CABCS envisions herself as a professional, self-sustaining, competitive, agribusiness capacity building services provider that empowers her clients to improve production, marketing and incomes from agriculture CABCS exist to “provide quality and cutting-edge agribusiness capacity services geared towards building a community of prosperous farmers who are environmentally responsible, food secure, with sustainable income from farming and diverse agro-investment options organized in marketing cooperatives that are profitable and with corporate leadership.”
CABCS seeks to achieve this mission through effective coordination, networking, market intelligence, agribusiness knowledge brokering, capacity building, resource mobilization, crop financing and policy influencing. CABCS vales are Equity. Trust, Professionalism, Quality services, Result orientation,
Accountability and Business mind.
The company seeks to recruit result-oriented persons of inner motivation to fill the listed vacancies.
Position: FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION MANAGER
This is a senior management position that will offer overall guidance and management of finance and administration of other resources of the organization The officer wilt oversee budgeting and accounting processes, securing funding from flexible sources and donors.
Roles of the Finance and Administration Manager
• Identify, initiate financial proposals for resource mobilization and engage in negotiations to ensure adequate funding.
• Support the CEO in maintaining donor relations through timely response to relevant inquiries and queries and sharing updates based on interest issues.
• Control the finance and administration to ensure internal compliance to policy, legal, and stakeholders’ requirements.
• Execute cash management strategies and direct investment activities ensuring good returns on venture assets.
• Present progressive finance and administration management reports, planning, performance trends, and minutes of finance and administration meetings.
• Supervise, mentor, coach finance and administration staff, and inspire them for efficient performance.
• Present accurate and timely monthly, quarterly, annual financial and audit reports to the CEO conforming to financial reporting and advice to donors to meet identified requirements.
• Coordinate and produce to the CEO accurate and timely monthly, quarterly and annual budgets.
• Manage daily financial and administration functions on travel, procurement, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, internal controls and use of the finance system.
Job requirement
Required Qualifications
• A bachelors’ degree in accountancy, economics, business administration, management or relevant courses is necessary
• A professional course such as ACCA is advantageous
• Postgraduate qualification in financial management is an added advantage
• At least 5 years of working experience in NGOs/ Companies at a senior financial management position
• Knowledge of computerized accounting packages like Spreadsheets and QuickBooks
• Capacity in financial management and financial reporting
• Supervision planning and management
• Human resources management
• Strategic innovations in organizational sustainability
Positions available: One
Nature of employment: Three years renewable contract
Salary: Attractive
Duty station: Fort Portal with minimum travel to the field
How to apply
Apply to:
The Chief Executive Officer
Community Agribusiness Capacity Services. .
P.O. Box 460, Fort Portal,
Email: info@cabcs.org,
Website: www.cabcs.org
• Provide a hand written application
• Attach a CV detailing your technical skills, abilities and attach your recent photograph
• Photocopies of certified academic transcripts and other support documents
• A motivation letter
• Hand delivery of applications is accepted at plot 2 government avenue fort portal
• Only short listed applicants will be contacted
Application deadline: 3rd May 2011
