Finance Manager Job Placement – ACLAIM Africa Limited
Job Title: Finance Manager
Organisation: ACLAIM Africa Limited
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Salary Scale: UGX 6,500,000 /=
Reports to: General Manager – Corporate Services
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 Finance Manager 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.
- Design costing profile for the Lodges and advise on pricing to ensure a balance between competitiveness and profitability.
- Develop budget preparation templates, share with the different department heads and guide them through the budgeting process.
- Consolidate the different department budgets into a master budget for presentation to Management and the Board Audit Committee.
- Relay approved budgets to Accountants for recording in the Accounting Software.
Financial Accounting and Internal Controls:
- Support and implement internal control systems that safeguard GLS assets.
- Lead the receipt, discussion and prioritization of payment requisitions in the weekly cash flow forecasting meetings.
- Review and approve all payment vouchers with adequate supporting documents.
- Review all financial transactions recorded in the Accounting Software to ensure that they are accurately, timely and efficiently captured to enhance reliable financial reports for decision-making.
- Monitor the staff operational advance accounts on a monthly basis to ensure that they are kept at a minimum.
- Review and approve tax invoices before submission to clients.
- Review bank reconciliation statements to ensure that errors or irregularities in the cashbooks or bank accounts are handled timely.
- Have custody of the external back-ups of financial transactions in the Accounting Software.
- Ensure that Accountants maintain up to date fixed assets register.
Management Accounting and Reporting:
- Review monthly financial reports before being presented to management
- Prepare and present analyzed quarterly financial reports to Board Audit Committee.
Working capital Management:
- Prepare and monitor quarterly cash flow forecasts.
- Take the lead in debtor follow up to ensure alignment to credit policy.
Tax Management:
- Review monthly payroll to ensure completeness, accuracy and timeliness
- Monitor the tax tracker to ensure that Accountants are preparing, submitting and paying all relevant taxes and statutory payments (PAYE, LST, Corporate Tax, VAT and NSSF) timely.
- Review tax control accounts in Accounting Software to ensure that they are cleared.
- Provide technical expertise to the company for tax planning.
Audit Management:
- Review all prepared files for statutory external audit before submission to the auditors.
- 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.
- Carry out analysis of audited financial statements and present the same to the BOD Audit Committee.
People Management:
- Manage performance of staff supervised including goal setting, regular feedback sessions and appraisals.
- Obtain understanding 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 GLS values of excellence, integrity and professionalism.
Key Performance Indicators:
- Monthly Bank Reconciliation reviewed by 10th date of the following month.
- Budget approved before the commencement of the year.
- All monthly statutory returns filed by 10th date of the following month and payment by the 14th of the following month.
- Accurate and reliable quarterly finance report submitted by the 15th date of the following month.
- Unqualified opinion in audit report by 30th October of every year.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant must hold a Bachelors’ Degree in Accounting or related field
- Full ACCA / CPA qualification
- Six years of accounting experience with minimum 3 in a Managerial position.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Experience in the hospitality sector is an added advantage.
- Proficiency in use of QuickBooks accounting software.
- 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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