, identify opportunities, actions or events that will adversely affect the bank's ability to achieve its objectives. .

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

·       Designing and implementing an overall risk management process for the Bank, which includes an analysis of the financial and non-financial impact on the Bank

·       Ensure that bank-wide risk management policies, controls and procedures, are effectively implemented, disseminated and complied with across the branch network

·       Develop risk reports for Board and Executive management review to facilitate active risk oversight whilst ensuring that the country's risk framework is in accordance with regulator guidelines

·       Develop and implement an effective countrywide business resumption plan, conducting scenarios analysis and review in a drive to assess potential risk to the business and identifying possible solutions to avoid business interruptions Improve shareholder returns through value based management and control and reduction of visible and hidden costs

·       Establish a comprehensive and continuing training program on the various risks that the Bank faces so as to embed knowledge of policies and procedures across the business and the branch network Develop and periodically review risk management limits, quantitative, measurement ratios and information systems, that, address the bank'st,rişk Profiles in line with vegulator !! guidelines, bank strategic business plan and best practice 1, c

·       Establishing an integrated country-wide framework for **measuring and monitoring all aspects of market risk across the firm, compiling analytical reports for the Assets and Liabilities Committee (ALCO), optimizing the bank's market risk portfolio through business activities and risk transfer strategies.

·        Identify, measure, monitor and manage credit risks, credit risk exposure limits and trends, develop credit risk reports, track exceptions to policies, ensure adequate controls over credit risk and overall, establish an appropriate credit risk environment /culture.

·       Design and implement a fraud risk strategy that will enable the bank to mitigate internal as well as external frauds Lead and empower members of the department in a manner that empowers them to deliver the objectives of the bank strategy.

·       Ensure the bank establishes adequate standards and procedures to guide employees and agents in order to create reasonable stakeholder expectations, ensure standards and expectations are institutionalized, consistently enforced within the bank, evaluate and report on the bank's performance against these standards, procedures, and expectations.

·       Shape a healthy and positive business ethics culture for the Bank through implementation of country ethics program

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

·       The ideal applicant must hold a University degree, preferably in a Business related or Science discipline from a reputable and recognized institution.

·        Possession of a Master's degree or Professional qualifications e.g, CPAU, CA, ACCA, ACIB, etc. would be an added advantage.

·       Specialized training in Risk Management and a strong conceptual awareness of BaselIl requirements.

·       At least 7 years broad banking experience; at least 3 years of which should be as a leader in a Risk function.

·       Knowledge of bank-wide business functional processes as well as banking products and services, strong leadership skills and governance awareness, able to communicate to all stakeholders very well and clearly, knowledge of the Financial Institutions Act and Banking regulatory guidelines, strong business acumen and financial analysis and excellent judgment abilities whilst aware of risk-return

How to apply:

Interested candidates should send their signed application letters together with their curriculum vitae to: The Human Resources Manager, Opportunity Bank Uganda Limited, Plot 1259, Old Kira Road, Littlun . Po. Box 33513, Kampala Note: Applications submitted after, the deadline shall not be accepted

Deadline: Friday, 25th November 2019

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Assistant Manager General Ledger and Asset Control Job Placement - Movit Products Ltd

Job Title:            Assistant Manager General Ledger and asset Control

Organisation: Movit Products Ltd

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

Reports to:        The Head of Finance

About us:

Movit Products Ltd is a Ugandan personal care company based in Kampala, manufacturing personal care products. Its brands include Movit, Radiant, Baby Junior, Skin Guard, Pine and NAN. The company was founded in 1997, by Simpson Birungi as a makeshift workshop in Namasuba, Wakiso District. In 1999 the first Movit product, Herbal Baby Jelly, was put on the market.Over the years, Movit, the company’s flagship name, has grown into one of Uganda’s top cosmetics brands with distribution links in both East Africa and the COMESA regions. Other known products from Movit include the Body Milk Lotion, Junior Petroleum Jelly, Movit No base Relaxer and many more.

Job Summary: The Assistant Manager General Ledger and asset Control will be responsible for managing the general ledger, fixed asset control, cost accounting, reconciliation of financial statements and accounts to ensure data accuracy.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

·       Maintain the chart of accounts and ensure that it is aligned with the finance accounting manual and international financial reporting standards.

·       Manage alignment of all cost centers and perform periodical review of the relevance of cost centers and ledger accounts.

·       Perform period end closure activities and reconciliations as per the financial policies and procedures manual.

·       Perform accounting analysis for cash accruals, accounts payable, accounts receivables and reconciliations to ensure compliance with the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP.)

·       Create and monitor a system of controls, procedures and forms for the recording of fixed assets Manage the fixed assets register and ensure all costs are appropriately allocated in line with the international financial reporting standards.

·       Conduct periodic impairment reviews of assets as well as physical verification of fixed assets. Reconcile general ledger accounts and ensure compliance with financial policies and procedures.

·       Lead the periodical reviews of internal controls and raise any discrepancies with Head of Finance and Chief Finance Officer and develop recommends and updates to accounting policies

·       Oversee the cost accounting and inventory function and ensure compliance with the Financial Policies Procedures Manual.

·       Support the auditors in conducting internal and external audits Participate in business unit and organization wide programs initiatives to support the effective utilisation of SAP system.

·       Coordinate the audit process and monitor compliance with policies and procedures

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

·       The ideal applicant must hold Bachelor's degree in Accounting and Finance or any related field of study

·       A professional qualification in Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)

·       Six (6) years working experience of which four (4)years should be in a supervisory position.

·       Excellent analytical skills and attention to details

·       Good working knowledge of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)Systems like SAP

·       Demonstrable experience of accounting procedures and general controls

·       High level of integrity

·       Interpersonal skills.

How to Apply:

If you believe you can clearly demonstrate your ability to meet the relevant criteria for the roles,

Apply on line at the link below

Click here, please submit your application, including copies of your academic and professional certificates, testimonials and your detailed curriculum vitae and contacts of three (3) professional referees familiar with your qualifications and work experience addressed to:

The Director,

Executive Selection Division,

Deloitte (Uganda) Limited,

Plot 1 Lumumba Avenue,

P. O. Box, 10314 Kampala.

Email or hard copy applications will not be accepted.

Movit is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and committed to diversity and gender equality. Canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification.

Deadline: Friday, 22^nd November 2019

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