JOB DETAILS:
Job Purpose:
• Coordination with the MRU QSC of the monthly and yearly closing for Uganda
• Financial & Corporate Audit preparation
• Tax filing
• Area objectives and KPI’s to secure
• Budget and Quarterly Forecasts for OVH
• Manage AP and AR

Job Responsibilities:
• Oversee the completeness and accuracy of all GL accounts
• Responsible for timeous and accurate month end and year closing as per HL guidelines

• Responsible for timeous and accurate submission of OVH budgets and forecast including DND, investments, SAP RE, etc.
• Coordinate maintenance and improvement of processes together with the MRU QSC
• Responsible for achievement of all targets in BA
• Responsible for preparation of annual financial statements
• Responsible for timely Tax filing
• POE for Financial & Corporate Audit queries / requests, ensuring timeous closure of all topics
• Implement and monitor processes to avoid the recurrence of audit findings together with introducing preventive processes to reduce and eventually eliminate audit findings

• Responsible for the submission of Quarterly reports: Compliance, Risk Management, Tax Risk Assessment, Legal Contingencies

• Work with all departments to proactively implement measure to prevent revenue leakage and overcharging on the Operational side ‘

• Responsible for Area objectives and KPI’s, escalation if necessary.
• Keep abreast of developments in CS, Sales, Ops to inform Management of impact of changes as well as ensure our processes
• Ad hoc requests from Management
• Drive innovation to create meaningful reporting and to address critical topics
• AR follow up from input to reconciliation, collection process
• Disputes coordination
• Control of bad Debts
• AP follow up from input to reconciliation
• Payment process

Job Qualification:
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or a related field
• CPA – U or ACCA certification is a MUST
• Strong accounting and finance experience
• Strong knowledge on the Government policies and Tax Regulations
• Strong internal audit experience
• Proficiency in accounting software and Microsoft Excel.
• Excellent understanding of HL business
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to converse with stakeholders on many levels in the internal and external organization

Success Citeria for this Position
• Self-Starter
• Confident in ability to address topics with different stakeholders
• Work independently
• Strong with recommendations and decisions making
• Analytical
• Solution orientated
• Open minded and adaptable