Fresher Accountant Job Opportunities – Management Sciences for Health (MSH)
Job Title: Accountant
Organization: Management Sciences for Health (MSH)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Accounting Manager
About US:
Management Sciences for Health (MSH) is a non-profit international health organization composed of nearly 2500 people from more than 74 nationalities working in over 50 countries. Our mission is to save lives and improve the health of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health. Together with our partners, we are helping managers and leaders in developing countries to create stronger management systems that improve health services for the greatest health impact.
Job Summary: The Accountant’s main responsibility is safeguarding the assets of Management Sciences for Health and ultimately the donors against fraud, loss or misuse and to ensure proper documentation and processing of the finances of the organization. The Accountant is primarily responsible for, but is not limited to, payments for activities and operations, petty cash and activity advance reconciliations, and supporting the Finance Unit Manager in carrying out the responsibilities of the accounting department. The Accountant is aware of and adheres to MSH’s procurement integrity standards in all activities. S/he is a member of the MSH Uganda Country Operations Management Unit (COMU) and reports directly to the Finance Unit Manager.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Ensures that funds expended in the country is done in accordance with “Generally Accepted Accounting Principles”, MSH policy, donor regulations and requirements, Ugandan law, standard operating procedures, and best business practices.
- Ensures the expeditious transfer and disbursement of funds to sub grantees and sub contractors and financial reporting of expenditures.
- Record all financial transactions into the approved MSH field expense accounting system (currently QuickBooks). Upload monthly reports for the review of the Senior Accountant Manager each month.
- Ensure that payments are done promptly
- Prepare and process all Payment Vouchers, General Journals and Deposit Vouchers ensuring that the documents are legal and authentic and that all relevant and adequate support documentation is attached.
- Ensures that all advances are cleared / collected on time. Ensure that every financial transaction is properly approved by a budget-holder signatory, is properly documented, files are complete and demonstrates evidence of compliance with MSH policy, donor regulations, Ugandan law, and standard operating procedures. Prepare advance analysis as required
- Ensure that all costs and travels have adequate prior authorization and approval prior to payment remittance. Follow up all discrepancies identified.
- Assist with documentation required for VAT claims and reports.
- Assist with bank reconciliations
- Makes sure that transfers to field offices are made according to approved requests.
- Makes sure that transfers to Mobile Money service providers are done in a timely manner, and that MM payments are done in an efficient, timely manner.
- Ensure that financial documents are properly filed and kept safely at all times.
- Receive, review and liquidate petty cash for all district offices and central office promptly.
- Process the payroll voucher based on the timesheets received by month end, paying particular attention that all COMU staff time is recorded against the various projects
- Prepare withholding tax certificates for all appropriate payments and distribute these accordingly.
- Ensures that all payments for purchases of goods and services are made according to MSH regulations, and that actions are governed by the highest standards of personal and business conduct as stipulated in the Procurement Policy Guidelines and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
- Contribute to maintaining teamwork, discipline sound work relationships and productivity
- Perform other duties as may be assigned from time-to-time
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicants for the Management Sciences for Health (MSH) Accountant job placement must hold a degree in Business Administration or equivalent accounting qualifications;
- Two to four years of experience in implementing accounting functions.
- Capacity to deal with multi-tasks and be able to adhere to tight deadlines, and excellent time management skills;
- A strong accounting experience, and experience in dealing with complex budgets, is an added advantage;
- Demonstrated experience to provide technical assistance to organization and conduct trainings.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills and fluency in English
- Experience in maintaining excellent communication with Headquarters.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates who wish to join the Management Sciences for Health in the aforementioned capacity are encouraged to Apply Online by clicking on the link below.
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