Job Title: Accounts Payable Accountant
Organisation: Jibu
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Head of Finance
About US:
Founded in 2012, Jibu is a pioneering a powerful new model that provides opportunities for entrepreneurs to own businesses that ensure access to basic human necessities in underserved, emerging market communities. Jibu has scaled a network of locally owned, economically independent franchises that provide safe drinking water to their communities while offering life-changing training and employment. Empowered by a belief in the ability of eye-to-eye partnership to unleash latent entrepreneurial talent, Jibu is transforming the challenge of addressing basic human needs into an expansive opportunity that allows thousands of young entrepreneurs to build lasting solutions, one neighborhood at a time. The company’s ultimate vision is to train, finance, and grow a network of co-invested business owners who will revolutionize the way critical resources participate in emerging markets.
Job Summary: Jibu Uganda is looking for an Accounts payable Accountant will be responsible for helping Jibu to achieve volume, expansion, profitability (cost savings and total revenue), and impact targets in line with Jibu’s mission and objectives through sound financial reporting and business partnering. The Job Purpose of the Accounts payable accountant is to manage the whole payable process in Jibu.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Maintaining the billing system
- In charge of the back to back sales/revenue cycle
- Generating invoices and account statements
- Performing account/ledger reconciliations
- Maintaining accounts receivable files and records
- Investigating and resolving any irregularities or enquiries in the receivables ledger that may be leading to non-payment
- Daily banking receipting and allocations in the accounting system.
- Drilling into data to investigate billing issues and assisting in resolving.
- Managing queries both internally and externally.
- Generating and sending invoices and completing follow up
- Assisting in general financial management and analysis
- Filing of monthly VAT and Local excise duty returns
- Reconciliation of the input VAT account in the accounting system
- Participate in the monthly cash book reconciliations
- Any Ad-hoc tasks assigned by the line manager
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
The applicant should have relevant qualifications.
How to Apply:
All candidates should apply online at the link below.
Deadline: 31st May 2023