Internal Auditor job at Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA)

Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA)

Internal Auditor job Post

Location: Jobs in Uganda 2022 - 2023

Work Hours: Full-time, 08 hours per day

Salary: UGX

No. of vacancies: 01

Deadline: 05 April 2022

Hiring Organization: Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA)

Job Details:

Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) is mandated by the National Coffee Act, 2021, to regulate, promote and oversee the coffee sub sector; to regulate all on-farm and off-farm activities in the coffee value chain; and to provide for a coffee auction system; and for other related matters.

Its Vision is 'A sustainable coffee industry with high stakeholder value for social economic transformation’ and its Mission is “To facilitate increase in quality coffee production, productivity, and consumption”. UCDA believes in and aspires for Leadership, Integrity, Teamwork, Client Focus, Accountability and Professionalism.
In order to achieve its mandate, UCDA is desirous of recruiting motivated, qualified and competent professionals to fill the following vacant positions.

Job Title: Internal Auditor (1 Position)
Directorate: Executive
Department: Audit And Compliance
Duty Station: Kampala
Reports To: Head Internal Audit And Risk

Job purpose
To perform financial, compliance and performance audits of accounting records and procedures for UCDA, to determine compliance with established systems and procedures, and make recommendations for action.

Key result areas
• Assist in the preparation of internal audit work plans and working papers for conducting audit exercises.
• Review accountabilities of funds advanced to Staff for program implementation.
• Identifies gaps in financial/accounting systems, controls and carries out systems/process audits.
• Carry out field audit inspections and ensure proper filing of audit working papers.
• Follow up on the implementation of the audit recommendations from previous audits.
• Prepare periodic audit reports and submit them to the Supervisor for review
• Provide assistance in the execution of special audits or investigations as may be required from time to time.
• Carry out any other duties as may be assigned by Management from time to time.

Minimum education
• The ideal candidate must have;
• Bachelor’s Degree (First Class or Upper Second class) in: Finance and Accounting; or B. Com (Accounting Option); or BBA (Accounting Option) from a recognized University.
• Professional qualifications in; - ACCA (at least Level II) or CPAU (At least Level II) or CIA.

• Minimum experience
• Three (3) years working experience in audit or accounting.

• Skills and competences
• Must have;
• Good interpersonal, oral and written communication skills.
• Working knowledge of Government auditing standards and procedures.
• Excellent computer skills in Microsoft office application.
• Good analytical and problem solving skills.
• High level of integrity.
• Able to work with figures and pay attention to detail.
• Able to work with minimum supervision.

Application procedure

• Follow the following link below to access the available positions:
• https://mis.ugandacoffee.go.ug/cportal/career
• To be able to apply for a particular position, you are required to first signup before applying for the vacancy. In case you had already registered, simply log in with the credentials you created
• Identify the vacancy that interests you and click “Apply for this Vacancy”
• Fill the Application Form and follow the prompts accordingly
• Upload Curriculum Vitae, Academic and Professional Certificates as a single document of maximum size 2MB, in Portable Document Format (pdf).
In case you have any further questions about the role, contact us on
ucda_hr@ugandacoffee.go.ug
Please note the deadline for applications is 5th April 2022.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.