TAXMAN MAY 2018

12
VINCENT SERUMA
REVEALED
For the first time in URA, members of
senior management were transferred
across departments. Susan Kamugasa
Muyiyi the Taxman’ daring snoop caught
up with Vincent Seruma the Assistant
Commissioner Public and Corporate Affairs
formerly AC Human Resource (HR) Division
under Corporate Services for a candid
conversation about the changes.
Q. How did you feel when you
received news about your transfer
from the Human Resource Division
to the Public and Corporate Affairs
Division?
A. I had mixed feelings. I wondered
what it meant in terms of my career.
By the time I was transferred, I had
worked for 13 years in the Human
Resource function. When I retire
from URA in a few years’ time after
20- years of service, what will I define
myself as; as a Human Resource
professional or Public and Corporate
Affairs expert?
It bothered me. Maybe it is still
something I am still battling with.
My work philosophy is to always get
things done regardless of where my
posting is.
had to counsel myself that it did not
have to be me to do finish all the work
I had started. Someone else other
than myself can ably see all outputs
through. I had to painfully drop
designing a 360 degree assessment
leadership tool in the middle of testing
and deployment.
In HR, I had already gone through the
team formation process. I was at that
point where I was getting my teams
to know me well and the other way
round. . Having to be uprooted after
13 years was not easy. I love working
in an environment of continuous
innovation.
I was thinking, how am I going to start
this all over again? Discussing how
we were going to work and getting
output from the team, getting to
I had become attached to HR; the
plans and projects I had for HR. I
had to immediately detach myself. I