2 Accountants Job at GIZ - Career Opportunity in Uganda
Vacancy title:2 Accountants
Jobs at:
GIZ
Deadline of this Job:
8th December 2017
Duty Station:
Kampala, Uganda
Job details:
Job Title: 2 Accountants Accountant
Reports to: Head of Accounts
Location: Kampala
Responsibilities
The accountant provides support in
- Dealing with all questions arising in this area
- identifying relevant problems and issues and assisting in formulating implementation-oriented solutions
- Further developing instruments and assisting in introducing innovation and change
- Managing knowledge by disseminating and documenting know-how, experience and information
Journal bookings.
- Responsible for journal bookings in Winpaccs accounting software and producing of monthly end of period reports before the set deadlines.
- Ensuring that vouchers booked in the journals conform to O+R standards and Generally Accepted Accounting Standards.
- Giving monthly feedback to the projects on the quality of vouchers submitted and supporting them to improve on their quality of work.
- Follow up of receivables
- Verifying submitted invoices for payment.
- Verifying submitted accountabilities from staff and partners
- issuing of invoices to third parties
- Compiling of taxes for filling to URA
- performs other duties and tasks at the request of management
- In the absence of the Cashier undertake the following tasks:
- Responsible for making payments both through bank and cash
- Books all payments made in the cash book on a daily basis
- Reconciles the bank book with the bank statement on a daily basis.
- Reconciles the cash book and cash account daily
- Reports any surplus or shortfall in cash
- Reports without delay if the cash holding reaches a minimum level
Qualifications
- Bachelors in Business administration, Accounting, Commerce, Economics or related area
- Master degree and Professional certifications (ACCA, CPA, etc) are added advantage.
- At least 3 years of experience in this area
- basic knowledge of accounting software
- good working knowledge of ITC technologies (related software, phone, email, the internet) and computer applications (e.g. MS Office)
- good knowledge of English language
- Ability to work with minimum supervision
- Ability to work under pressure/tight deadlines
- Willingness to up-skill as required by the tasks to be performed — corresponding measures are agreed with management
All interested and qualified persons are strongly encouraged to apply by submitting their application and CV to the Human Resource department through recruitment-uganda@giz.de not later than 8th December 2017. Please note: Only those applications with the subject heading "Accountant" will be accepted. Application and CV should be in one document.
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