Accounting Job at Uganda Insurers Association

Job Title: Accountant

Reports to the Manager, Finance and Administration.

Key Responsibilities:
1. Provide support to the Finance and Administration Manager
2. Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual financial reports
3. Accounting, book keeping and effect daily transactions, as well as prepare all transaction documentation.
4. Remit applicable tax payments including VAT, PAYE and NSSF
5. Monitor the Association's local income and projections and guide on expenditures.
6. Monitor expenditures vis- a viv approved budgets.
7. Familiar with management of Motor Third Party Stationary including stocks, sales and timely requisitions and returns submissions.
8. Effect routine audit and support supervision to ensure compliance with the Association's financial management procedures.
9. Manage bank transactions.
10. Manage petty cash and imprest system.
11. Prepare monthly cash and bank reconciliations including petty cash expenditure reports, sales reports and office consumables status reports on a monthly basis.
12. Maintain assets register and ensure proper custody
13. Purchase, store and manage office supplies and maintain records
14. Interact with other departments and business units to resolve financial related issues.
15. Recommend accounting-related process improvements.
16. Do any other clerical related official duties as may be assigned by the Manager Finance Administration or the Chief Executive Officer.


Job requirement

Required Competencies:
• Ability to prepare budgets and financial reports
• Ability to extract monthly trial balances and prepare bank reconciliations
• Ability to process transactions, maintain controls, bookkeeping routines and provide performance reports and analysis accurately in the most cost effective and timely manner.
• Monitor budgets/incomes with expenditure returns Prepare draft accounts Supervisory skills
• Advise Management on response to audit/ management letter
• High sense of integrity and trust, good interpersonal skills, good communication skills, team player, ability to work under pressure
Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Commerce or Business Administration.
• Full professional qualification of ACCA required Minimum of five (05) years of experience in a similar institution in terms of size or nature of operations.
• Must be computer literate with capacity to use one of the common computerized accounting packages (including Tally and Excel) and to use spreadsheet for financial modeling.


How to apply

How to apply:
Please submit by hand- delivery your application, detailed curriculum vitae and certified copies of academic and relevant certificates plus contact addresses of two (02) referees (email including day time telephone numbers) to:

The Chief Executive Officer
Uganda Insurers Association
Plot 24A, Acacia Avenue-Kololo
P. O. Box 8912, Kampala
Closing date: August 23 2011 at 5:00pm
Only shortlisted applicants shall be contacted