2 Accountant Job Opportunities – ACLAIM Africa Limited
Job Title: Accountant (2 Job Placements)
Organisation: ACLAIM Africa Limited
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Salary Scale: UGX 2,500,000 /=
Reports to: Finance Manager
About US:
ACLAIM Africa Limited is a leadership and management consulting firm. They would like to recruit for a valuable client, a key player in the Hospitality Industry.
Job Summary: The Accountant will ensure that the organisation has a robust and excellent accounting system that enables consistently accurate, timely and reliable financial reporting to meet different stakeholder requirements.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Strategy Planning and Implementation:
- Provide input into the Strategic Planning process.
- Provide input into the Budgeting Process, especially with respect to costs that do not relate to a specific department.
- Record approved budget in Accounting Software.
Financial Accounting and Internal Controls:
- Support and implement an internal control systems that safeguards company assets.
- Review all payment requisitions and supporting documents for completeness, accuracy and authenticity before preparing payment vouchers.
- Record all company financial transactions in the Accounting Software accurately, timely and efficiently to enhance reliable financial reports for decision-making.
- Ensure that financial transactions are filed appropriately, both physically and electronically, to enhance easy retrieval.
- Follow up and review staff operational advance accountabilities to ensure that they are timely, reasonable and well supported.
- Receive client advances appropriately in Accounting System and prepare accurate Tax Invoices against them for income recognition.
- Prepare timely and accurate bank reconciliation statements to ensure that errors or irregularities in the cashbooks or bank accounts are handled appropriately.
- Ensure that the financial transactions in the accounting software are backed-up regularly.
- Carry out fixed asset accounting including managing the fixed assets register.
Management Accounting and Reporting
- Prepare and present analyzed monthly financial reports to management
- Prepare and present analyzed quarterly financial reports to Finance Manager for release to the Board
- Ensure that expenditure is in accordance with the budget.
Working Capital Management
- Prepare and monitor monthly cash flow forecasts.
- Follow up clients for payment.
Tax Management:
- During payroll preparation, ensure correct deductions are made including the non-statutory and statutory (PAYE, LST and NSSF).
- Correctly maintain PAYE, WHT, LST and NSSF Control Accounts in the Accounting Software and reconcile them monthly.
- Ensure timely submission and timely payment of PAYE, WHT, LST and NSSF returns to the relevant authorities.
- Prepare and submit WHT Certificates to parties from whom taxes are withheld.
Audit Management:
- Prepare company financial statements for statutory external audit.
- Adequately prepare for external and internal audits and offer the required support during the exercise.
- Follow up and resolve issues raised from external and internal audits.
People Management:
- Manage performance of staff supervised including goal setting, regular feedback sessions and appraisals.
- Understand and address the training needs of staff supervised.
- Ensure discipline within the staff supervised.
General:
- Undertake reasonable requests made by company including flexible hours, location and responsibilities.
- Ensure knowledge of and compliance to all policies of the company.
- Adhere to company values of excellence, integrity and professionalism.
Key Performance Indicators:
- Monthly Bank Reconciliation completed and available for review by 5th date of the following month.
- Monthly Statutory returns filed by 10th date of the following month and payment by the 14th of the following month.
- All staff operational advances properly reconciled with outstanding advances not exceeding 30 days or else, escalated.
- Monthly finance report submitted by 13th date of the following month
- Facilitate annual external audit and close with unqualified audit report opinion by 30th October of every year.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant must hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or related field
- 2nd stage of full ACCA/CPA qualification
- Proficiency in use of QuickBooks accounting software.
- Three years of accounting experience.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Experience in the hospitality sector is an added advantage.
- Highly organized and disciplined.
- High attention to detail.
- Leader of self and others.
- Personable and good team player.
- Committed to learning and to training others.
How to Apply:
All candidates should apply online at the link below.
Deadline: 13th April 2018
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