Management Accountant Jobs Vacancy at National Forestry Authority in Uganda

Job Title: Management Accountant  (1 Position)
Reports to: Senior Management Accountant
Location : Headquarters Kampala
Salary Scale: NFA 4
Terms of Employment: 3 years contract (Renewable)

Job Summary:
 To provide high quality services to management by analysing and reporting on key financial data within NFA.
Responsibilities and tasks: Supervising the Accounts Assistants in the FSC’s, providing technical support and ensuring that proper books of accounts are maintained in each Range/plantation. Checking and reviewing monthly returns from the FSC’s to ensure that all income due is collected, properly analyzed and banked intact. Reviewing monthly accountabilities from support offices for completeness and accuracy and preparing journals for input to the financial ledger and assisting in generating detailed income and expenditure reports on a monthly basis and that all expenditure incurred are adequately supported and in line with approved activities and budgets, properly authorized and coded. Ensuring that all revenues due to the NFA are invoiced and collected in a timely manner by preparing tax invoices on a daily basis plus weekly sales report for purposes of debtor follow-up. Raising and filing of debit and credit notes as need arises. Reconciling bank and control accounts for the FSC’s. Assist in preparing supporting schedules to the accounts as required by the external auditors. Assisting the Senior Accountant in preparing cash flow forecasts on a monthly basis for cash planning purposes. Any other relevant duties as Management may from time to time assign.


Minimum Qualifications, experience and skills.
Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Commerce, Accounting, Finance or other equivalent; Partly qualified Accountant (ACCA, ACA or CPAU, CPAK). Over 2 years’ relevant experience gained from large and reputable commercial Organization.


How to Apply:
Interested candidates, who fully meet the above requirements, should submit their application letters, copies of academic and professional certificates and transcripts and curriculum vitae giving full details of applicants education, qualifications, experience, present salary and naming three referees, plus their postal, email and telephone contacts to the address below not later than 31st August 2012.
Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
The Executive Director,
Plot 10/20 Spring Road Nakawa
P.O. Box 70863, Kampala
Tel: 031 – 264035/6
041 – 230365/9
E-mail – info@nfa.org.ug

Deadline:31st Aug 2012