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Accountant Jobs – Makerere University Biomedical Research Center

Job Description

About the Organization:

Makerere University Biomedical Research Center is a Ugandan registered Not-for-Profit Organization fully owned by Makerere University established within Makerere University College of Health Sciences.

MakBRC is a Ugandan registered Not-for-Profit Organization

Organization:

Duties and Responsibilities

  • Provides guidance to faculty, administrators, and other staff on proposal development and grant applications for external support opportunities.

  • Monitors/ Reviews research proposals before submission to Federal, and other agencies to ensure compliance with University and agency policies and procedures.

  • Analysis of fund balances to determine burn rate calculations for progress reporting, carry-over requests, projections, and close-outs of research/grant awards.

  • Maintain financial records in compliance with statutory requirements and agreement

  • Develop and review policies to enhance performance and strengthen internal control systems

  • Support the Head of Finance and Strategic management to provide documents and information to external auditors to carry out annual and specific audit

  • Assess any possible risk and develop mitigation measures to support research administration.

  • Act as a team member, by organizing meetings and effectively coordinating activities with collaborators.

  • Performs and assists with reconciling award activity of expenses to budget in order to avoid cost over-runs per Sponsor and University guidelines.

  • Performs and assists with the preparation and review of financial reports or invoices in collaboration with the Finance and Strategic Management.

  • Performs and assists with the monitoring of the awards revenues to the project accounts.

  • Reviews and ensures the awards Budget and other data elements in the finance system accurately reflect the terms of the award.

  • Assists with resolving issues, working with faculty, sponsored program administrators, university administration and internal and external constituents (e.g., Federal/State agency program officers, departmental chairs, etc.) for grant and non-grant (restricted) accounts.

  • Assists in coordinating activities and disseminating information to all grant collaborators, including annual offsite and onsite meetings for internal

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Makerere University Biomedical Research Center
  • A First Class degree from a chartered University in either Commerce, Accounting, Finance or Auditing.

  • Evidence of Membership with the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Uganda.

  • A minimum of three years of post-qualification experience.

  • Extensive Computer knowledge in Microsoft Excel, Vision Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SUN Accounting and Access is required

  • Membership with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) is an added advantage

  • Knowledge and expertise in grant awarding institutions such as the National Institute of Health (NIH) regulations, policies, procedures, and laws are added advantages.

  • The candidate should demonstrate an understanding of grant proposals and budgetary development, which is an added advantage.

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12 August 2024

APPLICATION FOR THIS POSITION MUST BE DONE ONLINE:
All qualified and interested candidates should address their application to the Human Resource office in PDF format and send them to makbrc.chs@mak.ac.ug

12 August 2024

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