Accounts Assistant – Amref Health Africa

VACANCY

Amref Health Africa is an international African organization founded in Kenya in 1957. Our Headquarters are in Nairobi with major programmes in Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda, and two regional hubs in Southern and Western Africa based in South Africa and Senegal Respectively.

Working with and through African communities, health systems and governments, Amref Health Africa aims to close the gap that prevents people from accessing their basic right to health. Amref Health Africa is committed to improving the health of people in Africa by partnering with and empowering communities. Our Vision is Lasting Health Change
in Africa. Amref Health in Africa is seeking to hire a qualified person to fill the following position.

Job Title: Accounts Assistant

Reports to: Program Accountant

Number of positions: 01

Work Station: Kampala

Job Summary:

The Accounts Assistant will support the Finance department by performing tasks such as maintaining clear organization’s accounting records, making payments and verifying accuracy in financial information.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Input of accurate Financial Data into Sun system.
• Allocation of Supplier and staff Accounts after monthly posting.
• Initiate staff Imprests through mobile money payments which is then forwarded for reviewing.
• Reviewing financial documents for completeness and accuracy in line with budgets.
• Retrieval of documents periodically from the Archives.
• Filing financial documents in a serialized manner;
• Support during Audit process through retrieval of sampled documents.
• Review of outstanding unreconciled items and queries in a timely manner in Sun system
• Corrective actions through Reversals for all errors found in the System through passing Journals.
• Support in cash office through receipt issuing
• making payment vouchers
• Perform any other duties assigned by the Supervisor.

Basic Qualifications, Training and Experience

• A Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Accounting Option, or related field.
• Minimum of one (1) years’ experience
• Strong Analytical skills
• Good Communication skills

HOW TO APPLY

Please send an updated CV including three work related referees and cover letter addressed to the Human Resources Business Partner, Amref Health Africa in Uganda through jobs.amrefuganda@amref.org Emails should not exceed 2MB. The closing date for submitting applications is Friday February 05, 2021. We regret that only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Amref Health Africa is committed to the principles of safeguarding at the workplace and does not tolerate any form of abuse, discrimination or harassment.