Organisation: AMREF Health Africa
Project Name: USAID Regional Health Integration to Enhance
Services in the South West Uganda (RHITES)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Technical Director
AMREF
Health Africa is an international African organization founded in Kenya in
1957. Our Headquarters are in Nairobi with major programmes in Ethiopia, Kenya,
South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda, and two regional nubs in Southern and Western
Africa based in South Africa and Senegal Respectively. Working with and through
African communities, health systems and governments, Amref Health Africa aims
to close the gap that prevents people from accessing their basic right to
health. Amref Health Africa is committed to improving the health of people in
Africa by partnering with and empowering communities. Our Vision is Lasting
Health Change in Africa.
About USAID RHITES Project:
Amref
Health Africa is implementing the USAID Regional Health Integration to Enhance
Services in the South West Uganda project that aims to increase the
availability, accessibility, and quality of integrated health services
including HIV and TB prevention, care and treatment; maternal, neonatal, and
child health services; family planning; nutrition assessment and counseling and
support; malaria prevention and treatment; and other primary care services.
Job Summary: The Program Accountant will provide accounting
management support, design and monitor the implementation of Financial Systems
ensuring compliance to designated projects in line with Amref Health Africa,
Financial Policies, Procedures and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Budgets:
- Offer support in the preparation and
submission of annual operational budgets for projects; - Actively participate in the preparation
of costed work plans; - Prepare and submit periodic
budgetary control statements to determine financial performance of the
relevant Programme and individual projects within the Programme. - HR Management:
- Mentor and supervise the Assistant Accountants through work
allocation, monitoring and coaching; - In charge of building the capacity and
performance management of the Assistant Accountants. - Operational Support: The
incumbent will provide operational support to Project Managers on
expenditure management to include: - Short-term action plans and expenditure
scheduling; - Processing, approval and coding of
expenditure (claims, imprests, surrenders, field office returns and
purchase requisitions) and internal recoveries in accordance with approved
work plans and budgets; - Regular review meetings with
Programme Manager and Project Managers to resolve and discuss various
financial and accounting issues and queries; - Seek ways to improve timeliness and
quality of service provided by finance and assist in systems improvement;
- Assist with systematic and ad-hoc
analysis of project costs as a basis for evaluation, budgeting and
operational research studies. - Reporting:
- Prepare donor financial statements
and reports and call down requests as specified in the respective grant
agreements and other internal financial reports; - Prepare monthly progress report to
the management on project funding status and cash management. - Fundraising: Participate
in proposal development. - Compliance and risk management: Ensure compliance with donor and
AMREF’s requirements. - Audits: Participate in internal audits as scheduled
and in external audits by providing auditors with accounting documents as
requested and providing explanations for audit queries. - Financial performance: Keen review of monthly income and
expenditure statements with project Managers.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The Amref Program Accountant should
preferably hold a University degree in Bachelor of Commerce/Business
Administration/Science and Accounting, with a major in Accounting/Finance
and or a full professional qualification in A.C.C.A, CPA or CIMA or
equivalent. An MBA is an added advantage - At least three years’ of post qualification
experience. - Extensive Computer knowledge in Microsoft
Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SUN Accounting and Access is required. - Proven knowledge of Generally Accepted
Accounting Principles and Internal Control Procedures. - Excellent written and Oral Communication
skills are essential, and the incumbent must be a team builder, who is able
to work successfully in a multicultural environment. - High degree of integrity
All
candidates are encouraged to send an updated CV including three professional
referees and cover letter addressed to the Human Resources Manager, Amref
Health Africa in Uganda via E-mail to: jobs.amrefuganda@amref.org. Emails
should not exceed 2MB.
Deadline: 29th January, 2016
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