Accountant

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Education & Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field.
Active progression toward or completion of CPA Uganda or ACCA is highly preferred.

Experience

Minimum of 2 years of hands-on accounting experience, with demonstrable exposure to multi-entity structures, professional services environments, or early-stage organisations.
Proven experience managing statutory compliance obligations — including VAT, PAYE, NSSF, and withholding tax — under the Uganda Revenue Authority framework.
Prior experience designing or implementing financial systems, workflows, or controls from scratch is a significant advantage.
Exposure to project-based accounting or the financial structures of projects or advisory businesses is an added advantage.

1. Financial Diagnostic, Controls and Digital Transition

Within the first fourteen days, undertake a comprehensive diagnostic review of the Platform's existing financial records, spreadsheets, historical transactions, invoicing records, outstanding obligations, and compliance status across both entities and present management with a prioritised remediation and controls-strengthening roadmap.
Define the finance policy, accounting procedures, and compliance requirements governing key financial and operational processes including expense approvals, petty cash management, procurement, client invoicing, receivables tracking, intercompany cost allocations, reimbursement workflows, and financial record management. The Accountant maintains the SOP repository and version control on the underlying documentation.
Establish the accounting rules, financial controls, ledger structure, and tax settings required to operate on digital banking platforms, corporate mobile money structures, and automated transaction processing, including workflow design and system implementation.

2. Tax Remediation and Statutory Compliance

Conduct an immediate comprehensive assessment of all outstanding tax, payroll, and statutory compliance obligations across both entities — including VAT, PAYE, NSSF, Withholding Tax (WHT), corporate income tax, local service tax, and any other applicable regulatory filings or payment obligations — and develop a structured remediation roadmap with clear priorities, timelines, and accountability measures.
Engage proactively with the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA), National Social Security Fund (NSSF), external auditors, and other relevant authorities or stakeholders as necessary to resolve outstanding compliance issues, regularise filings, negotiate payment arrangements where appropriate, and restore both entities to full compliance standing.
Compute, verify, and process all payroll deductions, transaction taxes, statutory contributions, and tax-related reconciliations accurately and on time each month, ensuring that all required statutory returns and payments are submitted through relevant regulatory portals ahead of prescribed legal deadlines.

3. Daily Financial Operations and Multi-Entity Ledger Management

Maintain the Platform's accounting records on a daily basis through timely and accurate posting of all invoices, vendor bills, petty cash transactions, payroll entries, expense claims, bank movements, and supporting journal entries, ensuring that no material transaction backlogs accumulate.
Manage and maintain separate but coordinated financial records for both entities, including accurate tagging, categorisation, and allocation of shared operational expenses, overheads, and project-related costs through structured intercompany allocation methodologies and ledger controls.
Reconcile bank accounts, mobile money wallets, petty cash balances, receivables, payables, and intercompany balances regularly to ensure financial accuracy, transparency, and immediate visibility of outstanding issues or anomalies.

4. Liquidity Management and Financial Controls

Conduct structured weekly reconciliations of all bank accounts, petty cash balances, mobile money wallets, and digital payment platforms, ensuring alignment between accounting records, supporting documentation, and actual cash positions, while promptly identifying and escalating any discrepancies or unusual transactions.
Monitor daily liquidity positions across both entities, maintaining clear visibility on available cash balances, committed obligations, expected inflows, and upcoming payment requirements, and proactively escalating potential liquidity constraints or irregular financial movements to management.
Support short-term cash flow planning and working capital management by maintaining updated payment schedules, receivables tracking, recurring obligations calendars, and projected operational funding requirements.

5. Management Reporting and Financial Advisory

Prepare and deliver a comprehensive monthly management reporting pack by the 10th of each month, including Profit & Loss Statements, Balance Sheets, Cash Flow Statements, budget-versus-actual variance analyses, aged receivables and payables summaries, and concise executive commentary highlighting key trends, risks, operational implications, and recommended management actions. (Visualisation and the underlying financial dashboard are — the Accountant owns the numbers.)
Conduct structured monthly financial review and budget performance sessions with leadership, proactively identifying cost overruns, revenue gaps, liquidity pressures, operational inefficiencies, and emerging financial risks, while updating projections and assumptions based on evolving operational realities and pipeline developments.
Maintain accurate accounting treatment of fixed assets, including acquisition records, depreciation schedules, disposal accounting, and periodic reconciliation against the platform asset inventory system.

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