Summary
Date Posted: Monday, February 17, 2020 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Joint Aid Management (JAM) is a humanitarian relief and development organization in Africa founded in 1984 by Peter and Ann Pretorius. Aimed at fighting hunger, poverty and malnutrition in Africa, our programmes provide food security and proper nutrition, clean water sources and sanitation as well as emergency relief in the communities in which we work namely Angola, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, South Sudan, Sierra Leone and Uganda. For more than three decades, we have affected sustainable changes through these programmes, Helping Africa Help Itself has always been our defining motto and serving Africa is what defines us. JAM does not discriminate in terms of race, religion, gender or political persuasion.
Due to its expansion, JAM International Uganda program is now recruiting a full time Finance and Administration Officer to be based in its Arua office to support its finance and Admin function.
Job Title: Finance and Administration Officer
Report to: Grants and Finance Manager
Location: Arua -Uganda
JOB SUMMARY:
The Finance and Administration Officer is a full-time position and will be based in Arua, S/he will ensure adequate stewardship of agency resources and sound financial reporting in line with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, JAM policies and procedures, local laws and donor requirements. S/her major responsibilities would include but not limited to preparation of cashbook, bank & petty cash operations, cash receipts, receivables, prepayments, payables and operations. The Finance and Administration Officer reports to the Grants and Finance Manager based in Jubaa. .

Main Responsibilities:
FINANCE
• Review all payment vouchers before they are presented to Area Manager/designate for approval.
• Consolidate templates for posting of General Journal vouchers and send to Finance Officer reporting for posting to SUN on weekly basis.
• Payment and filing of all statutory obligations including PAYE and NSSF etc.
• Cash Management – verify the cash in bank, prepare cash forecast and ensure adequate cash is available for planned activities.
• Managing Advances, Prepayments, and Receivables through follow up on delinquent liquidations, Reconciliation of accounts.
• Involvement in the production of quarterly cash forecasts.
• Making payments to vendors and all service providers.
• Review all transactions to ensure that proper approvals and authorization have been done.
• Ensure project is managed and replenished in accordance to JAM cash management procedures.
• Assist the Area Manager to respond to the Country office requests.
• From time to time, perform any other duties as may be assigned by Grants and Finance Manager and/Management. Administration
• Updating of asset register for all assets at the filed location, carrying out asset count.
• Management of driver’s schedule of activities.
• Participating in field procurement meetings
• Supervising of drivers including setting objectives, development and appraisal.
• Preparation of fuel efficiency report and submitting to Operations Specialist.

Job Skills: Not Specified

Required Qualifications:
• B COM or BBA Accounting or equivalent degree and/or professional certification in accounting
• strongly preferred or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of five years’ experience in a similar position
• Proficiency in Sun System and Q & A applications strongly preferred
• Demonstrated ability to assimilate to new policies and procedures effectively
• Extremely detail oriented and organized
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (word, excel, outlook and PowerPoint)

Job Education: B COM or BBA Accounting

Job Experience: five years

Work Hours: 8

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Job application procedure
Interested candidates who meet the above requirements, should send their applications by email to pita.tahani@jamint.com addressed to the Human Resource Coordinator attaching their application letters and CV to not later than February 18, 2020. JAM is an equal opportunity employer so women are encouraged to apply.

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