Finance and Administration Manager Job Careers – Sole Hope
Job Title: Finance and Administration Manager
Organization: Sole Hope
Duty Station: Jinja, Uganda
About US:
Sole Hope’s mission is to offer hope, healthier lives, and freedom from foot-related diseases through education, jobs, and medical relief. Our programs include school and village clinics, a Hope center and clinic, a shoe production workshop, education programs and income generating activities.
Job Summary: This is an exceptional opportunity for a high level professional individual to manage our financial systems, donor funding and company administrative duties for Sole Hope, Uganda. The Finance and Administration Manager is a senior management position reporting direct to the Country Director. The role will based at our office in Buwenda-Jinja. .
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Oversee company administration and compliance within statutory requirements within Sole Hope’s finance and administration company policy and procedures.
- Monitor and produce financial reporting on institutional grant funding.
- Provide regular reports detailing donor and fundraising financial engagement.
- Uphold complete documentation, stewardship and accountability of financial transactions.
- Ensure budgets and forecasts are prepared and submitted in line with Sole Hope’s weekly senior management meeting, monthly Executive meetings, and quarterly Board meetings.
- Provide accurate and timely financial information is issued to relevant internal departments for reporting purposes to Sole Hope’s donors and key stakeholders.
- Maintain a robust budgeting, financial management and tracking system is in place for accountability of purchase orders, approvals incomes and expenditures.
- Oversee administrative duties including logistics, procurement and office administration.
- Conduct best working practices and implementation of company administration in line with state internal and external taxation reporting, and the import and export procedures on the international movement of goods.
- Support, mentor and supervise staff to carry out day-to-day finance and administrative functions to ensure compliance with financial controls and operational systems.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate must hold a Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting or another relevant field and a professional certification such as CPA or ACCA.
- At least eight years of experience in increasing roles of responsibility and oversight of finance and administrative functions with donor funded organisations especially USAID and EU funded projects.
- At least five years’ experience in a management position
- Practical working knowledge of QuickBooks accounting system and conversance with MS Office applications including Word, Excel, Power Point, and Outlook
- Experience working within an NGO
- Excellent communication and people skills
How to Apply:
All Ugandan nationals who meet the criteria are encouraged to apply.
Please send your application and CV by email to: hr@solehope.org
Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted for interviews. Lobbying for favours will lead to automatic disqualification of the candidate
Deadline: Friday 17th July 2020 at 5:00 pm