Accountant Manager at Urwego Finance CBC

Job Description

To provide accounting and administrative supervision to Urwego’s finance function ensuring effective, efficient, high-quality accounting & budgeting services, timely reporting and compliance to timelines and regulations.

Responsibilities

• Coordination of journal entries processes
  • Coordinate the bookkeeping processes and ensure timeliness and accuracy of journal entries,
  • Coordinate and lead the team toward compliance with laws and regulations as well as accounting standards,
  • Ensure compliance with tax administration requirements.
• Foster accuracy of financial data
  • Put in place preventive and detective measures designed to foster accuracy of financial data,
  • Ensure daily and weekly reconciliations of general ledger accounts,
  • Ensure existence of relevant roll forward reports (fixed assets, lease, borrowings, loans) to confirm accuracy of financial data.
• Preparation of financial reports for various stakeholders
  • Prepare monthly and quarterly financial reports for internal and external use,
  • Ensure financial reports are true and fair in accordance with accounting standards and other laws and regulations,
  • Prepare periodic regulatory reports (daily, monthly, quarterly),
  • To each report, prepare narrative reports explaining key variances,
  • Ensure value for money for all transactions.
• Audit and Clearance Processes
  • Have orderly transactions to ease auditing exercises by auditors (internal & external), inspector and tax administrator,
  • Attend in a timely manner to queries from auditing and inspection processes,
  • Ensure timely closure of findings from auditing and inspection processes,
  • Assist and guide clearance of all queries raised by external as well as internal auditors.
• Internal Controls &compliance
  • Develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls,
  • Propose perceived internal controls deficiency to finance director for improvements,
  • Review and recommend changes in policies and procedures that will improve financial performance.

Essential Skills

• Be proactive and able to work under pressure,
• Be skilled at strict adherence to tight deadlines,
• Have a compliance culture to accounting standards, laws, regulations, policies and procedures,
• Readiness to perform any other duties as assigned by the supervisor,
• Mastery of accounting principles, BNR regulations, and tax laws,
• Readiness to perform any other duties as assigned by the supervisor.

Qualifications

• Should have a bachelor’s degree in accounting or other related disciplines,
• Should hold ACCA or CPA qualification,
• Having experience in auditing is an added advantage,
• Be result oriented and live Christians values of humility and customer care to mention but a few,
• Be team player and good at building and developing teams,
• A good communicator,
• Excellent skills in use of spreadsheets mainly excel.

How to Apply

Interested and eligible applicants should submit the following documents to [[email protected]](https://mucuruzi.com/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#84f1f6f3e1e3ebecf6c4f1f6f3e1e3ebe2edeae5eae7e1aae7ebe9) not later than 16th April 2026 at 5pm.

Send the documents in one folder and fill in the subject line in the position of Finance Manager.

• Motivation letter explaining your suitability for the position,
• Curriculum vitae with 2 referee names,
• Notarized Academic Documents and certificates,
• Proof of ACCA or CPA completion,
• Recommendation from your Church,
• Statement of Faith,
• Criminal Record Form,
• National ID.