Accounting Finance Jobs at Old Mutual and other companies

Job Description
To maintain an effective and efficient premium and other bank transactions allocation function to enable the organization meet its customers’ expectations at optimal cost.
• To allocate premium transactions onto the respective customer accounts/policies.
• To review suspense reports and engage bank relationship officers to share transaction details for proper allocation.
• To make allocation of payments (Claims and commission) to the respective contract IDs for reporting purposes.
• Upload bank statements for all Thought Express banks into the system daily and ensure completeness of all transactions.
• Perform daily bank statement allocations for all payments received and payments made.
• Allocate and upload the check off response files received from employers onto specific customer policies.
• Allocate and upload direct debit rejection files onto specific customer policies daily.
• Reconcile pay points control account position on a daily basis.
• Receive and review customer queries in line with receipting and policy reconciliation for timely resolution.
• Monitor the unallocated monies control ledger and engage banks where extra transaction information is required daily.
• Reconcile thought express treasury control accounts weekly to ensure the available balances are fully supported.
• Coordinate with the bancassurance officers to ensure that all premiums received have been fully allocated.

Skills
Account Reconciliations, Bancassurance, Banking Relationships, Bank Statements, Control Accounts, Customer Accounts, Customer Queries, Direct Debits, Management Reporting, Payments, Reconciliations
Education
Honours Degree (Hons): Business Administration (Required)

Accounts Reconciliation Assistant -1 UAPOM Life Uganda
Job Description
To maintain an effective and efficient premium and other bank transactions allocation function to enable the organization meet its customers’ expectations at optimal cost
• To allocate premium transactions onto the respective customer accounts/policies.
• To review suspense reports and engage bank relationship officers to share transaction details for proper allocation.
• To make allocation of payments (Claims and commission) to the respective contract IDs for reporting purposes.
• Upload bank statements for all Thought Express banks into the system daily and ensure completeness of all transactions.
• Perform daily bank statement allocations for all payments received and payments made.
• Allocate and upload the check off response files received from employers onto specific customer policies.
• Allocate and upload direct debit rejection files onto specific customer policies daily.
• Reconcile pay points control account position on a daily basis.
• Receive and review customer queries in line with receipting and policy reconciliation for timely resolution.
• Monitor the unallocated monies control ledger and engage banks where extra transaction information is required daily.
• Reconcile thought express treasury control accounts weekly to ensure the available balances are fully supported.
• Coordinate with the bancassurance officers to ensure that all premiums received have been fully allocated.

Skills
Account Reconciliations, Bancassurance, Banking Relationships, Bank Statements, Control Accounts, Customer Accounts, Customer Queries, Direct Debits, Management Reporting, Payments, Reconciliations
Education
Honours Degree (Hons): Business Administration (Required)

Finance Manager - Kampala (Internal Candidates)
Job Category: Finance & Compliance
Requisition Number: FINAN002723

Essential job functions:
Supporting programs to ensure the most efficient, effective, and compliant delivery of programs
1. Provides financial review for advances, purchase requests, quotation analysis, purchase orders, contracts, expense reports, payment requests, and other field transactions within his/her limit per the AAM, chart of accounts, donor regs, MC policies, country laws;
2. Ensures financial reviews and payments are performed timeously by the finance team;
3. Ensures finance inductions to all new staff are performed timeously;
4. Sends BVAs to PMs, ensures forecasting tools are updated for actuals on a monthly basis and shared with PMs, and ensures quarterly forecasts are in place for all programs;
5. Holds regular check-ins with PMs, ensures finance focal points perform monthly meetings, and ensures finance deadlines calendar is updated;
6. Reviews programmatic SOPs and supports high-intensity program activities;
7. Ensures that he/she travels to field locations regularly and ensures that Coordinators and Senior Finance Officers travel to the field regularly.
Timely and accurate financial reporting to HQ, donors, and GoU
1. Coordinates and prepares weekly and monthly cash requirements for all offices, submits and makes sure sufficient cash is available in all offices and monitors its use. Make sure also there is no excess cash.
2. Ensures all cash, bank and advances are reconciled with cash counts, bank statements, and outstanding advances and ledger. Ensures all transactions are properly entered into the accounting software/field connection/Navigator, review, and ensure weekly posting is done.
3. Coordination of the financial reporting processes, ensuring that all data is accurate, complete, and entered within set deadlines, including monthly closing procedures.
4. Reviews journals, in line with the Approval Authority Matrix;
5. Reviews monthly balance sheet reconciliations and core funds report;
6. Reviews national staff payroll. Reviews and imports payroll for posting and ensures severances and pensions are updated and reconciled with the ledger and individual staff;
7. Review of Terminal Benefits for staff exiting the organization;
8. Treasury Management; participating in meetings on performance management, handling FX Conversions;
9. Calculation of severance adjustment quarterly.
10. Reviews monthly and annual financial report packages for submission to HQ;
11. Ensures monthly NSSF, income tax, withholding tax, VAT and other taxes are withheld, paid on time and reported accordingly;
12. Filing of returns with URA and NSSF as per applicable country laws;
13. Preparation of Mercy Corps Uganda annual accounts and financial statements;
14. Manages and facilitates internal and external audits and ensures all finance archives uptodate;
15. Reviews monthly taxes for expatriate employees;
16. Ensures compliance with donor and Mercy Corps regulations.
Enhancing finance team structure, capacity, and efficiency
1. Directly supervises Finance & Accounting Coordinators
2. Supports FD with the recruitment of all members of the finance team;
3. Ensures all finance teams have clear PDs, work plans, and development plans;
4. Plans backstopping and exchanges of the team between locations to ensure coverage;
5. Provides technical support, coaching, and training to Finance, Ops, HR, Program staff and supports FD to roll out training for the finance team (including People with Possibilities);
6. Manages quarterly meetings with the finance team;
7. Supports growth of finance team into STA positions;
Building processes and tools
1. Ensures finance drive is complete and finance document trackers are in use;
2. Ensures commitments trackers are in use;
3. Updates country master budget quarterly and supports FD with proposal budgets and various country budgets/coverage tools;
4. Ensures AAM and signature specimens are updated regularly as needed.
Enhancing working with support departments
1. Works with operations teams on key areas such as MSAs, assets, etc;
2. Development of tools, guides, SOPs to support other departments to be compliant and efficient.
Security
1. Ensures compliance with security procedures and policies as determined by country leadership;
2. Proactively ensures that team members operate in a secure environment and are aware of policies.
Other
1. Any other tasks to be assigned by the supervisor.
Organizational Learning
As part of our commitment to organizational learning and in support of our understanding that learning organizations are more effective, efficient, and relevant to the communities they serve, we expect all team members to commit 5% of their time to learning activities that benefit Mercy Corps as well as themselves.
Accountability to Program Participants
Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our beneficiaries and to international standards guiding international relief and development work, while actively engaging beneficiary communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY: Senior Finance Officers, Finance Coordinators under her/his supervision.
Reports Directly To: Finance Director
Works Directly With: CoPs, DoP, Heads of Programs, Heads of Support (HRD, OD), all finance team/staff, and other MC staff.
Ethics and Integrity
All Mercy Corps staff members are expected to behave ethically and demonstrate highest integrity in their professional and personal life. Mercy Corps has zero tolerance to any form of fraud, corruption, abuse, harassment or exploitation. Any breach of our policies or misconduct will lead to disciplinary action or may lead to termination.

