Position Ref No: EUL/SS/04
Department: Finance
Closing Date: 20 September 2022
Location: Kampala
Direct Manager: Finance Manager

Job Purpose
• To assist the Financial Manager in preparing weekly forecasts, budgets, monthl management accounts as well as financial interpretation of results.
• To reconcile and balance income statements and balance sheets and process and maintain intercompany and treasury accounts.

Educational Qualifications
• Relevant Accounting qualification

• Experience Requirements
• 3 to 6 years experience in accounting.
• Experience in budgets & forecasting.
• Must be proficient in Excel and preferably have experience in working on Great
• Plains.
• Knowledge
• Knowledge of Accounting Practices.
• Proficiency in Accounting Software.
• Ability to Prepare Financial Statements.
• Knowledge of General Business Practices.
• Ability to Analyze Data.
• Critical Thinking Skills.
• Accounting Organizational Skills.
• Time Management Skills

• Key Job Responsibilities
• Monthly reconciliation and revenue reporting – cash streams – ensuring all the cutoff for revenue
• Financial reporting, Financial Pack, Tax Pack, Flash reports, Consolidation reports.
• Ensure internal control systems are in place – policies and procedures, IT developments together with internal control developments
• Compile accurate forecasts and budgets
• Prepare Annual financial statements
• Ensure effective functioning of the financial staff.
• Contract management – supplier and customer contracts
• Authorisation of payments
• Current asset management – debtors and creditors
• Capex review
• Input for RPP’s and budgets – into the Great Plains system
• Prepare all the monthly journals for processing by the cashbook clerk
• Assist the financial manager with monthly pack input, copying and binding of the pack
• Check and release all the EFT’s relating to wages (together with Financial
• Manager)
• Check and sign cheques
• Allocation of revenues to relevant disposal lines
• Assist managers with cost queries
• Assist the financial manager as required

Key Competencies
• Assertive
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to work under pressure
• Honesty and integrity
• Self-motivation
• Self-disciplined and organized
• Logical thinking
• Continuous improvement
• Sense of responsibility