Programme Finance Officer
VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
Programme Finance Officer
Opening date: Tuesday 13th November 2025; Closing date: Friday 27th November 2025
Share An Opportunity (SAO) Uganda is a Christian child-centred Non-government organization. It envisions a holistically developed child within the community. The organization seeks to recruit a dynamic and self-motivated individual for the position of Programme Finance Officer. The ideal candidate will be based in Kampala and should have worked in a similar position for at least three years.
The Programme Finance Officer will be responsible for ensuring that finances are utilized in accordance with laid-down financial policies and procedures, ensuring timely budget preparations, monitoring its performance, and acting as the technical leader on all budget-related issues.
Job Summary: The Programme Finance Officer is to ensure proper utilization, accountability, reconciliation, and reporting of funds in accordance with laid-down finance policies and procedures, donor guidelines, national laws, and best practices.
Reporting: Finance Manager
Duty station: Kampala
Contract type: Fixed-term contract – 1 year
Proposed start of contract: 5th January 2026
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Cash Management and Revenue
- Management of the organisation’s petty cash in line with the established procedures
- Daily and monthly petty cash reconciliations for approval by the Finance Manager.
- Monitor the organizational revenue and advise management whenever funds are received
- Bank all the amounts received in cash intact and immediately
- Ensure monthly and timely reconciliation of all revenue and cash accounts
- Follow up with the banks to ensure that all issues outstanding are resolved within a month’s timeframe.
Accounting
- Prepare payments in accordance with SAO U policies, Donor requirements, and best practices.
- Capture all payment and receipt vouchers in the system accurately as soon as the transaction happens.
- Check all payments and receipts before capturing to ensure that all supporting documents are authorized, approved, and in line with IFRS, best practice, and the organizational policies and procedures.
- Ensure proper internal control measures are followed to prevent any occurrence of Fraud.
- Receive accountabilities and verify them to ensure genuinity timeliness and accuracy and that they are line with the SAO U policies and Donor’s requirements.
- Track individual advances and send monthly reminders for submission of accountabilities where necessary as per SAO U guidelines.
- Monthly reconciliation of all accounts under your control (Revenue, petty Cash, accounts receivable, and Accounts payable).
- Prepare monthly cashflow projections in line with program workplans and donor budgets in consultation with program personnel.
- Fundraising and Resource Mobilisation.
- Actively engage in resource mobilization.
Administration
- Prepare monthly budget vs actual reports to show the performance of various projects and thematic areas.
- Provide support to budget holders as a way of building their capacity
- Ensure effective management of the organizational assets by undertaking annual stock counts at least once a year and ensuring that there are effective controls in place to manage all assets.
- A member of the assets disposal committee of the organization
- In charge of ensuring that all the organizational stock and inventory are well accounted for and captured in the system.
- Ensure that all the statutory remittances and reports are submitted in accordance with the guidelines and that there are no penalties arising from late or non-remittances.
- Ensure that there are effective controls around the organizational fuel advances.
Financial reporting
- Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual organizational, donor, and ad hoc reports for submission by the 5th day of the following month.
- Request for donor funds and disbursements upon submission of reconciliations
- Acknowledgment of receipt of funds from donors and partners. Receive the funds in the system and prepare monthly reports of amounts received compared to what was expected.
- Ensure accurate and timely capturing of donor funding in the system and in accordance with the respective donor requirements.
Audit process
- Provide the internal and external auditors with the required information from areas of responsibility during the quarterly and annual audits.
- Update the audit file at least a month into the audit period for review by your supervisors
- Follow up with all audit issues in finance to ensure that they are successfully concluded without any audit queries in the management letter.
- Provide input for the development and updating of financial, assets, records management, and all policies, procedures, and standards necessary to enhance the organizational control environment.
- Keep abreast of new financial and tax laws in accordance with legal requirements and the best financial practices, and ensure that all staff are well informed in their use.
- Spearhead the quarterly inventory and annual asset counts in preparation for the annual audit.
Qualifications
- The candidate should hold a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in business administration, Accounting, Finance, Business Management, or Economics, and any other related field in finance.
- A minimum of 3 years dealing with accounts
- They should also have either an ACCA or a CPA qualification as an additional minimum qualification.
- Knowledge of the QuickBooks online system.
The job holder must be a hardworking, spiritually mature, focused, and trustworthy individual who upholds a high sense of integrity and accountability, and commitment to the vision, mission, values, and aspirations of SAO U.
To apply, send your application, resume, copies of your academic documents, and a recommendation letter from either your pastor or reverend to the Human Resources & Administration Manager at info@saouganda.org or hand deliver it to our head offices on Plot No. 1448, Kitala Zone, Kanyanya.
The deadline for applications is Friday, 27th November 2025.