Manager – Financial Reporting

Compliance and Risk Management

• Balance sheet management – Ensure the balance sheet of the bank is fully reconciled on a monthly basis and proactively follow up on issues arising from the review.
  
• General ledger maintenance – Controlled opening of GL accounts, closure of inactive GL accounts, monitoring of GL accounts and creating of charts of accounts for new branches.
  
• Co-ordinate all external audits.
  

Liaise with external / internal auditors to implement recommendations from all audits undertaken.

• Provide guidance to the HR team in the preparation of the monthly payroll and manage the timely filing of all payroll related returns.
  

Financial Reporting

• Preparation of the statutory accounts on a semi-annual basis.
  
• Provide an oversight role on the preparation and submission of the daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly BOU returns.
  

Funds management

• Act as the primary contact in managing relationships with long-term funders.
  
• Manage the reporting to the funders in line with their respective financial covenants and submission by the set timelines.
  
• Funds administration, including the fulfilling of conditions precedent, draw downs, confirmation of interest rates, principal and interest payments, reconciliations, etc.
  
• Tracking of interest expense and funding mix.
  
• Managing the borrowing accounts (setting up, changing interest rates, part closure).
  

Staff supervision

• Effective supervision of the finance officers.
  

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• University graduate in Accounting or Finance.
  
• Fully qualified in Accounting profession with a recognized institute (ACCA, CPA, CIMA).
  
• At least eight years’ experience working in a Finance department, with four years at a senior level in a Financial institution.
  
• Industry knowledge of the Banking sector, knowledge of IFRS and Ugandan tax legislation, and Financial Institutions Act (FIA) 2004 and Amendments.
  
• Fluency in spoken/written English.
  
• Good computer literacy with excellent use MS Office.
  
• Strong attention to detail.
  
• Analytical skills.
  
• Process oriented.
  
• Good computer literacy with excellent use MS Office.
  
• Strong analytical and numeracy skills.
  
• Good communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills.
  
• Proactive self-starter able to work under own initiative.