Finance Officer (02) at GOAL Uganda, Kampala

Job Title: Finance Officer
Location: Kampala
Reports to: Finance Coordinator

Application Deadline: 8th March 2026

Programme Background

The Agrifood System Transformation for Youth Employment (ASTYE) Uganda program

ASTYE is a 5-year transformative initiative designed to enable dignified and fulfilling work opportunities primarily for financially disadvantaged young women, refugees, and vulnerable groups by addressing structural barriers in Uganda’s Agrifood system. Aligned with Uganda’s Vision 2040, the National Development Plan and Government of Uganda Agriculture Value Chain Development Strategy, the program will contribute to national efforts toward poverty alleviation, economic growth, as well food and nutrition security. Additionally, ASTYE is part of the Mastercard Foundation’s Young Africa Works strategy in Uganda, which aims to empower 4.3 million young Ugandans, particularly young women, by addressing structural barriers to employment and providing them with the skills and resources to succeed.

Specifically, GOAL will implement component one to reach 500,000 financially disadvantaged young people, with 456,000 transiting into work and 336,000 securing dignified and fulfilling work. As the program is young women-centric, 80% of the total outreach target will be young women within Uganda’s agrifood ecosystem. Furthermore, 5% of the total youth in work target will be refugees, and another 5% will be people with disabilities.

General Description of the Role

The Finance Officer will be responsible for providing support to the Finance Coordinator with donor reporting requirements, following up on payments to private sectors actors, preparing field funds transfers to field offices, processing payments for remote field offices, supporting partnership compliance team with completion of due diligence whenever requested and any other ad hoc finance requirements for GOAL programmes.

The key responsibilities of the role will be:

• Review scanned documents required for MasterCard financial reporting and follow-up on any outstanding documents in a timely manner;
• Preparation of quarterly salary schedules required for quarterly donor reporting to MasterCard Foundation
• Ensure timely preparation of field funds request by Kampala office
• Timely processing of payment requests for remote field offices
• Oversee petty cash maintenance and bank register maintenance by the Finance Assistant for ASTYE, ensuring all expenses are reasonable and appropriately authorized and recorded
• Monitoring floats outstanding for ASTYE staff and ensuring they are cleared on a regular basis
• Ensuring all purchases have been made following GOAL purchasing procedures and have all relevant supporting documentation attached to payment requisition in line with GOAL and MasterCard Receipt requirements.
• Ensuring that monthly cash books and supporting documents from all ASTYE field locations are submitted to Kampala in a timely manner by close of business on the 1st working day of the new month.
• Providing finance cover to ASTYE Finance Officers in the field when they are on annual leave.
• Liaising with HR to ensure all staff allocated to ASTYE Program complete their timesheets on a timely basis.
• Support Finance Coordinator and Partner Compliance Managers in processing partner disbursements, re-imbursements, and transfers.
• Prepare all receipts and paperwork for ASTYE quarterly financial reports.
• Assist in the preparation of monthly supporting schedules and month-end accounts in the absence of the financial accountant.
• Support the Finance Specialist with completion of month-end cashbooks ensuring transactions have been correctly recorded to their respective donors

Job Level Specifications

Essential Criteria

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration
• At least 3 years’ experience in a similar role within the NGO sector
• Qualified or part qualified CPA, ACCA

Desirable Criteria

• Working knowledge of Sage or a similar package.
• Excellent computer skills including proficiency in Microsoft Excel
• Good team player, flexible

General Terms and Conditions

At GOAL, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please just contact our Recruitment Team at recruitment@ug.goal.ie

GOAL Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:
GOAL is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building an inclusive environment for all employees. We foster an inclusive culture where all voices are heard and valued. We know that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.

All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling GOAL’s commitment to equal employment opportunity and equal treatment. GOAL does not discriminate against any employee on the basis of sex, race, colour, ethnic background, tribe, birth, creed or religion or social or economic standing, political opinion, disability.

Code of Conduct and Accountability within GOAL

GOAL is an equal opportunities employer and has values and behaviours framework which defines our code of conduct. Any candidate offered a job with GOAL will be expected to adhere to the following key areas of accountability.

• Comply with GOAL’s policies and procedures with respect to safeguarding, Code of Conduct, health and safety, data protection and confidentiality, do no harm principles and unacceptable behaviour protocols.
• Report any concerns about the welfare of a child or vulnerable adult or any wrongdoings within our programming area.
• Report any concerns about inappropriate behaviour of a GOAL staff or partner.

Safeguarding

Children and vulnerable adults a must be safeguarded to the maximum extent from deliberate or inadvertent actions and failings that place them at risk of abuse, sexual exploitation, injury, and any other harm. One of the ways that GOAL shows this on-going commitment to safeguarding is to include rigorous background and reference checks in the selection process for all candidates.

GOAL 

Established in 1977, GOAL is an international humanitarian agency and works with the most vulnerable communities to help them respond to and overcome humanitarian crises, and to assist those facing poverty and exclusion achieve greater resilience and well-being. GOAL envisions a world beyond humanitarian crises where poverty no longer exists, where vulnerable communities exposed to shocks and stresses are resilient, where barriers to well-being are removed and where everyone has equal rights and opportunities.

General Description of the Country Programme 

First operational in Uganda in 1979, the current GOAL Uganda country programme focuses on Health, (including WASH, Health Accountability and Nutrition); and a market-based systems approach to improving agricultural livelihoods and WASH. GOAL Uganda mainstreams gender, child protection, social behavior changes and resilience strategies across all programming. GOAL uses a mixture of direct implementation and partnerships with national and international civil society organizations, local government, the private sector and communities to give effect to our mission.

GOAL Uganda has a skilled team of over 110 personnel and has a head office in Kampala and field offices in 7 locations across Northern, Southwestern and Eastern regions of Uganda.  GOAL Uganda’s donors include the Mastercard Foundation, charity: water, Irish Aid, The Kingdom of Netherland Embassy in Uganda (EKN) and other private donors.

Interested applicants who meet the requirements should apply through the link with at least 3 reference contacts (current or former Line Manager) from the last three employers and daytime contact number by 8th March 2026.