World Vision

Assistant Accountant job Post

Location: Jobs in Uganda 2024 - 2025

Work Hours: Full-time, 08 hours per day

Salary: UGX

No. of vacancies: 01

Deadline: 09 May 2024

Hiring Organization: World Vision

Job Details:

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.
Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Major Responsibilities
• Prepare and file supporting documents for all accounting transactions in compliance with WVU & WVI financial policies and guidelines and coordinate banking issues
• Provide grants and financial technical support to the response/grants program staff including on-the-job training in order to maintain accurate and reliable financial information
• Participate in the preparation of monthly bank reconciliation with the support of the Response Finance Manager
• Manage staff travel and business advances by ensuring accuracy, authenticity, completeness, and timely retirement of advances and monthly Account Allocation in SUN
• “Prepare payment vouchers (using Voucher Interface) and allocate various response and grants expenses to different cost centers/grants in compliance with WV Cost Allocation Methodologies and donor requirements and managing petty cash
• Participate in the audit processes of the projects, particularly facilitating audit team members’ easy access to the project financial records
• Code & Monitor budgets and also participate in the preparation of different project reports

Minimum education, training, and experience requirements
• Degree in Business Administration/Commerce-with accounting option.
• Excellent spoken and written command of English.
• Good communication, writing, and facilitation;
• Track record demonstrating high integrity, innovativeness, creativity, reliability, and dependability
• Excellent computer application skills in Microsoft packages (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint);
• Team player, Self-motivator, able to work with limited supervision;
• Must be a committed Christian, able to stand above denominational diversities.

Preferred Skills, Knowledge and Experience:
Degree-Accounting Option Pursuing professional course added advantage Analytical skills Computer skills (word, Excel, power point preferred) Communication skill Reporting skills