Job Title: Finance Assistant
Organization: Kilimo Trust
Location: Kampala
Roles and responsibilities:
• Review all financial commitments and payments requests to ensure compliance with Kilimo Trust Policies and procedures.
• Prepare weekly cashflow forecasts to ensure liquidity of the organization is maintained.
• Prepare investment analysis to aid in Investment decisions.
• Support the budget preparation process by preparing information that feeds into the organization and project budgets.
• Process all financial transactions in Odoo to enable accurate financial reporting and monitoring.
• Prepare timely and accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual financial and management reports.
• Maintain and regularly update and reconcile the general ledger accounts e.g accounts payables, accounts receivables, and payroll.
• Perform physical verification of Assets at least once per year to ensure that all assets are accurately recorded.
• Maintain and manage archiving of financial documents to safeguard financial records and audit trails.
• Prepare monthly payroll and all the related statutory returns.
• Reconciliation of KT all bank accounts and petty cash management
• Prepare Project timely financial reports as per donor agreements and reconcile the same to the designated bank accounts.
• Review of Grantees Reports and give timely feedback.
• Ensure that payments are dully acknowledged by all beneficiaries.
• Maintain the travel advance monitoring register to ensure advances are accounted for as per the set guidelines.
• Liaising with Internal and external Auditors as well as donor reviewers.
• Serve as bank agent on all the bank accounts of the Trust.
Minimum Qualifications:
• The applicant must hold a Degree in Statistics, Economics, Education, or any data management-related field.
• A minimum of two years’ experience in collecting data using Kobo collect application.
• Excellent communication skills
• Knowledge of online and offline, open-source data collection tools and approaches and or database environment and/or project management software.
• Relevant experience working in education programming and international development is an added advantage.
• Excellent communication and inter-personal skills.
• Skills in report writing.
• Familiar with education institutions setting and willing to serve in such settings.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Good records management skills
• Ability to work independently and under pressure.
How To Apply:
If you are the right candidate, please send your application letter with the following:
- An up-to-date CV, highlighting relevant skills and experience (presented in relation to each of the Responsibilities and each of the experience areas listed above).
- The names and contacts of three referees and a daytime contact telephone number of each of them.
- Copies of Academic Certificate and Transcripts for O’ level, A’ level – where applicable, UnderGraduate, Post-Graduate and Professional qualifications
The names and contacts of your immediate supervisor(s) in the current job and two of your immediate previous jobs. - Your daytime contact telephone number; and
- A statement and proof of the current remuneration package
Please submit your application documents electronically to recruitment@kilimotrust.org
Application Deadline: 24th May 2023
NOTE:
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