OpenFinanceUganda
Accounts Officer / Accountant
Support disciplined financial records, invoicing, receivables, payables, reconciliations, and management reporting.
Role details
Type: Full time
Reports to: COO / Finance lead
Posted: 2026-07-21
Closes: 2026-12-31
Apply for this roleMission
- Keep Imani's launch finances accurate, timely, and ready for responsible management decisions.
First 30 / 90 / 180 Days
30 days
- Review invoice, receipt, payment, and reconciliation workflows.
- Set up clean finance trackers and document-control routines.
90 days
- Improve receivables, payables, and monthly reporting cadence.
- Coordinate with sales and operations on order-to-cash records.
180 days
- Support audit-ready reporting and scalable finance controls.
- Provide reliable management views of cash, receivables, and expenses.
Responsibilities
- Manage invoices, receipts, reconciliations, payables, and receivables support.
- Maintain organized finance records and document trails.
- Prepare regular finance summaries for management.
- Coordinate with sales operations on customer and order records.
Required Experience
- Accounting, bookkeeping, finance operations, or audit-support experience.
- Strong spreadsheet and reconciliation skills.
- High integrity and document discipline.
Preferred Background
- FMCG, distribution, retail, or startup finance experience.
- Uganda tax and statutory familiarity, if supported by documented experience.
- Professional accounting qualification in progress or completed.
KPIs
- Reconciliation timeliness
- Receivables visibility
- Document completeness
- Management-report accuracy
Case Exercise
- Shortlisted candidates may complete a reconciliation and controls exercise.
- Compensation is to be confirmed with shortlisted candidates.
- Apply through the website form and include finance systems or reporting examples where appropriate.