Accountant

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Provides guidance to faculty, administrators, and other staff on proposal development and grant applications for external support opportunities.
2. Monitors/ Reviews research proposals before submission to Federal, and other agencies to ensure compliance with University and agency policies and procedures.
3. Analysis of fund balances to determine burn rate calculations for progress reporting, carry-over requests, projections, and close-outs of research/grant awards.
4. Maintain financial records in compliance with statutory requirements and agreement
5. Develop and review policies to enhance performance and strengthen internal control systems
6. Support the Head of Finance and Strategic management to provide documents and information to external auditors to carry out annual and specific audit
7. Assess any possible risk and develop mitigation measures to support research administration.
8. Act as a team member, by organizing meetings and effectively coordinating activities with collaborators.
9. Performs and assists with reconciling award activity of expenses to budget in order to avoid cost over-runs per Sponsor and University guidelines.
10. Performs and assists with the preparation and review of financial reports or invoices in collaboration with the Finance and Strategic Management.
11. Performs and assists with the monitoring of the awards revenues to the project accounts.
12. Reviews and ensures the awards Budget and other data elements in the finance system accurately reflect the terms of the award.
13. Assists with resolving issues, working with faculty, sponsored program administrators, university administration and internal and external constituents (e.g., Federal/State agency program officers, departmental chairs, etc.) for grant and non-grant (restricted) accounts.
14. Assists in coordinating activities and disseminating information to all grant collaborators, including annual offsite and onsite meetings for internal/external faculty and staff.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• A First Class degree from a chartered University in either
  Commerce, Accounting, Finance or Auditing.
• Evidence of Membership with the Institute of Certified Public
• Accountants of Uganda.
• A minimum of three(3) year’s (thirty-six months) qualification experience.
• Extensive Computer knowledge in Microsoft Excel, Vision Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SUN Accounting and Access is required