With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Key Responsibilities:

Back ground

World Vision Uganda (WVU) is a Christian relief, development and advocacy non-government organisation dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice. We currently work in 43 districts and have 48 Area Programmes implementing projects in health & nutrition, water, sanitation & hygiene (WASH), livelihoods & resilience, education and child protection. World Vision (WV) is committed to the protection of children and adult beneficiaries from exploitation and abuse and will not employ people whose background is not suitable for working with these beneficiaries. All employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of all applicable background checks, including criminal record checks where possible.

Due to expansion in scope of our programmes, we are now seeking for a qualified and passionate individual willing to share in our vision and join the team in the following role.

Position:        WFP Grant Accountant

Report to:      Food and Cash Assistance Manager

Location:       Rwamwanja

Advert Start Date:     24th July 2023

Advert End Date:       31st July 2023

Purpose of the position:

Work with the Response Food/Cash Assistance manger and Finance Manager in WFP budget preparations, monitoring grants budgets, MYPBAS commitments against approved budgets and expenditure, invoicing, prepare financial reports, prepare the audits and assist in implementation of audit recommendation, assist finance & operations staff in understanding basics of grants regulations and World Vision International Financial policies.

Key Outputs/Responsibilities.

FINANCIAL REPORTING

• Prepare monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual program financial reports to different donors, follow-ups and maintain donors’ relationships.
• # of Donor reports submitted by 18th of every month.
• # Month end report shared with management by 15th of every month.
• Build capacity of partners in providing accountabilities
• Support in preparation of other project reports and budgets
• Review & post shared costs and ineligible cost reversals to the grant through passing of JVs and CAL
• Compliance in support documentation as per donor requirement.

BUDGET MANAGEMENT.

• Review program expenditures to ensure proper documentation, coding, donor requirements and WV financial policies compliances, budget availability and initiate any necessary corrections or adjustments.
• Mange Project costs with acceptable budget variance of 5/-5
• Conduct monthly reconciliation of budget with actual expenses for corrective actions.
• Make budget adjustments/revision done as and when required by management
• Carry out period PBAS reconciliation against SO Match commitments every Month
• Produce fully coded project budget as per FLA Approval for monitoring spending
• Initiate and implement ways of ensuring value for money with CPs through budget forecasts
• Consolidate the program costed work plans into the cash flow template for uploading.

AUDIT AND INTERNAL CONTROLS

• Prepare grants for audits, review and assist in the implementation of program and financial audit recommendations with a view of providing adequate implementation plan to ensure recommendations are implemented on timely basis.
• Prepare and revise program budgets and cash flows in line with donor requirements, financial policies and procedures and advise management concerning appropriate actions to be taken in order to achieve set objectives in line with donor requirements
• Timely of retrieve all required documents for audit.
• Timely implementation of audit recommendation
• Implement the management action plans.
• Ensure compliance to statutory deductions, WHT, VAT trough reviews.
• Manage and prepare Funding gap reconciliation through reviewing PYBAs reconciliation.
• Review VI’s, requests and payments for completeness and correctness.
• Quality transaction records reconciled in Bank and Cash book and managed any errors.

4. INVOICE MANAGEMENT

• Track and Prepare invoice and support documents to WFP on a monthly basis as per the WFP requirements for compliance purposes and system integration.
• Reconcile staff advances to minimise ageing to over 30 days.
• Reconcile with HIRO and maintain an updated WFP Invoice tracking table.
• Follow up with suppliers and PSAs for supplier payments & documentations.
• For effective sub-grantee implementation to manage funding gap.

PREPARE & REVIEW FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS & DOCUMENTS

• To ascertain the transactions are within scope of project activities and comply with financial procedure’s.
• Review program expenditures to ensure proper documentation, coding, donor requirements and WV financial policies compliances, budget availability and initiate any necessary corrections or adjustments.
• Track payable and receivable accounts for vendors and program staff on a monthly basis and maintain them at low levels so as not to put program funds at risk.

CAPACITY BUILDING FOR STAFF & PARTNERS

• To be able to follow organizational systems, procedures and policies.
• Improvement in meeting deadlines for key duties and assignments given to Assistant Accountants.
• Play a supervisory role to provide guidance to Assistant accountant and PSA
• Follow up program staff to provide complete documentation.
• Review and guide program staff on accountability compliance through use of checklists.
• Guide and coach program staff on utilisation of the systems for accountability and requests.
• CEFORD is able to handle tax related transactions and prepare budget forecasts.

Qualifications: Education/Knowledge/Technical Skills and Experience.

• Degree in Business Administration/Commerce-with Accounting option
• Excellent spoken and written command of English.
• Good communication, writing, facilitation;
• Track record demonstrating high integrity, innovativeness, creativity, reliability and dependable
• Excellent computer application skills in Microsoft packages (Word, Excel and PowerPoint);
• Team player, Self-motivator, able to work with limited supervision;
• Must be a committed Christian, able to stand above denominational diversities.
• Computer literacy
• Willing to attend and participate/lead in daily devotions and weekly Chapel services.
• Perform other duties as required
• Degree-Accounting Option
• Pursuing professional course added advantage
• Analytical skills
• Computer skills (word, Excel, power point preferred)
• Communication skill
• Reporting skills

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only