World Vision ,Senior Finance Manager Jobs in Uganda

Position:Senior Finance
Manager
Report
to:

Finance Director
Location: National Office,
Kampala
Purpose
of the Position:
To
provide strategic financial management leadership and support the
implementation of financial policies to ensure effective resource utilization
and safeguarding of World Ugan

da assets

Description
of main Duties and responsibilities:
Leadership
Management
  • To
    provide leadership and management of the National Office field finance
    function by planning, directing and controlling the financial resources of
    the unit in line with World Vision policies/procedures and with
    International Accounting Standards.
  • Participate
    in World Vision Uganda (WVU) Senior Management, Regional and Cluster
    meetings and represent finance division.
  • Follow
    up with regions/clusters and national staff on the implementation of new
    partnership initiatives. Budget development and coordination
  • Coordination
    of the provision of technical support in budget development process to the
    National Office, Regional Finance Officers, Operations Managers and
    clusters as per World Vision International budgeting guidelines.
  • Consolidation
    of World Vision Uganda’s annual budgets and development of Cost Allocation
    (CAL) annual operating budget.
  • Monitoring
    of expenditure against budgets and ensuring that spending is based on
    committed funds. Financial reporting and analysis
  • Review
    of Financial reports for accuracy and completeness.
  • Working
    with the Accounts Manager to prepare management expenditure and budget
    utilization analyses project/cluster/regions management to monitor
    spending
  • Coordination
    of the year-end financial reporting and carry forward processes. Finance
    risk management
  • Regular
    review of internal controls at the field to ensure that WV Uganda is
    protected from the inherent risk violations.
  • Follow
    up on implementation of internal and external audit recommendations. Cash
    and treasury Management
  • Ensuring
    target low at all times at the Cluster/ Project Offices.
  • Ensure
    submission of timely Clusters/ Projects funding requests. Manage the
    capacity building initiatives for the National Office finance teams
  • Organize
    & conduct Finance related trainings professionally for World Vision
    Uganda teams at the Region/clusters and National office level for enhanced
    finance capacity.
  • Roll
    out any new Global Centre Initiatives to the national office and
    coordinate finance related trainings.
  • Conduct
    regular review visits to the programs and provide coaching to the
    accountants when required. External and Internal Audits management
  • Coordinate
    all internal and external National Office audits on behalf of the Finance
    Director
  • Perform
    regular reviews of the audit reports and follow up on the implementation
    of audit recommendations. External and Internal divisional communications
  • Liaise
    with World Vision support offices and donors in the provision of
    information, reports and queries.
  • Communicate
    with banks and other external organization on behalf of World Vision
    Uganda
Qualifications:
Education/Knowledge/Technical
Skills and Experience
  • Holder
    of Bachelor of Business Administration or Bachelor of Commerce
  • Full
    member of CPA or ACCA, or its equivalent coupled with a minimum of 4 years
    experience in reputable organization preferably an NGO.
  • Knowledgeable
    on grant accounting and experience in donor funding e.g. USAID, DFID, UN
    etc requirements.
  • Demonstrable
    experience in strategic management, results based management in financial
    matters.
  • Computer
    literate: especially in Sun accounting systems, spreadsheets, Internet
    skills.
  • Excellent
    verbal and written communication skills, good interpersonal relation
    skills.
  • Complete
    compatibility with WV’s Mission, ethos, policies and core values.
  • A
    team player.
  • Demonstrable
    ability to work with minimum supervision
Only
Ugandan Nationals are encouraged to apply
How to apply:
Qualified
and Interested candidates should get the details of this job and how to apply
from our Careers site: http://careers.wvi.org/job-opportunities-in-uganda
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