Finance Manager
2025-09-23T07:14:06+00:00
Omia Agribusiness Development Group
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FULL_TIME
Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources
Management
2025-09-29T17:00:00+00:00
Uganda
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Omia Agribusiness is hiring a Finance Manager primarily responsible for financial leadership, steering budgeting, planning, reporting, and controls, while bringing a strong operational mindset to help systematize growth across distribution branches. Joining OMIA at a critical stage as it strengthens internal controls and governance systems, the Finance Manager will also play a pivotal role in embedding these frameworks and driving organizational alignment. This includes supporting behavioral change across teams to ensure systems and accountability measures are consistently adhered to, enabling robust financial management, meticulous execution, and efficient scaling.
Reporting To: Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Location: Arua, Uganda (Headquarters)
Key Responsibilities
- Financial Leadership & Strategy: Lead financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting; manage grant and investor
- funded reporting.
- Build, manage, and update financial models, ensuring accurate and timely projections.
- Oversee financial controls, compliance, and audit preparedness.
- Produce concise reports on historical and forecasted performance, highlighting variances and opportunities.
- Operational Oversight & Scalability: Partner with operations leadership to institutionalize distribution processes, logistics, branch, level budgeting, inventory, and accountability systems.
- Implement scalable financial and operational systems, including branch, level P&Ls, dashboards, and process documentation.
- Establish robust controls and standard operating procedures (SOPs) across branches.
- Grant & Stakeholder Coordination:Manage grant funding, budgeting, reporting, and compliance with donor requirements.
- Support investor relations by preparing financial summaries and due diligence documentation.
- Provide actionable insights to guide strategic decisions regarding scale and efficiency.
- Team & Culture Development: Establish financial and operational performance standards; monitor and report on KPIs, ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting to both investors and grant funders.
- Recruit and mentor junior/branch level finance and operations staff as the business scales.
- Drive institutionalization of process adherence and accountability throughout the organization.
Mandatory Requirements
- Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, or Business.
- At minimum, the candidate should hold CPA/ACCA or any other relevant professional certification.
Experience
- 7+ years of experience in a finance role with at least 3 years at leadership level preferably in agriculture distribution, FMCG, or fast, growing early, stage ventures.
- Demonstrated experience building financial models, analyzing performance and Managing diverse funding streams (including grants and equity).
Competencies & Attributes:
- Exceptionally detail, oriented with disciplined, process, driven work habits.
- Systems thinker: adept at designing, implementing, and enforcing processes and accountability frameworks.
- Operationally savvy: hands, on experience with logistics, inventory, and budgeting across multiple locations, with strong competency in ERP tools (e.g., QuickBooks or Odoo), including setup, customization, and usage.
- Strong communicator, capable of translating complex financial data into clear insights for stakeholders.
- Independent and entrepreneurial: able to lead confidently in dynamic, resource constrained environments.
- Aligned with Omia’s mission of empowering farmers and promoting agriculture, led growth.
Added advantage:
- A Master’s degree is an added advantage
Financial Leadership & Strategy: Lead financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting; manage grant and investor funded reporting. Build, manage, and update financial models, ensuring accurate and timely projections. Oversee financial controls, compliance, and audit preparedness. Produce concise reports on historical and forecasted performance, highlighting variances and opportunities. Operational Oversight & Scalability: Partner with operations leadership to institutionalize distribution processes, logistics, branch, level budgeting, inventory, and accountability systems. Implement scalable financial and operational systems, including branch, level P&Ls, dashboards, and process documentation. Establish robust controls and standard operating procedures (SOPs) across branches. Grant & Stakeholder Coordination:Manage grant funding, budgeting, reporting, and compliance with donor requirements. Support investor relations by preparing financial summaries and due diligence documentation. Provide actionable insights to guide strategic decisions regarding scale and efficiency. Team & Culture Development: Establish financial and operational performance standards; monitor and report on KPIs, ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting to both investors and grant funders. Recruit and mentor junior/branch level finance and operations staff as the business scales. Drive institutionalization of process adherence and accountability throughout the organization.
Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, or Business. At minimum, the candidate should hold CPA/ACCA or any other relevant professional certification. Experience 7+ years of experience in a finance role with at least 3 years at leadership level preferably in agriculture distribution, FMCG, or fast, growing early, stage ventures. Demonstrated experience building financial models, analyzing performance and Managing diverse funding streams (including grants and equity).
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Vacancy title:
Finance Manager
[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources, Category: Management]
Jobs at:
Omia Agribusiness Development Group
Deadline of this Job:
Monday, September 29 2025
Duty Station:
Arua | Arua | Uganda
Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, September 23 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
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JOB DETAILS:
Omia Agribusiness is hiring a Finance Manager primarily responsible for financial leadership, steering budgeting, planning, reporting, and controls, while bringing a strong operational mindset to help systematize growth across distribution branches. Joining OMIA at a critical stage as it strengthens internal controls and governance systems, the Finance Manager will also play a pivotal role in embedding these frameworks and driving organizational alignment. This includes supporting behavioral change across teams to ensure systems and accountability measures are consistently adhered to, enabling robust financial management, meticulous execution, and efficient scaling.
Reporting To: Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Location: Arua, Uganda (Headquarters)
Key Responsibilities
- Financial Leadership & Strategy: Lead financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting; manage grant and investor
- funded reporting.
- Build, manage, and update financial models, ensuring accurate and timely projections.
- Oversee financial controls, compliance, and audit preparedness.
- Produce concise reports on historical and forecasted performance, highlighting variances and opportunities.
- Operational Oversight & Scalability: Partner with operations leadership to institutionalize distribution processes, logistics, branch, level budgeting, inventory, and accountability systems.
- Implement scalable financial and operational systems, including branch, level P&Ls, dashboards, and process documentation.
- Establish robust controls and standard operating procedures (SOPs) across branches.
- Grant & Stakeholder Coordination:Manage grant funding, budgeting, reporting, and compliance with donor requirements.
- Support investor relations by preparing financial summaries and due diligence documentation.
- Provide actionable insights to guide strategic decisions regarding scale and efficiency.
- Team & Culture Development: Establish financial and operational performance standards; monitor and report on KPIs, ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting to both investors and grant funders.
- Recruit and mentor junior/branch level finance and operations staff as the business scales.
- Drive institutionalization of process adherence and accountability throughout the organization.
Mandatory Requirements
- Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, or Business.
- At minimum, the candidate should hold CPA/ACCA or any other relevant professional certification.
Experience
- 7+ years of experience in a finance role with at least 3 years at leadership level preferably in agriculture distribution, FMCG, or fast, growing early, stage ventures.
- Demonstrated experience building financial models, analyzing performance and Managing diverse funding streams (including grants and equity).
Competencies & Attributes:
- Exceptionally detail, oriented with disciplined, process, driven work habits.
- Systems thinker: adept at designing, implementing, and enforcing processes and accountability frameworks.
- Operationally savvy: hands, on experience with logistics, inventory, and budgeting across multiple locations, with strong competency in ERP tools (e.g., QuickBooks or Odoo), including setup, customization, and usage.
- Strong communicator, capable of translating complex financial data into clear insights for stakeholders.
- Independent and entrepreneurial: able to lead confidently in dynamic, resource constrained environments.
- Aligned with Omia’s mission of empowering farmers and promoting agriculture, led growth.
Added advantage:
- A Master’s degree is an added advantage
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 84
Level of Education: bachelor degree
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