GENERAL ACCOUNTING MANAGER

OPEN CAMPUS – OFFICE OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION

  QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

The candidate should be a Chartered or Certified Accountant or have a Masters Degree in Accounting /Finance. He/she should also have relevant accounting experience including a minimum of 5 years at a managerial level. Candidates should be very familiar with computerised systems for processing accounting transactions.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

The successful candidate is responsible to the Campus Bursar of the Open Campus and will be required to/responsible for:

• maintain the Open Campus's General and Operating Ledgers, and assure the appropriateness, accuracy and completeness of the transactions recorded therein, and the timely production of periodic financial statements and operating reports for the Campus, its Centres and operating units;
• the timely preparation of the annual Financial Statements of the Open Campus for the external audit and for consolidation with the Financial Statements of the other entities of the University of the West Indies.
• manage the operations of the Banner Finance System for the Open Campus process purchase requisitions, purchase orders, disbursements, receipts, journal vouchers for the Open Campus operations, and
• monitor the submission of financial data from Country Sites and other off-line operating centres.
• Liaise with the Office of Finance and the other campus bursaries on accounting and other issues.

The successful candidate will be expected to have:

• good management and technical skills;
• excellent interpersonal and communication skills;
• vision, creative and innovative ability and drive, expressed in the development and refinement of systems, procedures, form and content of information collection analysis, dissemination and presentation;
• the ability to present information in a clear and logical manner both orally and in writing, and
• the ability to deliver in accordance with strict reporting deadlines.

Detailed applications should be sent as soon as possible to

The Director of Administration/University Registrar

Office of Administration

The Vice-Chancellery

UWI

Mona, Kingston 7

Jamaica

oadmin@uwimona.edu.jm

Applicants are advised to request three referees to send references under CONFIDENTIAL cover directly to the Director of Administration/University Registrar without waiting to be contacted by the University.

CLOSING DATE FOR RECEIPT OF APPLICATIONS – August 29, 2008

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