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| Hima Cement Ltd |
Financial Accountant job
Location: Jobs in Uganda 2025 - 2026
Work Hours: Full-time, 08 hours per day
Salary:
UGX
No. of vacancies: 01
Deadline: 19 December 2025
Hiring Organization: Hima Cement Ltd
Job Details:
Background information about the job or company (e.g., role context, company overview)
At Hima Cement, our Vision is "To be the preferred provider of cement and concrete based building solutions in East Africa with a strong focus on customer experience." Hima Cement works with all actors in the building and construction industry in Uganda – manufacturing and supplying a wide range of building and construction solutions designed to meet housing and construction needs from small projects like individual home buildings to major construction and infrastructure projects. Whether supplying high-quality cement to a craftsman or helping leading architects explore and deliver creative possibilities, Hima is committed to providing solutions that fit the needs of all its clients. In order to achieve the above objectives, Hima Cement limited seeks to recruit a motivated and competent Financial Accountant as indicated below;
Responsibilities or duties
Ensuring payables, receivables, payments of staff expense and claims, develop account reconciliations, journal entries, design periodical, monthly, and quarterly inter-company reports and check that general ledger reconciliations are done and reviewed.
- Payables- Enforcing the payments policy, processing supplier invoices, generating payments and managing relationships with suppliers.
- Payments Forecasts – compiling weekly and monthly payments forecast
- Controls- Support to the corporate financial accountant in ensuring controls around the payment process are adequate and are correctly applied in practice.
- Support to the Payables controller in administering tax payments and URA refunds, replenishing the URA gross payment account, administration of VAT, excise, and withholding tax ensuring compliance thereon.
- Ensure payments of staff expense claims and processing accountability reports
- Develop account reconciliations, journal entries, data compilation and analyses ensuring accuracy and timely delivery of accounts reports including actual, reforecast, intercompany, notes etc.
- Support the period end process to ensure correct and timely posting of transactions through review of balance sheet (reconciliations/ inventories, movement, etc) ensuring appropriate action is taken where required.
- Design periodical, monthly, and quarterly intercompany reports and check that general ledger reconciliations are done and reviewed.
- Coordinate with various departments and perform variation analyses for all technical accounting problems to ensure compliance.
- Coordinate the process of external and internal audits by providing the necessary support to deliver the audit in time. Perform troubleshoot on all financial reports, complete audits, identify trends to determine improvement plans.
- Perform accounting controls by executing policies and manage assigned balance sheet accounts, perform account reconciliations and make necessary corrections.
- Analyse all proposed and existing legislation to avoid legal challenges in all financial reports
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: 2025-12-11
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