Finance Advisor

The Finance Advisor is responsible for assisting the Finance Manager with the overall finance operations by ensuring efficient financial management, compliance, and accountability across all Ipas Uganda operations, programs and subgrants/subawards. The Finance Advisor is also responsible for contributing to budget drafts, reviewing proposals and reporting functions.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in related field
  

Experience

• Minimum of 4–6 years of progressive experience in financial management, including grant and donor fund accounting.
  
• Experience operating within a strong organizational culture of accountability, effectively managing financial integrity and ethical decision-making.
  
• Demonstrated experience managing large multi-donor budgets and complex financial reporting.
  
• Solid understanding of URA tax compliance, NSSF and PAYE filings, and other statutory obligations.
  

Financial and Risk Management:  

• Complies with Ipas financial management and other operational policies and procedures in relevant functional areas (inventory, procurement, grants, subawards, payroll, IT)
  
• Proactively identifies financial and operational risks within the country office and subgrant/subaward portfolio management, and works with the Program Manager, Finance Manager and relevant teams to develop and Implement risk mitigation plans and activities
  
• Ensures good stewardship of funding in their work areas 
  

Program, technical, or functional content of the job: 

• Supports program teams in developing activity-based budgets that clearly align with program outcomes and donor requirements, promoting efficient project cycle management, activity planning, resource allocation, and efficient execution.
  
• Reviews, processes, coordinates, and reconciles payments to vendors and other outside entities
  
• Prepares monthly bank reconciliation, reviews and approves transactions on Ipas accounting software, and approves petty cash expenses.
  

Resource mobilization:

• Contributes to donor reports and externally facing documents.
  
• Contributes to proposals (primarily budgets) in relevant technical areas.
  

Communications & representation:

• Represents Ipas with business partners, such as contractors or consultants.
  
• Documents learning and results