Vacancy title:
Finance Manager

Jobs at:
ACLAIM Africa Limited

Deadline of this Job:
13th April 2018

Duty Station:
Kampala, Uganda

Job details:
Salary Scale: UGX 6,500,000 /=
Reports to: General Manager - Corporate Services
ACLAIM Africa Limited is a leadership and management consulting firm. They would like to recruit for a valuable client, a key player in the Hospitality Industry.

Job Summary: The Finance Manager will ensure that the organisation has a robust and excellent accounting system that enables consistently accurate, timely and reliable financial reporting to meet different stakeholder requirements.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Strategy Planning and Implementation:

• Provide input into the Strategic Planning process.
•  Design costing profile for the Lodges and advise on pricing to ensure a balance between competitiveness and profitability.
• Develop budget preparation templates, share with the different department heads and guide them through the budgeting process.
• Consolidate the different department budgets into a master budget for presentation to Management and the Board Audit Committee.
•  Relay approved budgets to Accountants for recording in the Accounting Software.
  Financial Accounting and Internal Controls:
• Support and implement internal control systems that safeguard GLS assets.
• Lead the receipt, discussion and prioritization of payment requisitions in the weekly cash flow forecasting meetings.
• Review and approve all payment vouchers with adequate supporting documents.
• Review all financial transactions recorded in the Accounting Software to ensure that they are accurately, timely and efficiently captured to enhance reliable financial reports for decision-making.
• Monitor the staff operational advance accounts on a monthly basis to ensure that they are kept at a minimum.
• Review and approve tax invoices before submission to clients.
•  Review bank reconciliation statements to ensure that errors or irregularities in the cashbooks or bank accounts are handled timely.
• Have custody of the external back-ups of financial transactions in the Accounting Software.
• Ensure that Accountants maintain up to date fixed assets register.
  Management Accounting and Reporting:
• Review monthly financial reports before being presented to management
•  Prepare and present analyzed quarterly financial reports to Board Audit Committee.
  Working capital Management:
• Prepare and monitor quarterly cash flow forecasts.
•  Take the lead in debtor follow up to ensure alignment to credit policy.
  Tax Management:
• Review monthly payroll to ensure completeness, accuracy and timeliness
• Monitor the tax tracker to ensure that Accountants are preparing, submitting and paying all relevant taxes and statutory payments (PAYE, LST, Corporate Tax, VAT and NSSF) timely.
• Review tax control accounts in Accounting Software to ensure that they are cleared.
•  Provide technical expertise to the company for tax planning.
  Audit Management:
• Review all prepared files for statutory external audit before submission to the auditors.
• Adequately prepare for external and internal audits and offer the required support during the exercise.
• Follow up and resolve issues raised from external and internal audits.
• Carry out analysis of audited financial statements and present the same to the BOD Audit Committee.
  People Management:
• Manage performance of staff supervised including goal setting, regular feedback sessions and appraisals.
• Obtain understanding and address the training needs of staff supervised.
• Ensure discipline within the staff supervised.
  General:
• Undertake reasonable requests made by company including flexible hours, location and responsibilities.
• Ensure knowledge of and compliance to all policies of the company.
• Adhere to GLS values of excellence, integrity and professionalism.

Key Performance Indicators:

• Monthly Bank Reconciliation reviewed by 10th date of the following month.
• Budget approved before the commencement of the year.
• All monthly statutory returns filed by 10th date of the following month and payment by the 14th of the following month.
• Accurate and reliable quarterly finance report submitted by the 15th date of the following month.
• Unqualified opinion in audit report by 30th October of every year.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The applicant must hold a Bachelors’ Degree in Accounting or related field
•  Full ACCA / CPA qualification
• Six years of accounting experience with minimum 3 in a Managerial position.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Experience in the hospitality sector is an added advantage.
• Proficiency in use of QuickBooks accounting software.
• Highly organized and disciplined.
• High attention to detail.
• Leader of self and others.
• Personable and good team player.
•  Committed to learning and to training others.

Job application procedure
All candidates should apply online at the link below.
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