Finance and Human Resources Officer

Elucid is a Berlin-based social enterprise helping global companies extend affordable, high-quality healthcare to smallholder farmers and workers in their supply chains. Our programs operate across sectors, including cocoa, coffee, bananas, rubber, cotton, and textiles, and are implemented in partnership with local organisations in six countries.

We work with companies such as Hershey’s, JDE Peet’s and Tony’s Chocolonely alongside institutional partners like Gavi, GIZ, KfW and others. Our work combines health programme delivery with rigorous measurement, so that the companies and institutions we work with can see, and report on, what their investment actually changes for the people in their supply chains.

Elucid Health Uganda is a locally-registered non-profit entity based in Uganda and serves as the in-country implementing partner for Elucid. Our team works directly with producer cooperatives, communities, and local stakeholders across key supply chains, including coffee, cocoa, and cotton, to bring Elucid’s programs to life on the ground — from enrollment and healthcare delivery to farmer engagement and field-level data collection.

Elucid is a fast-growing, mission-driven team representing more than 20 nationalities.

Role Overview

As Finance and HR Officer you are the financial and administrative backbone of our Uganda country office. You report to the Country Director of Elucid Health Uganda, and you work day to day with the finance team at our Berlin headquarters, who set the accounting, reporting and control standards you apply in the country.

This is a hands-on role: you run the country office’s bookkeeping, payroll, statutory filings and HR administration yourself rather than supervising a team that does it. Roughly 70% of your time is finance and 30% HR and office administration. You support a country team of 29 staff and field teams working in coffee growing sub-regions of Ankole and Greater Masaka.

In practice, you are the person who makes sure that every shilling Elucid spends in Uganda is documented, correctly coded and defensible to our auditors, to the Uganda Revenue Authority, and to the corporate and institutional partners who fund our programmes. You will need to be comfortable holding that line with colleagues who are in a hurry.

Your Role

1. Finance

Responsibilities

• 1.1 Bookkeeping and month-end close
• Maintain the country office’s books in [accounting software], ensuring every transaction is recorded promptly, coded to the right project and cost category, and backed by a valid document.
• Close the month and submit the country’s financial report to headquarters by the agreed deadline.
• Reconcile all bank and mobile money accounts monthly, and resolve reconciling items rather than carrying them forward.
• 1.2 Budgeting, forecasting and reporting:
• Prepare country and project budgets together with the Country Director and programme leads, maintain realistic cash forecasts, ensure timely submission of cash transfer requests to headquarters
• Support programme colleagues in reading, monitoring and using their budgets
• Prepare project financial reports for corporate clients and institutional funders in their formats and to their deadlines
• Ensure alignment of expenditure with the approved budget and cash forecast and obtain approval for any deviation before the expenditure is incurred.
• Financial reporting and audit support – timely preparation of periodic financial reports for
• management
• and preparation documentation to support internal or external audits.
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• Method of Application
• Applications shall be reviewed on a rolling basis and may close the role early by September 15, 2026, if we find the right person; so please apply as soon as you are ready.
• Shortlisted candidates will be invited to a first interview in the week of 22 September and asked to complete a short, practical finance exercise.
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