Accountant – Jobs In Uganda

Lifelink Hospital is hiring an Accountant to take charge of reporting income, expenditure and productivity of the Organization. Also responsible for summarization of financial information for purposes of financial reporting, tax and financial Audits and responsible for supervision and ensuring productivity of Accounts and Finance Department staff.

REPORTING TO: Senior Accountant

DUTY STATION: Lifelink Medical Centre

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND COMPETENCIES

• Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Accounting or Commerce from a recognized University and fully qualified Chartered Accountant (CPA/ACCA/CFA) OR fully qualified Chartered Accountant (CPA/ACCA/CFA).
• Minimum of 3 years working experience as an Accountant preferable with a profit-making organization.
• Experience of working with a medical Facility is an added advantage.
• Mature Individual with a proven track record of supervising staff.
• Good knowledge of Excel,
• Experience in application of accounting standards in financial reporting
• Good Leaderships skills & Excellent Negotiation Skills
• Self-motivated, result-oriented, and able to work under minimum supervision
• Able to meet tight deadlines
• Good oral and written communication skills

SPECIFIC JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Analyze and report revenues/sales and expenses and ensure they are recorded appropriately.
• Ensure timely invoicing of all services offered to clients

• Maintain the General Ledger and transferring subsidiary ledger accounts to the General Ledger
• Prepare the Trial Balance on a monthly basis and ensuring that all ledgers are reconciled
• Maintain and balance subsidiary accounts by verifying, allocating, posting, reconciling transactions; resolve discrepancies
• Participate in the preparation of the Balance sheet/ Statement of Financial Position, Income statement and supporting schedule
• Facilitate and compiete monthly close procedures like stock taking, Cash count and reconciliations, etc
• Perform Variance analysis and preparing account reconciliation
• Oversee the preparation and review of bank reconciliation
• Participate in annual Financial and Tax Audits

• Enforce and monitor compliance with company-wide accounting policies and procedures

• Cost all services offered by Lifelink and ensure services have profitable margin
• Any other responsibility as maybe assigned by the immediate supervisor.

KEY RESULT INDICATORS

• Accurate Monthly Reports
• Up to date General Ledger
• Accounts staff productivity

• Accurate Financial information archiving system
• Up to date Asset Register

REPORTING

• Weekly revenue and expenditure report
• Monthly extended Trial Balance
• Monthly branch performance report (P&L, Cash flow, and Balance sheet)
• Monthly invoicing summary
• Review and approve all accounts staff reports before submitting to the Finance Manager.

All interested applicants should send a cover letter, CV and academic documents to the Human Resource Manager on  jobs@lifelinkug.com, only email applications will be accepted.

Please indicate the position being applied for in the subject line of your email.

NB Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Any form of canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification.