Uganda: Senior Finance Manager | Uganda Jobs Vacancies, Employment, Career Opportunities in Uganda. - 2015

Organization: World Vision

Country: Uganda

Closing date: 09 Jan 2015

Position:Senior Finance Manager

Report to: Finance Director

Location: National Office, Kampala

Purpose of the Position:

To provide strategic financial management leadership and support the implementation of financial policies to ensure effective resource utilization and safeguarding of World Uganda assets

Description of main Duties and responsibilities:

Leadership Management

• To provide leadership and management of the National Office field finance function by planning, directing and controlling the financial resources of the unit in line with World Vision policies/procedures and with International Accounting Standards.


• Participate in World Vision Uganda (WVU) Senior Management, Regional and Cluster meetings and represent finance division.


• Follow up with regions/clusters and national staff on the implementation of new partnership initiatives. Budget development and coordination


• Coordination of the provision of technical support in budget development process to the National Office, Regional Finance Officers, Operations Managers and clusters as per World Vision International budgeting guidelines.


• Consolidation of World Vision Uganda’s annual budgets and development of Cost Allocation (CAL) annual operating budget.


• Monitoring of expenditure against budgets and ensuring that spending is based on committed funds. Financial reporting and analysis


• Review of Financial reports for accuracy and completeness.


• Working with the Accounts Manager to prepare management expenditure and budget utilization analyses project/cluster/regions management to monitor spending


• Coordination of the year-end financial reporting and carry forward processes. Finance risk management


• Regular review of internal controls at the field to ensure that WV Uganda is protected from the inherent risk violations.


• Follow up on implementation of internal and external audit recommendations. Cash and treasury Management


• Ensuring target low at all times at the Cluster/ Project Offices.


• Ensure submission of timely Clusters/ Projects funding requests. Manage the capacity building initiatives for the National Office finance teams


• Organize & conduct Finance related trainings professionally for World Vision Uganda teams at the Region/clusters and National office level for enhanced finance capacity.


• Roll out any new Global Centre Initiatives to the national office and coordinate finance related trainings.


• Conduct regular review visits to the programs and provide coaching to the accountants when required. External and Internal Audits management


• Coordinate all internal and external National Office audits on behalf of the Finance Director


• Perform regular reviews of the audit reports and follow up on the implementation of audit recommendations. External and Internal divisional communications


• Liaise with World Vision support offices and donors in the provision of information, reports and queries.


• Communicate with banks and other external organization on behalf of World Vision Uganda

Qualifications:

Education/Knowledge/Technical Skills and Experience

• Holder of Bachelor of Business Administration or Bachelor of Commerce


• Full member of CPA or ACCA, or its equivalent coupled with a minimum of 4 years experience in reputable organization preferably an NGO.


• Knowledgeable on grant accounting and experience in donor funding e.g. USAID, DFID, UN etc requirements.


• Demonstrable experience in strategic management, results based management in financial matters.


• Computer literate: especially in Sun accounting systems, spreadsheets, Internet skills.


• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, good interpersonal relation skills.


• Complete compatibility with WV’s Mission, ethos, policies and core values.


• A team player.


• Demonstrable ability to work with minimum supervision

Only Ugandan Nationals are encouraged to apply

How to apply:

Qualified and Interested candidates should get the details of this job and how to apply from our Careers site: http://careers.wvi.org/job-opportunities-in-uganda