Regional Finance Officer , Uganda

Location: Kampala, Uganda
Application Closing Date: Feb 3rd, 2012

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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 based in Uganda, South Sudan and Ethiopia. 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 assist the Regional Finance Manager (RFM) in providing support to the three 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 assist the Regional Finance Manager to provide the financial monitoring and support for a number of Malaria Consortium’s multi country projects.

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

How to apply
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Please send a covering letter outlining how your skills and experience 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. If you have not been contacted within three weeks of the closing date we regret that your application has been unsuccessful.

Please continue, however, to periodically review our website for other suitable opportunities.

Thank you for your interest in Malaria Consortium.