Accountant
[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Production, Category: Accounting & Finance]
Jobs at:
Ranchers Finest (U) Ltd
Deadline of this Job:
Monday, July 21 2025
Duty Station:
Kampala, Uganda | Kampala | Uganda
Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, July 17 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
JOB DETAILS:
Reporting to: Chief Finance Officer
Job Purpose: The Accountant will ensure compliance, internal controls, adherence to financial policies and procedures, completeness, accuracy, timeliness and proper record keeping of transactions related to organizational revenues, receivables, payables , payroll, and tax filings.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
• Income accounting, reconciliations and follow up on receivables (Scrutiny and Verification)
• Generate and verify revenue entries for the accounting system, obtain and ensure accurate postings in the accounting system.
• Ensure and verify reconciliations between bank, and ERP system on a daily, weekly and monthly basis
Payables and Payroll
• Put in place a payments’ tracking system. Approve and monitor payments to ensure payments are done in accordance with targets for processing time.
• Reconcile all payables accounts on a monthly basis.
• Ensure payroll is processed in a timely manner, review for accuracy and submit for approval.
• Ensure PAYE returns and VAT fillings are filed in a timely manner on monthly basis
Cash and bank
• Oversee timely preparation and verification of bank reconciliation statements.
• Ensure proper controls on petty cash and reconciliation on periodic basis.
Fixed Assets
• Maintain updated Fixed Assets register and depreciation expense as per the fixed assets schedule.
• Ensure that all assets in all the units are properly tagged and insured.
Budgeting and Reporting
• Assist during budget exercise to in the completion of budget templates, follow up on timely collection of data on budgetary assumptions in liaison with the relevant departments.
• Prepare periodic financial reports (monthly/quarterly/annual)
• Timely prepare schedules for internal, interim and annual audits.
• Support timely filling of company and income tax returns as per the statutory set timelines.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance.
• CPA(U) and or ACCA certification.
• 3+ consecutive 3 years of experience as an accounting manager or senior accounting position.
• Experience in managing a small accounts team of 2-5 staff.
• Experience in preparing financial statements, reconciliations and preparing for audit.
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 36
Level of Education: bachelor degree
Job application procedure
Interested candidates should submit a detailed CV to hr@ranchersfinest.net by 21st July 2025.