Position:Senior Finance
Manager
Manager
Report
to:
Finance Director
to:
Finance Director
Location: National Office,
Kampala
Kampala
Purpose
of the Position:
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
provide strategic financial management leadership and support the
implementation of financial policies to ensure effective resource utilization
and safeguarding of World Ugan
Description
of main Duties and responsibilities:
of main Duties and responsibilities:
Leadership
Management
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
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
Ugandan Nationals are encouraged 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
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