Job Title:   Senior Accountant (2 Jobs)

Organisation: Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA)

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

About Organisation:

Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) is a semi-autonomous agency under the Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities. UWA was established in 1996 and is managed in accordance with the Wildlife Act Cap 200.

Job Summary: To maintain ledger books and post transactions in compliance with accounting principles and regulations

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Verifying completeness of payment requisitions, justification and documentation of financial transactions
• Providing data schedules to facilitate financial and management reporting
• Maintaining up to date books of accounts, ledger and bank reconciliations, financial records and assets register
• Preparing remittances/transfers schedules of funds from the wildlife fund to operations accounts/receipts for operations
• Liaising with URA and NSSF on statutory compliance
• Preparing quarterly and annual revenue and forecasts and monitoring revenue collection at the different collection centres
• Establishing mechanisms to ensure conformance in handling of revenue collection at the different collection centres
• Reviewing and monitoring customer balances ensuring that the approved credit limits are not surpassed
• Reviewing tax schedules and guiding on tax matters to ensure statutory compliance on VAT
• Preparing financial investment proposals

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• An Honors Bachelor’s Degree in either Finance and Accounting, Commerce (Accounting), or Business Administration (Accounting) from a recognized University.
• Full professional accounting qualification with membership to CPA or ACCA

OR

• Full Professional accounting qualifications with a Master degree in Business Administration (Accounting or Finance) from a recognized University

Experience

• At least three (03) years relevant experience, three (3) of which should have been as Accountant from a reputable Organization.

Competences

Technical

• Planning and Budgeting
• Financial Management
• Expenditure management and Budgetary control
• Financial reporting
• Risk management and Assurance
• Information and Communications Technology

Behavioral

• Innovative and Proactive
• Decision Making and Problem Solving
• Effective communication
• Ethics and Integrity
• Inter-personal relations

• Attach a cover letter indicating your interest in the job you choose as well as the academic documents scanned as one pdf document (the system will not accept more than one file).
• Applicants shortlisted for interviews shall be required to present originals of their academic certificates and transcripts at the time of the interviews.

Address:

The Executive Director

Uganda Wildlife Authority

Plot 7 Kira Road, Kamwokya

P.O. Box 3530

KAMPALA