Finance and Administration Manager job at J. Samuel Richards and Associates

About this job

The role leads finance, accounting, administration, procurement, asset management and financial control, and is central to strengthening liquidity, reporting, compliance and cost discipline

Reports to

Role location

Uganda

Role purpose and context

Key responsibilities

• Lead accounting, monthly management reporting, Board finance packs and reconciliations.
• Prepare budgets, cash-flow forecasts, liquidity dashboards and variance analysis.
• Strengthen treasury, payment, payroll, tax and NSSF controls and coordinate external audits.
• Enforce procurement, supplier, stores, insurance, facilities and asset controls.
• Support contract pricing, profitability analysis, cost optimisation and turnaround initiatives.
• Improve accounting systems, access controls, audit trails and team performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, Business Administration or a related field.
• CPA Uganda full qualification preferred.

Experience

• At least 7 years’ relevant experience, including 3 years in a supervisory or managerial role.
• Strong experience in reporting, cash flow, budgeting, reconciliations and statutory compliance.
• Working knowledge of Ugandan tax and social security requirements.
• Experience overseeing procurement, administration, stores, assets or facilities; field-operations exposure is advantageous.
• Advanced Excel skills and strong knowledge of Tally Prime, QuickBooks or equivalent systems

Personal attributes

Terms of appointment

• Lead accounting, monthly management reporting, Board finance packs and reconciliations.
• Prepare budgets, cash-flow forecasts, liquidity dashboards and variance analysis.
• Strengthen treasury, payment, payroll, tax and NSSF controls and coordinate external audits.
• Enforce procurement, supplier, stores, insurance, facilities and asset controls.
• Support contract pricing, profitability analysis, cost optimisation and turnaround initiatives.
• Improve accounting systems, access controls, audit trails and team performance.

• Advanced Excel skills
• Strong knowledge of Tally Prime, QuickBooks or equivalent systems

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, Business Administration or a related field.
• CPA Uganda full qualification preferred.