Finance Assistant

About the role

Raising the Village is seeking a Finance Assistant to support its finance team in Kampala. The role focuses on accurate bookkeeping, budgeting, financial analysis, and compliance across field districts, providing advisory support to field officers.

Key responsibilities

• Maintain and file all financial documents (cash advances, requests, receipts) to ensure audit‑ready records.
• Update finance systems with timely data and participate in monthly Sage project reconciliations.
• Support budgeting, budget tracking and implementation of financial policies; act as a finance business partner to assigned field offices.
• Reconcile staff advances, petty cash and project‑specific accounts on a monthly basis and manage weekly staff advance activity.
• Post journal entries, manage fuel accountability and government official payment records.
• Receive, log and verify invoices; process them via the procurement module and follow up on vendor disputes.
• Review and reconcile project activity accountability, investigate discrepancies and oversee individual accounts for field officers.
• Review mobile‑money transactions for compliance, initiate payments via Beyonic and flag variances.
• Report non‑compliant financial practices to senior finance leadership and recommend process improvements.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration (Accounting) or equivalent.
• Minimum 2 years of professional experience in accounting, bookkeeping, finance management or audit.
• Practical experience with mobile money payment solutions is essential.
• Familiarity with accounting software such as Sage or similar is an advantage.

Required skills

• Sage (or similar accounting software)
• Beyonic mobile‑money payment platform