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| Marula Proteen Uganda Limited |
Accountant job
Location: Jobs in Uganda 2025 - 2026
Work Hours: Full-time, 08 hours per day
Salary:
UGX
No. of vacancies: 01
Deadline: 14 June 2025
Hiring Organization: Marula Proteen Uganda Limited
Job Details:
Managing and maintaining financial records, ensuring compliance with accounting principles
and regulations, and providing essential financial insights to support effective decision-making within the organisation.
Responsible for a range of financial activities, from
recording transactions and reconciling accounts to preparing financial statements, tax compliance and assisting with audits.
Job Responsibilities
❖ Recording Transactions all financial transactions related to assets and liabilities in the company’s accounting system. This includes purchases, sales, loans, repayments, and
other relevant activities.
❖ Reconciliation: Reconciling the company’s accounting records and financial statements, such as accounts receivable, accounts payable, mobile money, cash accounts, and bank accounts.
❖ Asset Tracking and Asset Identification: Identifying and categorising all the assets owned by the company. These include tangible items like buildings, machinery, and
inventory, as well as intangible assets like Research and Development, patents, trademarks, and goodwill. To assign values to these assets based on the market
value and calculate depreciation.
❖ Receiving and reviewing budgets, disbursing funds and reviewing their corresponding accountabilities and supporting documents.
❖ Receiving and reviewing requisitions from different departments and disbursing funds for the same.
❖ Reviewing daily sales receipts, credits, and petty cash being managed by the bookkeeper.
❖ Physical record keeping and safeguarding. Ensuring that all financial records and their supporting documents are properly filed in separate folders and can easily be identified transfers ie online and physical transfers.
❖ Bank accounts. Checking account balances on all the accounts in different banks, managing all funds transfers, i.e. online and physical transfers, cheque book
management, funds credits and debits, account opening and closing, following up all matters relating to the company bank accounts and reconciling all the account statements.
❖ Taxation: Ensuring that there is compliance with tax laws and regulations by calculating income taxes, managing tax credits and incentives, and preparing tax
returns. Resolving all matters arising from the revenue authority, ie Tax clearance certificates, reactivations and deactivations, registrations, payments, customs taxes,
ledger reconciliations, and constantly updating taxpayer data.
❖ Auditing: Preparing and conducting external audits to evaluate the financial processes and controls, and verify the accuracy of the financial statements. These audits
help maintain transparency and trust.
❖ Financial Reporting: Preparing financial statements, which include the balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement, which provide a comprehensive
view of the company’s financial position, performance, and cash flow.
❖ Financial reporting for different funders and projects, i.e. analysing spending and expenditure, collecting all the necessary documentation and updating different
reporting templates.
❖ Retirement fund contributions. Ensuring that all staff are registered with the retirement fund, filing their fund returns and making the corresponding payments every month.
❖ Registration and certification. Liaising with the company secretary for all support related to company registration and data updates, updating and renewing licences.
❖ Work permit processing. Liaising with the third party in renewing the work permits for the directors.
❖ Clock in/Attendance system. Adding staff to the clock in the system, training other staff on usage and coordinating software maintenance from the service providers.
❖ Fuel card management. This includes credit top-up, restricting access to the fuel cards, checking anomalies, fuel consumption reports, and statements.
❖ GPS Tracking systems for the vehicle, motorcycles and tricycles. Keeping track of the status of the tracking units, training some staff on the GPS tracking system and
coordinating the maintenance of the tracking devices with service providers.
❖ Mobile money Management, ie Mpesa, MomoPay, and Airtel Money. Ensuring that all the mobile money portals are active, keeping track of all the incoming and
outgoing cash, restricting access and reconciling accounts.
❖ Insurance. Working with the insurer, brokers to activate and deactivate members on the insurance policies. Processing insurance claims, following up with any emergencies from staff regarding medical insurance.
❖ Safeboda wallet management for staff transportation. Ensuring the business account is credited and staff accounts are also credited in time to make staff movements easy.
Regulating the usage based on the most active and inactive users.
❖ Receiving bills, contracts and MoUs from suppliers, third parties and processing their payments.
❖ Training and supervising the bookkeeper on petty cash management, sales cash, management, receipt, and document filing.
❖ Keeping track of all the expenditures in the upcountry hubs, i e Kasese, Namanve and Kangulumira.
Before you apply, please take note of the following:
- 📌 Carefully read through the full job description and requirements.
- 📌 Tailor your resume and cover letter to highlight relevant skills and experience.
- 📌 Follow the application instructions exactly as provided (e.g., subject line, attachments).
- 📌 Ensure that your documents are professionally formatted and free of errors.
- 📌 Submit your application before the stated deadline to avoid disqualification.
- 📌 Prepare for potential interviews by researching the organization in advance.
- 📌 Only apply if you meet the minimum qualifications to improve your chances.
WE WISH YOU GOOD LUCK!
Date Posted: 2025-06-03
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