Finance Officer

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 400,000 transiting into work and 320,000 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, 3% of the total youth in work target will be refugees, and another 3% 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-u Please mention the word **GOODLY** and tag RMTYyLjIyMC4yMzQuMjY= when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMTYyLjIyMC4yMzQuMjY=). This is a beta feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.