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Financial Controller - Media Wave Uganda

Date Posted: Oct 27, 2020
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Job Detail

  • Location:
    Mbale, Eastern, Uganda
  • Company:
  • Type:
    Contract
  • Shift:
  • Career Level:
  • Positions:
    4
  • Experience:
    5 Year
  • Gender:
    No Preference
  • Degree:
    Masters
  • Apply Before:
    Dec 01, 2020

Job Description

What You Will Be Doing

Your main mission will be to perform Quality Control (QC) reviews of account reconciliations, financial statements and reports produced by our accountants. You will use your outstanding technical knowledge and expertise in US GAAP to certify our accountants’ work against a defined quality bar, identify all errors, make a Pass/Fail decision, and support Fails with reasons so that the accountants can fix the mistakes you found.

What You Won’t Be Doing

  • Randomly deciding what work activities to perform on any given day
  • Spending hours in meetings each day talking about the work to be performed
  • Solely focusing on process improvements
  • Dealing with HR/administrative burdens, like annual performance reviews

Financial Controller Key Responsibilities

Performing QC reviews of accountants’ work by:
  • Identifying all errors in account reconciliations, financial statements and reports
  • Ensuring compliance with US GAAP, following standardized formats that will pass an external audit
  • Making a Pass/Fail decision, and documenting reasons for any Fails

Basic Requirements
  • Accounting, Finance, Economics, Math or Science degree
  • CPA, ACA or ACCA qualification with a recognized global accounting firm (Big 4)
  • 3+ years as a controller for a large (US$50m+ revenue) business that handles complex consolidations (e.g., multiple subsidiaries, foreign exchange, external debt, revenue recognition)
  • 5+ years of experience with US GAAP/IFRS
  • Experience with at least 5 audits (as an auditor or client) at a Big 4 Firm
  • Familiarity working with a large ERP system (e.g. Oracle’s NetSuite, SAP)
  • Excellent English communication skills

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Bombo, Central, Uganda

Media Wave Uganda  is a leading technology company that specializes in Software development, Innovation and Value Added Services.   Read More

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