Africa Support Accountant Job Vacancy at Malaria Consortium

Job Title:    Africa Support Accountant
Job Location:    Kampala, Uganda
Employer:    Malaria Consortium
Reports to:     Africa Finance Manager  

About  Malaria Consortium:
Malaria Consortium is the world’s leading not-for-profit organisation 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. Malaria Consortium 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.

Job Overview:
 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 Africa Support Accountant will support the AFM in supporting the region’s country finance teams to help them achieve their objectives of timely and accurate reporting and the sound financial management of Malaria Consortium’s portfolio of programmes in each country. In addition, the Africa Support Accountant 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.

Job Requirements:

• The applicant should be a fully qualified accountant in recognised professional global body e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA
• The ideal candidate must hold a good bachelor’s degree from a recognised university
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of NGO donors and their financial reporting requirements
• At least three years’ accountancy experience, with at least a year in a managerial position
• Prior experience of USAID compliance
• Good working knowledge of accounting software
• Excellent computer literacy skills with high proficiency in Microsoft excel
• Excellent 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
• Strong ability to be able to manage and prioritise multiple tasks
• Prior experience in training and developing capacity of Finance staff will be an added advantage
• Keen eye for detail

Job Duties:
 1. Financial Management and Reporting:
Technically support the AFo finance and management accountant to:

•     Prepare and maintain the regional accounts in accordance with Malaria Consortium’s Financial Policies and procedures.
•     Intuitively prepare regional budgets and forecasts, including the mapping of phasing of the multi-country programmes
•     Compile and send a monthly checklist in line with the monthly reporting timetable.

Support the Country Offices to:

•     Prepare financial donor reports in the region and in ensuring submissions to donors are completed on a timely and accurately basis.
•     Prepare the annual budget and revised forecasts on an accurate and timely basis,

 2. Financial Monitoring – Country Programmes:

•     Conduct Country visits to help ensure quality is maintained in all aspects of financial management.
•     Review the monthly checklists, with reconciliations prepared by each country office and provide summary feedback to the AFM and then CFMs.
•     Assist in coordination on the internal audit of local offices.
•     Offer a gap fill service for the financial management in country programmes as required due to staff absence from leave or resignation.
•     Provide financial accounting support to County Finance Managers and Financial Accountants in the region.

3. Financial Monitoring – Regional Budgets and Multi Country Programmes (MCP)
Assist with the:

•     Timely and accurate financial monitoring reports for the regional and MCP budgets
•     Monthly variance and burn rate analysis on a monthly for Regional and MCP budget holders
•     Timely and accurate preparation of MCP external donor financial reporting as required

4. Financial Systems Development:
Work closely with the Africa Finance Manager to improve financial systems in the region and assist in introducing change where requested as part of the global improvement to provide timely and appropriate financial information to MC’s senior management team, project managers and budget holders

5. Strategic Input:
Provide input into the strategic objectives of the finance team and how it can achieve its plans.

6. Legal, Security and Risk Management:

•     Carry out spot checks, regular and ad-hoc, in the local country offices to test the financial controls.
•     Review regional fixed asset registers
•     Monitor maintenance or regional assets in accordance with MC asset management policy. 

7. Human Resources:
Cover for the existing AFo FMA position as well as some AFM duties as needed.

Deadline Date: 28/04/2014

How to Apply:
If you desire to join one of the world’s leading not-for-profit organizations, please send a covering letter outlining how you meet the person specification along with your updated CV/ resume to
Email: afro.ops@malariaconsortium.org.
Please quote the position and country in the subject line of your application.

NB: Only short listed candidates will be contacted within three weeks after the closing date.