Finance Graduate Trainees at Food for the Hungry (FH)


Food for the Hungry (FH)

Finance Graduate Trainees 

Location:  Jobs in Uganda 2022 - 2023


Work Hours: Full-time, 08 hours per day

Salary: UGX

No. of vacancies: 01

Deadline: 25 July 2022

Hiring Organization: Food for the Hungry (FH)

Job Details:

Food for the Hungry (FH) a Christian based non-profit organization founded in 1971, it operates relief and development programs in 20 countries. FH's vision is to end all forms of human poverty worldwide. Food for the Hungry has been active in Uganda since 1988, working with both refugees and host communities. Our programs include food security, health and nutrition, education, and resilience initiatives.
FHU now invites applications from eligible persons for the aforementioned position at the Kampala Office.


The Finance Graduate Trainee position is an opportunity for Coaching, Learning and preparing for filling up vacant positions that may arise in line with justifiable organizational needs. The primary aim of the graduate program is to ensure mutual benefit for the trainee and the organization, the Finance Graduate Trainee will be responsible for supporting the Finance Assistant in Preparing Accounts Journals, Filing of Finance documents, reviewing Petty Cash transactions, Preparing Payment Vouchers and handling correspondences between finance and other departments. He/she will help to ensure compliance with FH Policies and Procedures.

 Roles and Responsibilities:

Financial Management

  • Ensure ALL old finance documents are arranged and scanned for Archiving before destruction.
  • Maintain the Kampala Office Petty Cash ensuring payments are made on approved requisitions.
  • Support in preparation of monthly Petty Cash and Program Advance journals for Kampala support office transactions.
  • Timely preparation of payment requisitions, ensuring all deductions have been well calculated and before payments are made.
  • Ensuring that all invoicing information in the Odoo system is well captured before forwarding to the RFOs for posting.
  • Review Petty Cash transactions and ensure that they are properly coded.
  • Review and Track Prepaid Fuel Account.
  • Ensures that all cash receipts are deposited to the Bank within 24hrs of receipt.
  • Monthly reconciliation of the WHT and the Accruals balances ensuring they are up to date.
  • Filing Withholding Tax Returns.
  • Manage the retrieving of all information (hard copies) to ensure clean audit and program statutory audits, internal organizational audits and donor driven audits.
  • Support the timely review and organizing of staff accountabilities
  • Support in scanning documents for regional/other review.

Administration

  • Ensure there is Proper Records Management especially filing of all FHU finance documents at all times and proper
    finance stores management.
  • Maintain a payment tracker for time taken for a payment to be processed.
  • Act as the finance focal point in liaison with other departments to ensure that relevant supplies, equipment and
    information required for Finance operations is in time.
  • Perform any other tasks assigned by the Regional Finance Officers
  • Ensure there is compliance with FHU finance policies and procedures

 Minimum Qualifications:

  • Candidate must have a bachelor’s degree in Finance and accounting or related discipline from a recognized university or institution.
  • Excellent computer skills in MS word, excel, PowerPoint, Access and Internet.
  • Vibrant personal relationship with Christ, understands and applies FH Foundational Principles and Vision and Mission
  • Develops and maintains good working relationships with colleagues
  • Effectively and efficiently manages all resources entrusted to him/her for work purposes
  • Maintains an attitude and behavior in accordance with FH values and principles
  • Complies to all finance, personnel, procurement and administrative policies of FH

Application procedure

IFHU is an equal opportunity employer. All suitably qualified candidates are encouraged to apply by Clearly stating the position applied for in the Subject line and submitting only electronic copies in one pdf file not more than 25MB of an application letter, a detailed CV, contact telephone numbers, copies of relevant testimonials/certificates, names/contact details of three referees, addressed to:


The Human Resources Manager, Food for the Hungry Uganda Email: recruitment-fhuganda@fh.org no later than Monday 25th July 2022 at 4:30 pm. Consider your application unsuccessful if you don’t hear from us by 31st July 2022.

FH is an equal opportunities organization and does not charge money for application.

Date Posted: 2022-07-14

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