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from Malaria Consortium
Closing date: 19 Mar 2013
Career categories: Finance/Accounting/Auditing
Country: Uganda
City: Kampala
Organisation:
Malaria Consortium
Theme:
Humanitarian Financing
Job years of experience: 3-5 years
Job type:
Job
Malaria Consortium is one of the world's leading
non-profit organisations dedicated to the comprehensive control of malaria and
other communicable diseases in Africa and Southeast Asia.
Malaria Consortium works with communities, government and non-government
agencies, academic institutions, and local and international organisations, to
ensure good evidence supports delivery of effective services, providing
technical support for monitoring and evaluation of programmes and activities
for evidence-based decision-making and strategic planning. The organisation works
to improve not only the health of the individual, but also the capacity of
national health systems, which helps relieve poverty and support improved
economic prosperity.
The Regional Office based in Kampala,
Uganda provides support to
the Africa country offices. The Regional
Finance team is responsible for overseeing the finances of the country
programmes including donor reporting, budget preparation and all financial and
management accounting and provides a link between the country offices and the
global organisation to ensure a consistency of approach and high quality
standards across all of Malaria Consortium. The role of the Regional Finance
Officer is to provide support to the country finance teams in the region to
help them achieve their objectives of timely and accurate reporting and sound
financial management of Malaria Consortium’s portfolio of programmes in each
country. In addition, the Regional Finance Officer will provide the financial
monitoring and support for a number of Malaria Consortium’s multi country
projects, which are based in the regional office in Kampala.
The successful candidate will:
• Qualified accountant in recognised global body
e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA
• A
bachelor’s degree from a recognised university
• Knowledge of NGO donors and their financial
reporting requirements
• Minimum
of 3 years accountancy experience, with at least a year in a managerial
position
• Working
knowledge of accounting software
•
Excellent computer skills with high proficiency in Microsoft excel
• Good
analytical and reporting skills
• High level of English, both written and spoken
•
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Willingness to travel to countries within the
region
Job ID: #560818
How to apply:
For more information please visit our website www.malariaconsortium.org where you will
have access to the full Job description. Please send a covering letter
outlining how you meet the person specification along with your CV to Human
Resources at HR.Recruitment@malariaconsortium.org Please quote the position and
country in the subject line of your application.
We appreciate your application however, only
short listed candidates will be contacted within three weeks after the closing
date.
