Job Title: Accounts Assistant (Fresher Jobs)
Organisation: Finnish Refugee Council (FRC)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Project Manager
About US:
Finnish Refugee Council (FRC) is an NGO providing adult education and community development among refugees in Uganda since 1997 as an operational partner to OPM and UNHCR.
Job Summary: The Accounts Assistant will provide professional technical day-to-day accounting services, to keep a clean accounting system and procedures, and ensure timely reporting and record keeping.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Payment preparations
- Prepare service provider and field activity related payments, pre-check all bills.
- Handle petty cash payments as per approval limits and record transactions.
- Share Proof of Payments (POP) with Service Providers and ensure receipts are obtained.
- Assist on statutory payments (dues) and online payments to suppliers.
Accounting and Financial Reporting
- Follow up, receive, and track all accountability of advances that relate to different project staff and partners, and maintain, update their individual Advance Trackers.
- Ensure timely and accurate reporting.
- Follow up the utilisation of advances against Partner monthly activity budgets.
- Reconcile mobile money and cash receipts accounts by 7th of every month.
- Assist and follow up on the partners monthly and annual income and expenditure
- statements preparation to aid in the final reporting to HQ and to donor.
- Ensure that all finance related documents are stored appropriately in the FRC electronic and physical filing systems.
- Ensure that standard financial accounting procedures, plus FRC Finance Manual
- accounting principles are adhered to.
- Assist in audits – HQ or at local level.
- Carry out field verification visits to the different Project areas when relevant.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant must hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting.
- At least two years of relevant experience in a finance role.
- Flexible with good reporting, communication, interpersonal skills, assertive and able to question unclear transactions.
- Able to work under pressure with competing deadlines.
- Able to work with a multi-cultural environment within the organization.
How to Apply:
All interested and qualified should Email Application to frcugandaadmin@refugeecouncil.fi
Application and CVs should be ONE PDF document and a maximum of 5 pages
Include in your application letter:
- Gross salary request,
- Contact details (email and telephone) of 3 professional reference persons.
Note:
- Please quote the position you apply for in the subject line.
- Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
- Do not email copies of certificates.
Deadline: 31st October 2022