Senior Finance Officer job at INTERNATIONAL LIFELINE FUND
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Vacancy title:
Senior Finance Officer

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Nonprofit, and NGO , Category: Accounting & Finance ]

Jobs at:

INTERNATIONAL LIFELINE FUND

Deadline of this Job:
24 April 2023  

Duty Station:
Within Uganda , Lira , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Friday, April 07, 2023 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:
Position Description: The Senior Finance Officer is primarily responsible for providing day to day operational support to the finance department at Country office level.

Key Responsibilities:
Analyze financial information and make recommendations to the program teams and senior management for decision making
Summarize financial results and effectively communicate them and provide performance reporting, metrics, and analysis of results
Contribute to the year-end audit
Assist in budget preparation

General Duties
• Review completeness of supporting documents & preparing payments for review and release
• Ensuring all written and signed checks are paid or bank transfers made to the vendors in a timely manner with all supporting documents completed.
• Keep a copy of paid checks with financial supporting documents.
• Maintain complete supporting financial documents in file organized chronologically.
• Filing all finance documents correctly and ensuring records are up to date at all times.
• Follow-up timely accountabilities and field returns for travel, purchase and activity advances.
• Making regular follow ups on all income & proceeds and ensure proper banking and recording of the same on time.
• Liaise with banks, NSSF and any relevant tax authorities as may be required.
• Ensure that adequate finance forms and templates are available on display for the team use.
• Perform any other duties that may be assigned.

QuickBooks
• Maintenance of QuickBooks ledger for all bank entries, petty cash, vendor and customer transactions
• Post transactions into the system.
• Review transaction for accuracy of posting details {check number, account code, project code, date, etc...).
• Prepare monthly account reconciliations for the vendor and customer sub ledgers for all balance sheet accounts.
• Generate monthly management accounts.

Petty Cash
• Review petty cash requests and make timely replenishment.
• Conduct monthly petty cash reconciliations.

Program management
• Assist programs in planning the weekly and monthly financial activities & annual / Quarterly/ Monthly work plans including forecasts.
• Participating in the regular evaluation of project activities and performance.
• Preparation, distribution and presentation of monthly financial reports and in form of BVA’s.

Qualifications and Experience
• A Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Business Administration, with a an ACCA or CPA qualification.
• Minimum of three (5) years of accounting experience of which 3 – years is at a senior / managerial level, preferably in an international or multi-cultural environment
• Excellent interpersonal, prior managerial experience and organizational skills.
• Effective communication, problem solving and critical decision making.
• Ability and flexibility to handle high levels of pressure to meet very strict deadlines
• Excellent attention to details
• High integrity, unquestionable character and openness coupled with commitment to good management.


Work Hours: 8


Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education:
Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure

Please send a copy of your cover letter, resume, and academic credentials to Lifeline’s office by e-mail or online using the information below. The deadline for submission is April 24th , 2023 by the end of the business day. Only successful candidates will be contacted.

NB: Note that this position is only open to nationals. Any kind of lobbying will lead to automatic disqualification. Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply.

Interested and qualified click here to apply.


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Job Info
Job Category: Accounting/ Finance jobs in Uganda
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 24 April 2023
Duty Station: Lira
Posted: 07-04-2023
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 07-04-2023
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 07-04-2067
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