Finance Officer

GOAL Uganda

About GOAL Uganda

GOAL has been working in Uganda since 1979 With a programme expenditure of €8.2M in 2023, 150 staff work across six office locations. Together, we deliver humanitarian and sustainable development programmes that strengthen community resilience and promote socio-economic growth. Core areas of focus include health, WASH, and agricultural livelihoods. Looking ahead, GOAL remains committed to tackling the challenges of climate change and protecting the health and economic well-being of local communities. Through the INSPIRE programme, GOAL is supporting community development, particularly among smallholder farmers, by addressing the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation, reaching 108 villages across 54 sub-counties in 2024.

Job Description

The Finance Officer will be responsible for providing support to the Financial Coordinator with donor reporting requirements, following up on payments to private sectors actors, supporting partnership compliance team with completion of due diligence whenever requested and any other ad hoc finance requirements for GOAL programmes.

Responsibilities

Month-end Reporting: Timely updating of Fort Portal/Hoima monthly cashbooks
Safe custody: Maintain safe custody of the organisation cash kept at the field office.
Payments: Timely processing of cash payments to staff, project participants and suppliers based on approved payments requisitions
Monitoring floats outstanding and ensuring they are cleared as soon as activities are completed.
Budgeting: Provide support to the Finance Manager in developing accurate and realistic projects and annual budgets
Monthly Budget Monitoring Reviews: Providing support to Finance Manager in reviewing monthly Budget Monitoring Tools (BMT) as well as updating forecasts.
Reporting: Provide timely and accurate weekly and monthly financial reports to Kampala Finance Team.
Liaising with Finance Manager and Finance in Kampala as necessary on finance related matters.
Liaise with banks on any financial related matters.
To support the organisation in ongoing risk management at a field level and to support the fulfilment of the GOAL Uganda finance plan objectives
Ensure that monthly fund requests are sent to Kampala by the end of the month for the coming period.
Finance represented in all Field based Logistics meetings e.g. supplier due diligence, supplier mapping, supplier complaints.
Contractors Databases if any updated with payments weekly
Lead in internal and external audit preparation in support to the country compliance teams for your locations.