Vacancy title:
Finance Officer

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Nonprofit, and NGO, Category: Accounting & Finance, Management]

Jobs at:
Reliefweb

Deadline of this Job:
Sunday, October 12 2025

Duty Station:
Kampala | Kampala | Uganda

Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, October 8 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

Background:

Since 1993, as an international non-governmental organization, Acted has been committed to immediate humanitarian relief to support those in urgent need and protect people’s dignity, while co-creating longer term opportunities for sustainable growth and fulfilling people’s potential. Acted endeavors to respond to humanitarian crises and build resilience; promote inclusive and sustainable growth; co-construct effective governance and support the building of civil society worldwide by investing in people and their potential.

Responsibilities:

• Respect and follow-up the ACTED’s financial procedures.
• Support the project managers/Area coordinator to follow-up financial indicators of ACTED’s projects.
• Help the Finance Officer/Area Coordinator to have a clear vision of the area’s financial situation.
• Establish monthly updates of the Budget Follow-Up.
• Dealing with transfers and exchanges of money.
• Petty cash management.
• Cash flow follow-up (PRATIC).
• Monthly Update of the Timesheets, Allocation Table and Altrose with the help of the CFM.

Qualifications:

• University’s degree in Finance or Business Administration.
• 3+ years of relevant experience in finance, preferably with a non-profit organization.
• Good experience in working with computerized accounting systems; Experience in IC, SAGA, Quickbooks.
• Proficient in computer applications, especially with MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Experience:

Typically, 3+ years of relevant experience in finance, preferably with a non-profit organization.

Other Details:

Good Knowledge of accounting and bookkeeping procedures. Advance MS Excel Skill. Familiarity with accounting software. Extreme attention to detail. Highly proactive. Motivated by problem-solving.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: bachelor degree

Job application procedure
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Qualified Uganda Nationals with the required qualifications/skills are invited to submit their applications accompanied by detailed curriculum vitae and cover letter as a single Document in PDF with the cover letter being on the first page and the CV starting on the second page, detailing three work related referees and contacts. Send before 5:00PM before the 12TH of Oct 2025 with the subject line as FINANACE OFFICER. Note that Applications sent without this exact subject line will not be shortlisted.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Shortlisting will be done on a rolling basis and ACTED reserves the right to hire before the deadline.

Acted will at no stage of recruitment process request candidate to make payments of any kind. Further, Acted has not retained any agent(s) in connection with recruitment. Acted is committed to protecting beneficiaries within our programmes from exploitation and abuse and any kind of misconduct. Acted has specific policies, including PSEA and Child Protection, which outlines the expected behavior and the responsibility of all staff, beneficiaries, consultants and other stakeholders and has zero tolerance towards misconduct. Any candidate offered a job with Acted will be expected to sign Acted’s organizational Policies and Code of Conduct as an annex to their contract of employment and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these documents.

Acted is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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