Senior Finance Officer Job Placement – Agricultural Business Initiative (aBi) Trust
Job Title: Senior Finance Officer
Organisation: Agricultural Business Initiative (aBi) Trust
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Head of Finance
About US:
The Agricultural Business Initiative (aBi) Trust is supporting agribusiness development in the private sector to achieve the objective of the Government of Uganda’s Competitiveness and Investment Climate Strategy (CICS). The Trust is a multi-donor entity jointly founded by the Governments of Denmark and Uganda. The mandate of aBi Trust is to support the private sector actors to increase their contribution to the agricultural sector by increasing land and labour productivity, and market competitiveness thereby contributing to poverty reduction through economic growth, wealth, and employment creation.
Job Summary: The Senior Finance Officer will ensure that aBi’s financial information and systems is complete and financially sound; that it is managed through a robust and proactive reporting system and provides accurate, financial analysis and business insight to enable comprehensive financial decision making
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Providing accurate, timely and meaningful financial and management information that enables the Board and Senior Management Team to make effective decisions regarding the strategic direction of the organisation
- Manage an efficient accounts payables and receivables system that will ensure aBi’s meets its contractual obligations and safe guards its assets and investments resulting in business continuity
- The jobholder will manage the unit in a manner that empowers them to deliver excellent finanical services to aBi’s stakeholders and results in an engaged and committed team
- Monitor aBi’s spend against budgets and provide regular analysis to communicate and highlight areas of concern resulting in the relevant decisions to be made/ taken
- Ensure that an operational framework is in place that identifies, analyses and informs on the financial impact of loss to the organization, employees, the public, and the environment etc as a result of risk exposures
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant for the Senior Finance Officer must hold a Bachelor’s Degree in; Commerce or Business Administration or a related field majoring in accounting.
- Full qualification ACCA/CPA/CIMA
- Five years of post-graduate experience in development sector finance
- Extensive knowledgeable in donor financial reporting standards and other accounting best practice.
- Proficiency in MS Office particularly Excel and Word, as well as a computerized financial management system.
- Proven experience in grants management and reporting
- Advanced analytical and mathematical skills.
- Experience in budgeting, forecasting and management reporting.
- Excellent attention to detail, organised, and can work to strict deadlines
- Good report writing skills.
- Experience in sub grants management
- Highly proactive and a confident communicator.
How to Apply:
If you feel you meet the above requirements, please send your application enclosing detailed curriculum vitae giving three referees and copies of academic and professional certificates /testimonials by e-mail only to vacancy@abi.co.ug.
NB: The attached documents should not be more than 2 MB. Only Shortlisted candidates who meet the criteria will be contacted.
Deadline: 30th March 2018 by 12:00 Noon
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