ACTED has been active in Uganda since May 2007, both in the northern region and Karamoja. In the North, ACTED supports the early recovery process with a specific focus on the needs of returning populations displaced by years of conflict. It also expands access, retention, equity and quality of primary education. In Karamoja, the focus is enhanced food security and resilience to disasters, especially droughts, as well as improving the primary education sector.
ACTED focuses its intervention on strengthening livelihoods through improved resource management, conflict mitigation and capacity building. In Northern Uganda, as internally displaced persons (IDPs) have returned home and gained access to land, ACTED is working with farmers on infrastructure and capacity development to rebuild agricultural livelihoods. In the Karamoja/Pokot area, ACTED responds to severe food insecurity caused by the drought in the Horn of Africa, providing support to agro-pastoral communities to increase their purchasing power and protect their assets, reducing vulnerability to natural disasters. As part of its integrated cross-border strategy between Uganda and Kenya, ACTED maintains its community-driven disaster risk reduction (DRR) focus and promotes conflict mitigation to ensure peaceful and sustainable access to shared resources.
In 2013, ACTED maintains a strong focus on this approach and looks at extending it further along the border with Kenya. ACTED continues working with community-level structures and initiatives such as the APFS, the CDMCs or the DEWS to continue building the communities’ resilience to disasters.

III. Position Profile
Under the authority of the Country Director and Finance Director in HQ, the Country Finance Manager (CFM) will be responsible for ACTED accounting and financial management in-country. The CFM ensures that national legislation is adhered to, and that the country specific standards are applied in ensuring efficient use of resources.

Responsibilities:
1. Accounting and Financial Management
• Accountancy:
Supervise accountancy procedures: filing of documents, allocation of expenses, vouchers registration, balance checking, etc.;
Verify and compile monthly accounts from each base;
Communicate accounts on a monthly basis to HQ, respecting SAGA procedures and deadlines;
Manage the presentation, circulation, filing and archiving of accounting and financial documents in conformity with FLAT procedures;
• Treasury:
Open/close bank accounts on the authority of the General Delegate;
Oversee the management of bank accounts: follow transfers, check balances, check authorised visas;
Supervise the management of safes and cash: available amount, balance checks, security instructions;
Assess monthly cash-flow needs for projects and bases and communicate cash requests to the HQ;
Manage money transfers, bases cash-supply and amounts in circulation, whilst defining payment procedures (bank transfer, cheque, cash etc.);
• Commitment of expenditure:
Set up and formalise procedures for the commitment of expendiure, conform to ACTED procurement guidelines: collect visas of authorised staff members, set-up commitment ceiling in local currencies, define methods and timescales for payment according to local practices;
Ensure that procedures are adhered to in terms of contracts and payments;
Ensure that proofs of purchase are valid (contracts, orders, bills, inoices, delivery receipts etc);

2. Budget Management
• Ensure budget follow-up:
Develop tables necessary for financial monitoring and for budget follow up within the mission;
Analyse gaps between planned budgets and actual expenses;
Anticipate financial risks;
Calculate and supervise the monthly cost of each vehicle (fuel consumption, repairs) in coordination with Country Logistician;
Calcultate monthly communication costs of each base (phone, e-mail, Internet), in coordination with Country Logistician;
• Develop project budgets:
Develop budgets for project proposals according to project needs and Donor constraints;
Draft financial reports (mid-term and final) respecting contractual deadlines;
Guarantee the respect of Donor procedures for each financial contract.

3. Department Follow-up
• Team leadership:
Update the organigramme and ToRs of the finance department according to the mission development;
Oversee the team and undertake appraisals of directly supervised colleagues;
Ensure training and capacity building for finance team members in order to increase the level of technical ability and skills within the department;
• Internal Procedures and Information Flows;
Develop relevant management procedures within the team;
Improve information flows within the department and with other departments and projects

IV. Qualifications:
• Masters degree minimum in Finance or related area;
• 3+ years of solid experience in financial management and monitoring systems, preferably of large development programs, possibly complemented by academic expertise;
• Excellent financial and analytical skills;
• Excellent communication and drafting skills for effective reporting on programme financial performance;
• Ability to manage a financial/monitoring team and demonstrate leadership;
• Ability to monitor and evaluate financial and monitoring skills of communities through capacity-building efforts;
• Ability to operate in a cross-cultural environment requiring flexibility;
• Familiarity with the aid system, and understanding of donor and governmental requirements;
• Prior knowledge of the region an asset;
• Fluency in English required – ability to communicate in local languages an asset;
• Ability to operate Microsoft Word, Excel and Project Management software

V. Conditions:
• Salary defined by the ACTED salary grid; educational level, expertise, hardship, security, and performance are considered for pay bonus
• Additional monthly living allowance
• Free food and lodging provided at the organisation’s guesthouse/or housing allowance (depending on contract length and country of assignment)
• Transportation costs covered, including additional return ticket + luggage allowance
• Provision of medical, life, and repatriation insurance + retirement package

HOW TO APPLY:
Please send, in English, your cover letter, CV, and three references tojobs@acted.org
Ref : CFM/UGA/SA
ACTED
Att: Human Resources Department
33, rue Godot de Mauroy
75009 Paris
FRANCE
Fax. + 33 (0) 1 42 65 33 46