About US:
Uganda Clays Limited is Uganda’s leading manufacturer of quality clay baked construction products since 1950 and is listed on Uganda’s Securities Exchange. The head offices are located at 14Km on Entebbe Road, with a second factory situated at Kamonkoli in Eastern Uganda.

Job Summary: The Audit Officer will offer support to the internal audit function at Uganda Clays through the coordination and management of activities that will ensure the implementation of an independent and systematic approach which evaluates and improves the effectiveness of policies, procedures and standards designed to add value, improve and mitigate risk to company operations.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Coordinate and execute audit engagements on time through adequate allocation of resources to achieve the audit objective.
Keenly review and monitor the application of UCL’s policies, ensure that they are consistently applied throughout the organization and where required provide feedback to the appropriate departments to update policies to enable systematic implementation of UCL’s operations.
Regularly review financial statements to ensure that they are true, fairly presented and can be reliably used for decision making.
Prepare and submit reports that meet the engagement objective to provide management and the board assurance on risk management processes, effectiveness of internal controls and good governance practices on a timely basis, accurately and constructively.
Lead the team of Audit Assistants, in a manner that empowers them to carry out highly effective audits that add value to Uganda Clays operations.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
The applicant should hold a bachelor’s degree in Commerce, Business Administration -Accounting.
Full professional qualification i.e. ACCA, CPA or CIMA. Finalists in these professional courses will be considered.
A minimum of four years’ experience in either external or internal audit gained from a reputable organisation at middle or top management level.
Good knowledge in computerised accounting and auditing.
Broad knowledge and understanding of process flow and procedures.
Excellent interpersonal communication and report writing skills.
Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.

How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates should send their applications and updated CVs, copies of certificates/ testimonials and addresses of three (3) referees plus day-time telephone contact, present position and current remuneration to the address below:

Human Resources and Administration Manager,
Uganda Clays Limited,
P.O. Box 3188 Kampala, Uganda.

Deadline: 11th March 2016.