Apply for an Accounting Job at SEEP Uganda Limited

Job Title:     Accountant

Organisation: SEEP Uganda Limited (SUL)

Duty Station: Kampala, Ugand

About US:

SEEP Uganda Limited (SUL) is a Non-deposit taking Microfinance Company incorporated under the laws of Uganda in April 2017. For 7(Seven) years SEEP (Socio-Economic Empowerment Program) was actively implemented as a Microfinance program under AIDS Healthcare Foundation – Uganda Cares benefiting HIV positive living patients only at several clinic locations all over the country.

Job Summary:  The Accountant is responsible for the daily financial functions related to the collection, accuracy, recording, analysis and presentation of the company’s financial operations.

The accountant usually has a variety of administrative roles within the company’s operations.  The role will be at management committee level and the jobholder is expected to provide leadership in administration, human resource and operations.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Processing payment requests after verifying supporting documents as per financial policy, contract with vendors and understanding budget implications
• Track income and repayment of loans
• Make provision of expenditure on a monthly basis.
• Issue receipts for funds received and account for it in books of accounts.
• Liaison with banks to ensure timely payment processing.
• Preparation of Bank Reconciliation Statement.
• Post all checks and journal vouchers on computer, printing memos after posting and treating them accordingly.
• Book keeping and primary accounting records and petty cash imprest management;
• Filing and coding of all vouchers/documents as per chart of accounts, including proper verification of receipts and payments to ensure accuracy of information;
• Ensuring proper classification of transactions as assets, liabilities, income and expenses, and must check on all entries entered in the system; to ascertain their genuineness, accuracy and who authorized them;
• Preparing of monthly and yearly reports of all Income and Expenditure results, trial balance extraction, bank reconciliation and income statements;

Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 

• The ideal candidate must hold a Bachelors of Commerce/Finance Degree (Accounting), BBA (Accounting) or in any other relevant/related field. Possession of CPA/ACCA is an added advantage
• Five years of accounting experience in a regulated financial institution.
• Computer literacy will be an added advantage.
• Should be willing to travel in any part of the country.

How to Apply:

All qualified and interested candidate should send their email applications (Cover Letter and CV ONLY) to: globalhr.africa@aidshealth.org mentioning position applied for and location in the subject line. The email should not be larger than 2 MB – any larger email will not be considered.

Deadline: Monday 15^th October, 2018 at 5:00pm