Post 1: Senior Accountant
The Accountant will be reporting to the Chief Accountant. The Accountant is responsible for grants management, disbursement, accountability and’ timely/accurate preparation and submission of grants financial reports. He/she will ensure that all staffs salary payments are effectively and timely carried out as well as ensuring that all wage costs are appropriately allocated.
Main Duties
• Developing mechanisms for grant disbursement, accountability and reporting in line with donors / funders’: requirements
• Guiding the project staff and other finance staff in grant management and reporting 10 enable effective and timely program implementation
• Approving all grant disbursements and review all grant accountability
• Tracking grant income and expenditure in line with grant budgets and advices projects staff on progress and areas of improvement
• Analysing and reviewing grant general ledger transactions and ensuring timely and accurate reporting of grants to the donors / flinders
• Ensuring accurate Bank Reconciliation of all grant accounts
• Overseeing grant accounting and accountability at the JCRC upcountry sites
• Reviewing Cooperative Agreements and Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) for each sub-grant and ensuring all agreements are complied with.
• Ensuring all the documentation for the specific grant(s) are in order, posting to the ledger are done accurately and in time, ensures that the grant accountabilities and reporting are done in accordance .with the Memorandum of Understanding.
• Ensuring that all salary payments are effectively and timely carried out as well as ensuring that all wage costs are appropriately allocated and apportioned to different projects /programmes and ensuring that all statutory obligations and other deductions are done,
• Ensuring JCRC payments and stores records are properly documented and that all invoices to partners / clients are produced accurately and on lime.
Job requirement
Qualifications & Experience
A degree in Accounting or Business Administration and completed a professional accounting registration by the accounting bodies such as ACCA, CJMA and CPA,
A 5 year progressive and professional accounting experience of which 2 years should have been in Civil Society Fund (CSF) and other donor funded projects, grant and fund accounting, payroll administration, financial reporting, processing payments and invoice management is essential.
How to apply
Applications and supporting documents including copies of academic qualifications and curriculum vitae (CV) indicating names plus telephone contact s of three professional referees should either be posted to: Manager; Human Resource & Development, Joint Clinical Research Centre (JCRC), Plot 893 Ring Road, Butikiro House -Mengo, P.O. Bo* 10005, Kampala
The closing date for applications is 5:00pm on Tuesday 24th May 2011.
Only short listed candidates only will be contacted.
