Accounts Assistant
| Location | Kampala, Uganda |
| Date Posted | August 16, 2025 |
| Category | Accounting Audit Finance Management |
| Job Type | Full-time |
| Currency | UGX |
Description
Job Summary
Ensure timely and accurate recording of all financial transactions, including sales, purchases, journals, and adjusting entries in the accounting system. Perform monthly bank reconciliations, verify cash balances, and reconcile imprest accounts. Review and reconcile balance sheet accounts for accuracy, prepare weekly payments, and ensure compliance with accounting policies. Collaborate with various departments for stock verification, ensure timely filing and payment of statutory accounts, prepare payroll transactions, and match expenses against incomes. Maintain systematic filing of transaction documents, support monthly MIS preparation, analyze costs for benefit assessment, perform ageing analysis for receivables and payables, ensure 100% accuracy of financial information, facilitate audits, and assist in implementing recommendations. Perform other duties as assigned by management
- Minimum Qualification : Bachelors
- Experience Level : Entry level
- Experience Length : 1 year
Job Description/Requirements
ESTATE: Kasaku
REPORTS TO: Senior Accountant
Key Duties and Responsibilities will be to;
- Maintain and ensure timely recording of accurate data for all sales, purchases, journals and any adjusting entries as may be required in the Accounting System.
- Perform monthly bank reconciliations for all accounts held by the company in various banks and follow up on any discrepancies with the bank.
- Ensure that all cash at hand/petty cash on respective system ledger accounts match physical balances.
- Reconcile all imprest accounts held by different estates/individuals
- General monthly review and reconciliation of balance sheet accounts for accuracy and truthfulness.
- Ensure timely preparation of weekly payments, including reviewing of invoices, and other accounting documents in compliance with Accounting and Company Policies
- Liaise with various departments and the Coffee factory to ensure physical stock items on hand tally with the system quantities at any given time. (Stock Verification).
- Ensure that all statutory accounts, ie, VAT, PAYE, NSSF, etc are are filed and paid for on time, and updated regularly to ensure compliance.
- Prepare all payroll-related transactions of the month (payroll for permanent and temp staff, file PAYE and NSSF returns, and reconcile payroll GL accounts to the payroll every month.
- Match all expenses against incomes for the particular periods in which they are incurred.
- Ensure that all transaction documents are duly filed as prescribed in the financial procedures manual.
- Support in the preparation of monthly MIS.
- Prepare comparative schedules for all cost centres in their respective go-downs to enable cost benefit analysis.
- Perform ageing analysis for all accounts receivable and payable, daily, weekly, as may be required by management.
- Ensure all financial information posted in the system is 100% accurate, with zero tolerance for errors and misrepresentations.
- Facilitate periodic internal and external audits and assist in implementation of recommendations as required.
- Any other duty as might be assigned by management.