1. About Aptech Africa

Aptech Africa Limited is an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) solar company headquartered in Uganda, delivering projects across 10 countries in Africa. Our finance team supports project delivery, client and financier reporting, and sound financial control across our regional offices.

2. Role Purpose The Senior Accountant leads day-to-day accounting and financial reporting for the company, with a focus on project-based accounting, statutory compliance and strong internal controls. The role ensures accurate, timely financial information for management, clients, financiers and regulators, and supports the CFO in finance operations across multiple countries and currencies.

3. Key Responsibilities

Financial accounting and reporting

- Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual consolidated management accounts and financial statements for Massawa Holding Group and its subsidiaries, ensuring accurate intercompany reconciliations and compliance with IFRS.
- Manage the general ledger, Trial balances, month-end and year-end close, journals, accruals and balance sheet reconciliations.
- Reconcile intercompany transactions, loans, advances, and balances; review and confirm month-end debtors’ and creditors’ closing balances, ensuring accurate reconciliations and financial reporting across all branches
- Investigate reporting differences and ensure consistency of group accounting policies

· Maintain consolidation schedules and audit documentation, prepare audit schedules, and respond to external auditors’ queries. · Monitor daily petty cash transactions across all four branches, verifying cash receipts and payments, supporting documents, cash balances, and daily closing balances against the petty cash books

Project and contract accounting

- Maintain project cost ledgers and track actual cost against budget for each EPC project.
- Prepare project profitability and cost-to-complete reports for project managers and the CFO.




- Supervise finance staff and enforce accounting policies and approval procedures

Tax and statutory compliance

- Monitor and review VAT, PAYE, withholding tax, corporate income tax, NSSF, and other statutory obligations, ensuring accurate calculations, timely filings and payments, and reconciliation of VAT purchase registers with URA VAT ledgers.
- Coordinate tax compliance and statutory reporting across other operating countries in collaboration with local finance teams and tax advisors.
- Ensure accurate month-end payroll provisions, tax postings, employee tax ledger maintenance, and reconciliation of sales taxes, salary-related taxes, and other statutory liabilities across all four branches, ensuring timely payments, updated closing balances, and monthly reports to the CFO covering tax adjustments, closing balances, and outstanding liabilities..

· Coordinate tax reconciliations, statutory payment schedules, and internal and external audits across all four branches, maintaining complete supporting documentation and ensuring timely resolution of audit findings. Payables, receivables and cash management

- Supervise daily accounts payable and receivable transactions, treasury operations, supplier and customer reconciliations, payment runs, daily bank reconciliations,
- Monitor accounts receivable and follow up on collections.
- Prepare cash flow forecasts and bank reconciliations, and manage foreign currency (UGX/USD and other) transactions and revaluations.

Inventory and fixed assets





- Work with procurement and warehouse teams to reconcile inventory records, goods received and issued to project sites.
- Maintain the fixed asset register and prepare depreciation schedules.

Budgeting, controls and team support

- Support annual budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis.
- Strengthen internal controls, approval procedures and documentation across finance processes.
- Supervise and mentor accounts staff and coordinate with finance colleagues in regional offices.
- Coordinate with all branches to prepare, consolidate, and monitor monthly budgets, track actual performance against budget, analyse variances, and implement corrective actions to ensure effective cost control and financial discipline.

Qualifications and Experience

Required

- MBA (Finance), M.Com (Master of Commerce) or an equivalent postgraduate qualification in Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
- Skilled Qualification: CPA (Uganda), ACCA, CIMA, Chartered Accountant -Inter , or Cost and Management Accountant (CMA).
- At least [4] years of progressive accounting experience, including at least [5] years in a senior role.
- Strong working knowledge of IFRS and Ugandan tax law, including VAT, PAYE and withholding tax.
- Experience with an ERP or accounting system (for example, Tally , QuickBooks, and Odoo ) and advanced Excel skills.

Preferred

- Experience in EPC, engineering, energy, or manufacturing industries.
- Experience with multi-currency accounting and multi-country or multi-entity reporting.
- Experience preparing reports for donors, development finance institutions or impact financiers.
- Working knowledge of English

Application Details To apply: Send your CV, cover letter and copies of academic and professional certificates to [email protected] quoting "Senior Accountant" in the subject line. Aptech Africa is an equal opportunity employer. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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