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Finance Officer Job at Goal

About the Organization

GOAL is an international humanitarian response agency established in Ireland over 40 years ago.

Job Description

GOAL and its consortium partner, Wageningen Environmental Research (WENR) will be commencing on an anticipated 5 years resilient and inclusive economic development programme funded by the Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands in Kampala.
The objective of the programme is to build climate resilient and more productive farming systems and livelihoods, with environmentally sustainable and commercially viable practices, as such sustainably increasing productivity and income of 200,000 smallholder farming households (SHF) in Busoga and Lango regions. The project is built around four pathways and outcomes : Pathway and Outcome 1: focuses on enhanced social resilience and agency in SHF households and communities ; Pathway and Outcome 2: focuses on ensuring SHF farming systems are more sustainable, productive and resilient to shocks.; Pathway and Outcome 3: focuses on SHF actively participating and benefiting in inclusive markets; and Pathway and Outcome 4: ensures SHF have enhanced voice and influence to address market system issues.

Job Summary
The Finance Officer will be responsible for providing support to the finance manager with donor reporting requirements, following up on payments, preparing field funds transfers to field offices and processing payments. The Finance Officer is responsible for ensuring internal controls are always in place and being followed, the field office has adequate cash flows for smooth running of its' operations. and ensure adherence to the GOAL finance manual.

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Duties and Responsibilities

  • Timely updating of INSPIRE monthly cashbooks for monthly reporting.

  • Maintain safe custody of the organization cash kept at the field office.

  • Timely processing of cash payments to staff and suppliers based on approved payments requisitions

  • Monitoring outstanding floats and ensuring they are cleared as soon as activities are completed.

  • Provide support to the Finance Manager in developing accurate and realistic project and annual budgets

  • Providing support to programme manager in reviewing monthly Budget Monitoring Tools (BMT) as well as updating forecasts.

  • Provide timely, accurate, weekly and monthly financial reports to Kampala Finance Team.

  • Liaising with Finance Manager and Finance in Kampala on finance related matters.

  • Liaise with banks on any financial related matters.

  • Support the organization in ongoing risk management at the field level and to support the fulfilment of the GOAL Uganda finance plan objectives eUyZYUt B2LsYN

  • Ensure that monthly fund request is sent to Kampala by the end of the month for the coming period.

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Qualification, Experiences and Competencies

  • A university degree in BBA-Accounting, BA Finance/Accounting from a recognized institution.

  • ACCA/CPA at least Level 2

  • Minimum 2 years' INGO experience in a similar role.

Desirable criteria:

  • Strong communication skills

  • Excellent interpersonal skills

  • Proficient computer skills (MS Word and Excel)

  • Good analytical skills

  • Good team player, flexible and capable of working with a multinational country team.

How to Apply

APPLICATION FOR THIS POSITION MUST BE DONE ONLINE:
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