Knowledge and Experience:
• Degree in Accounting or Finance required;
• Professional qualification in either CPA or ACCA preferred, or Masters' degree preferred;
• 6 years’ experience in grants and financial management and accounting and 2 year’s supervisory experience;
• Good understanding of USAID, FCDO, SIDA, AFD, ECHO guidelines is a must;
• Strong management Skills, Technical & Supervisory Skills and experience required;
• Strong accounting skills and experience, including management of the general ledger, journal entries, payroll, payables and balance sheet;
• Adequate understanding of donor rules and regulations is required;
• International NGO/PVO experience required;
• Demonstrated experience and skill with financial reports preparation and presentation and proven ability to translate technical financial data into informative reports;
• Advanced computer skills in MS Office programs, particularly Excel and accounting software experience;
• Navigator accounting software experience an advantage;
• Excellent oral and written English skills;
• Willing to travel regularly to Mercy Corps and subgrantee's field offices and project sites.
Success factors:
An ability to support programmatic objectives with timely and meaningful financial information is essential. A demonstrated ability to multitask, meet deadlines and process information in support of changing program activities is necessary. An impeccable professional standard of finance and procurement ethics as well as the willingness and ability to enforce compliance with Mercy Corps and donor policies and procedures is essential.
Mercy Corps team members represent the agency both during and outside work hours. Team members are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner and respect local laws, customs and MC's policies, procedures, and values at all times and in all locations.
Close Date: 27th August 2022
Qualifications
Behaviors
Required
Innovative: Consistently introduces new ideas and demonstrates original thinking
Dedicated: Devoted to a task or purpose with loyalty or integrity
Leader: Inspires teammates to follow them
Education
Required
Bachelors or better.
Experience
Required
6-8 years: 6 years experience in grants and financial management and accounting and 2 year’s supervisory experience;

Job Title Key Accounts Executives
Job Category Commercial - Sales and Marketing
Company Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (Uganda)
Job Type Permanent
Location - Country Uganda
Location - Province Not Applicable
Location - Town / City Kampala
Job Description Coca-Cola Beverages Africa [CCBA] is the largest African Coca-Cola Bottler, accounting for 40% of all Coca-Cola volumes on the continent. Coca-Cola Beverages Uganda Limited is a subsidiary of CCBA.
We are currently seeking to recruit Key Accounts Executives based in Kampala.
Asa Key Accounts Executive, you will report directly to the Key Accounts Manager
Key Purpose Statement
To deliver Volume and Revenue growth, grow customer base, and manage accounts through the Key Accounts channel.

Key Duties & Responsibilities
Administration
• Daily trade feedback/reports on customers/outlets
• Key stakeholder engagements; Finance, Logistics, CDE, planning, K&I
• Customer/stakeholders' performance reviews
CRM
• Holding stakeholder business meetings
• Resolve daily customer quarries & complaints and identify opportunities
• Execute Customer reward and recognition
Accounts Receivables
• Review customer credit status
• Payment collections and Banking
Execution
• Ensure full brand portfolio availability in all outlets
• Merchandising as per recommended guidelines
• Price compliance on all SKUs (RRP)
Asset management
• Coolers in key accounts
• Merchandise according to planogram
• Cooler master data alignment

Skills, Experience & Education Qualifications
• Bachelor’s Degree in marketing or any Business Management related qualification

Experience
• Minimum 2 years previous sales experience or equivalent FMCG experience

Competencies
• Product & Industry Knowledge
• Competitor insights
• Customer-focused & Service Orientation
• Excellent interpersonal skills / good motivational skills
• Good negotiation skills when dealing with customers
• Merchandising
• Revenue Management
• Developing great relationships
• Being an ambassador of our company and brands