Senior Accountant (Q-Sourcing Uganda)

Senior Accountant (Q-Sourcing Uganda)

About This Job:

Q-Sourcing Limited trading as Q-Sourcing Servtec is a manpower management solutions firm operating in the East African Region in the countries of Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, and South Sudan.

On behalf of our client in the Manufacturing Sector, we are looking for a competent, skilled, and experienced Senior Accountant to work in Uganda, Kampala

Role Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join us as a Senior Accountant to work in a truly global environment to proactively produce and provide to all interested parties timely, reliable management information and analyses related to the operations of Volcafe Uganda Entities in order to support business diagnosis, strategy and decisions making. The role aims to ensure that there is robust financial management and reporting. The role provides long term development potential for someone eager to demonstrate their skills and experience in the fast-paced soft commodities environment. This position reports into Head of Finance.

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This role will be working for Kyagalanyi Coffee Limited, Volcafe’s company in Uganda

Key Accountabilities

Controllership

  • Produce and consolidate full financials monthly, quarterly and consolidate in accordance with group policies and procedures with clear performance commentaries. This includes construction of production cost per unit analysis and harmonization of all other production KPIs in making month end commentaries
  • Develop account reconciliations, journal entries, data compilation and analyses ensuring accuracy and timely delivery of accounts to the group including actual, reforecast, monthly best estimate etc.
  • Coordinate with various departments and perform variation analyses for all technical accounting problems, do periodical simulations and set targets for the different drivers not limited to inventory and debtor days, production KPIs, Capex, and sensitivity analysis including detailed models in line with commercial strategies
  • Take the lead in coordination of the budgeting process and tracking performance with clear commentaries explaining the variance.
  • Create a mechanism of harmonizing key performance indicators across the Business Units to deliver benchmarking and efficiency.
  • Drive for timely booking of performance in Hyperion system and harmonization of reported numbers across systems (AX, HFM, ITAS, CPRS)
  • Drive for adherence to chart of accounts hierarchy during posting in ERP to deliver automation of financial reporting.
  • End to End ownership of the control environment for the full cycle of the business with a focus on the complete enterprise risk matrix of the organisation

Performance Manager

  • Work hand in hand with FC to deliver process maps for finance including a robust month end checklists that are aligned to finance ambitions.
  • Creation and consolidation of performance packs/dashboards for all the Business Units and are shared daily/weekly/monthly to aid in decision making.

Value manager

  • Ensure compliance with all Internal financial and accounting policies and guidelines including authorisation matrixes.
  • Ensuring 100% adherence to internal policies, processes and controls to minimise risks and eliminate fraud. (Zero tolerance to controllable losses)
  • Predict and manage tax risk ensuring that daily business activities have tax risk management embedded in.

Strategic Partnering

  • Drive for automation of financial reports across systems ensuring there are checks and balances on the reported numbers in AX, HFM, ITAS, and CPRS

Skills and Experience

  • A degree in Commerce or Finance or Business studies and a professional qualification (ACCA/CPA). Tax knowledge is a strong advantage.
  • Minimum 5 years’ experience in a busy business environment. A reliable Audit firm and or FMCGs experience is highly desirable.
  • Highly developed analytical skills
  • Excellent understanding and application of management information systems
  • Excellent working knowledge of MS Excel and specifically spreadsheets design.

Management Skills

  • Good oral and written communication and interpersonal skills
  • Highly motivated, dynamic, self-driven with ability to work with minimal supervision
  • Multitasking capabilities with strong ability to plan, prioritize and manage multiple projects under strict timelines.
  • Team player.

All candidates who meet the criteria outlined above are encouraged to apply under the job vacancy “QSSU -Senior Accountant – KUL

Application Link: https://jobs.qsourcing.com/jobs/Careers/735362000021085001/QSSU-Senior-Accountant-SA?source=CareerSite

Note
The deadline for applications is not later than 05:00 pm Friday 25th September 2026

Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.

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