National Semi-Arid Resources Research Institute (NaSARRI) Jobs Vacancies

Job Title; Accounts Assistant
Salary Grade UR6.
Reports to the Senior Finance Officer

Tasks and Responsibilities

a) Receive cash or Banker's cheque, recording financial transactions, counting money to verify amounts and issuing receipts for funds received.
b) Recording and computing total funds collected with amounts of currency in register to verify balances.
c) Preparing bank deposit slips in order to ensure that all collections are promptly banked in accordance with accounting procedures.
d) Compiling, sorting and checking payment instructions to ensure calculations are correct and supported by receipts and other accounting documents before posting details of financial transaction.
e) Receiving monthly operational funds and ensuring that the cheque is endorsed by authorized person before banking.
f) Disbursing cash and writing vouchers and cheques in order to make payment against specified expenditure requisitions.
g) Preparing cheque payments and refund claims and ensuring that payments are made against verifiable accounting documents,
h) Posting data and balancing accounts as well as compiling collections, disbursements and Bank reconciliation reports
i) Performing any other duties which may be assigned to you from time to time by the Senior Finance Officer.

Minimum Qualifications and Experience
• Diploma in Accounting, Business studies or Finance with at least three years working experience in the relevant field from a reputable organization.
• Possession of professional Qualification like ACCA is an added advantage.

Employment terms for all posts.
Successful candidates will be employed on a four years contract renewable on satisfactory performance.
Candidates should not be above 45 years of age.

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Application Procedures
Interested persons with the above requirements should submit handwritten applications together with detailed curriculum vitae (C.V) giving day time telephone contacts and names and addresses of 3(three) referees as well as copies of professional certificates and transcripts to the under signed not later than Monday 27th December 2010. Applicants should write the post applied for both on the application and on top of the left hand corner of the envelope.

Applications should be addressed to;
The Director of Research,
National Semi- Arid Resources Research Institute (NaSARRI)
P.O.Box, Soroti, Serere.

NB. Only short listed candidates will be contacted.