Accountant

Kwanza Infrastructure Group · Kampala, Uganda · Full-time · Mid-level

Take full ownership of strengthening and professionalising the finance function across both entities (KK Advisors Africa and Kwanza Infrastructure Group), a build-and-fix role, not a maintenance one.

About the Platform

Kwanza Infrastructure Group and KK Advisors Africa are two distinct but deeply interconnected entities bound by a single purpose: making clean energy infrastructure a reality across sub-Saharan Africa.

Kwanza Infrastructure Group (www.kwanzaig.com) is a project development platform focused on conceptualising, originating, developing, and structuring bankable clean energy and electricity infrastructure projects — including Independent Power Producer (IPP) and Independent Power Transmission (IPT) projects. We convert complex early-stage or greenfield opportunities into investment-ready assets. This requires simultaneous command of technical, commercial and regulatory dimensions across markets where the development is long, multi-stakeholder and unforgiving of gaps in judgement or follow-through.

KK Advisors LLP (www.kkadvisors.africa) is our advisory arm providing commercial, technical, financial, and policy advisory services to governments, development partners, and private sector clients across the energy value chain. Our clients have included Development Partner-linked programmes, national governments, and private sector energy players. KK Advisors Africa has a deliberate expansion plan — business development is therefore not a peripheral activity. It is woven into how every team member is expected to think and operate. Building relationships, identifying mandates and contributing to the growth of the practice is an expectation of the role, not an occasional ask.

Both entities operate from Kampala, functioning through an integrated team structure, and draw upon the same institutional knowledge base and strategic vision.

This is a lean, high-performance professional platform – not a large organisation with deep benches or rigid corporate structures. The work is intellectually demanding, the mandates are high-stakes, and the learning curve is steep. Our members are expected to think independently, undertake a deep dive on every work stream, come up to speed quickly, operate with consistent professionalism and maturity and contribute meaningfully from day one.

About the Role

The Platform's finance function is at a critical stage of institutional development. Financial processes remain largely manual, system infrastructure is still evolving, compliance obligations require immediate remediation, and consolidated financial visibility across both entities is limited. This role exists to fix that — systematically, permanently, and with minimal supervision.

The Accountant will take full ownership of strengthening and professionalising the finance function across both entities. This requires simultaneously: resolving the legacy or historical gaps and inefficiencies while defining the policies, accounting rules, financial controls, ledger structure, and tax treatment required for long-term institutional scalability. The supporting systems, SOP repository, document filing infrastructure, workflow design, and dashboards are established and maintained within this role.

The successful candidate will be responsible for transitioning the Platform from fragmented and manually intensive financial processes to a modern, digitally integrated, audit-ready finance environment while ensuring day-to-day operational financial activities continue without disruption.

This is not a maintenance role. It is a build-and-fix role operating within a fast-moving infrastructure and advisory platform where financial discipline directly affects operational credibility, partner confidence, compliance standing, and execution capability.

If you require established systems and extensive oversight before you can work effectively, this role is unlikely to be a good fit. If, however, you are motivated by the challenge of building robust finance systems from the ground up — diagnosing weaknesses, resolving legacy compliance gaps, improving financial visibility, and institutional controls that prevent problems from recurring — this role offers an opportunity to shape the long-term operational backbone of a growing platform.

Core Responsibilities

1. Financial Diagnostic, Controls and Digital Transition

Objective: Transition the Platform from fragmented, manually intensive financial processes to a modern, scalable, digitally integrated and audit-ready finance function — beginning with a clear-eyed assessment of the current financial and operational position across both entities.

Within the first fourteen days, undertake a comprehensive diagnostic review of the Platform's existing financial records, spreadsheets, historical transactions, invoicing records, outstanding obligations, and compliance status across both entities and present management with a prioritised remediation and controls-strengthening roadmap.
Define the finance policy, accounting procedures, and compliance requirements governing key financial and operational processes including expense approvals, petty cash management, procurement, client invoicing, receivables tracking, intercompany cost allocations, reimbursement workflows, and financial record management. The Accountant maintains the SOP repository and version control on the underlying documentation.
Establish the accounting rules, financial controls, ledger structure, and tax settings required to operate on digital banking platforms, corporate mobile money structures, and automated transaction processing, including workflow design and system implementation.
Build and maintain rolling 12-month cash flow forecasting models, operational budgeting tools, and multi-year financial projections to improve management visibility on liquidity requirements, operational expenditure, project development costs, advisory revenue cycles, and strategic funding needs.
Assess and recommend appropriate accounting, bookkeeping, and financial management systems tailored to the operational realities of the Platform, ensuring the accounting rules, ledger structure, tax settings, and financial controls within those systems meet operational and audit requirements.
Establish foundational financial controls, reporting structures, reconciliation processes, and documentation standards necessary to support future audits, investor engagement, lender due diligence, and institutional scalability.