Accountant Jobs – Marula Proteen Limited

Job Title:  Accountant

Organisation: Marula Proteen Limited

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

Reports to: CEO/Director

About Organisation:

Marula Proteen Limited is an innovative enterprise based in Uganda, specializing in the breeding of Black Solider Flies (BSF). Our commitment lies in sustainable farming, waste management, and youth empowerment, through the production and distribution of BSF eggs and larvae. With a reach extending beyond Uganda to Rwanda and Kenya, we strive to transform the agricultural sector through sustainable practices.

Job Summary: Managing and maintaining financial records, ensuring compliance with accounting principles and regulations, and providing essential financial insights to support effective decision-making within the organisation. Responsible for a range of financial activities, from recording transactions and reconciling accounts to preparing financial statements, tax compliance and assisting with audits.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Recording Transactions all financial transactions related to assets and liabilities in the company’s accounting system. This includes purchases, sales, loans, repayments, and other relevant activities.
• Reconciliation: Reconciling the company’s accounting records and financial statements, such as accounts receivable, accounts payable, mobile money, cash accounts, and bank accounts.
• Asset Tracking and Asset Identification: Identifying and categorising all the assets owned by the company. These include tangible items like buildings, machinery, an inventory, as well as intangible assets like Research and Development, patents, trademarks, and goodwill. To assign values to these assets based on the market value and calculate depreciation.
• Receiving and reviewing budgets, disbursing funds and reviewing their corresponding accountabilities and supporting documents.
• Receiving and reviewing requisitions from different departments and disbursing funds for the same.
• Reviewing daily sales receipts, credits, and petty cash being managed by the bookkeeper.
• Physical record keeping and safeguarding. Ensuring that all financial records and their supporting documents are properly filed in separate folders and can easily be identified transfers ie online and physical transfers.
• Bank accounts. Checking account balances on all the accounts in different banks, managing all funds transfers, i.e. online and physical transfers, cheque book management, funds credits and debits, account opening and closing, following up all matters relating to the company bank accounts and reconciling all the account statements.
• Taxation: Ensuring that there is compliance with tax laws and regulations by calculating income taxes, managing tax credits and incentives, and preparing tax returns. Resolving all matters arising from the revenue authority, ie Tax clearance certificates, reactivations and deactivations, registrations, payments, customs taxes, ledger reconciliations, and constantly updating taxpayer data.
• Auditing: Preparing and conducting external audits to evaluate the financial processes and controls, and verify the accuracy of the financial statements. These audits help maintain transparency and trust.
• Financial Reporting: Preparing financial statements, which include the balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement, which provide a comprehensive view of the company’s financial position, performance, and cash flow.
• Financial reporting for different funders and projects, i.e. analysing spending and expenditure, collecting all the necessary documentation and updating different reporting templates.
• Retirement fund contributions. Ensuring that all staff are registered with the retirement fund, filing their fund returns and making the corresponding payments every month.
• Registration and certification. Liaising with the company secretary for all support related to company registration and data updates, updating and renewing licences.
• Work permit processing. Liaising with the third party in renewing the work permits for the directors.
• Clock in/Attendance system. Adding staff to the clock in the system, training other staff on usage and coordinating software maintenance from the service providers.
• Fuel card management. This includes credit top-up, restricting access to the fuel cards, checking anomalies, fuel consumption reports, and statements.
• GPS Tracking systems for the vehicle, motorcycles and tricycles. Keeping track of the status of the tracking units, training some staff on the GPS tracking system and coordinating the maintenance of the tracking devices with service providers.
• Mobile money Management, ie Mpesa, MomoPay, and Airtel Money. Ensuring that all the mobile money portals are active, keeping track of all the incoming and outgoing cash, restricting access and reconciling accounts.
• Insurance. Working with the insurer, brokers to activate and deactivate members on the insurance policies. Processing insurance claims, following up with any emergencies from staff regarding medical insurance.
• Safeboda wallet management for staff transportation. Ensuring the business account is credited and staff accounts are also credited in time to make staff movements easy.
• Regulating the usage based on the most active and inactive users.
• Receiving bills, contracts and MoUs from suppliers, third parties and processing their payments.
• Training and supervising the bookkeeper on petty cash management, sales cash, management, receipt, and document filing.
• Keeping track of all the expenditures in the upcountry hubs, i e Kasese, Namanve and Kangulumira.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, and CPA Certification
• Proven experience in accounting or financial management.
• Proficiency in accounting software and financial analysis tools.
• Strong understanding of accounting principles and regulations.
• Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills.
• Analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Effective communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• High ethical standards and integrity

How to Apply:

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Deadline: 13th June 2025