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The successful candidate will report to the Group Financial Manager and will be responsible for, inter alia, the following:

Key Responsibility: Management Accounts

Core Tasks:

• Prepare monthly company financial statements (BS, IS, P&L, TB) and cost accounting reports.
• Compile and analyze financial information to prepare entries to accounts, such as general ledger accounts, and document business transactions.
• Establish, maintain, and coordinate the implementation of accounting and accounting control procedures.
• Monitor and review accounting and related system reports for accuracy and completeness.
• Prepare and review budget, revenue, expense, payroll entries, invoices, and other accounting documents.
• Analyze revenue and expenditure trends.
• Resolve accounting discrepancies.
• Maintain financial data bases, computer software systems and manual filing systems.
• Input and handling of financial data and reports for the company's automated financial systems.
• Interact with internal and external auditors in completing audits.
• Sales and debtors reconciliations and maintenance
• Reconciling VAT & Excise Duty accounts.
• Ensure all appropriate accounting procedures are followed in compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).

Key Responsibility: Cash Section

Core Tasks:

• Processing Cash and bank book transactions.
• Reconciliation of bank accounts.
• Reconciliation of petty cash accounts.
• Posting receipts and payments.

Key Responsibility: Accounts Payables

Core Tasks:

• Ensuring that the AP policies of the organization are implemented
• Capturing invoices for payment.
• Obtain approval for invoice payments.
• Load approved payments onto the online banking platform
• Sorting out vendor complaints and carrying out monthly reconciliation on all vendor accounts

Key Responsibility: Credit Control

Core Tasks:

• Ensuring that the credit policies of the organization are implemented
• Reconciliation of customer accounts periodically to ensure prompt payment receipts hence increase company’s cash flow
• Follow up and reconcile problematic customer accounts
• Debt management on assigned debtor’s portfolio
• Review of the periodic high balance reports and limits where necessary.
• Preparing and dispatching customer statements monthly.
• Sorting out customer complaints and carrying out monthly reconciliation on all customer accounts

Key Responsibility: Administrative Management

Core Tasks:

• Assist with office administration (in the absence of the office administrator)
• Providing HR with any company information that it may require
• Review and maintain lease and office contracts

EDUCATION:

• Recognized Finance Qualification/Degree

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE

• At least 5 years’ experience as an accountant
• Professional/Technical Expertise
• Accountable for results
• Information Sharing
• Business and Financial Knowledge
• Customer and Partner Focus
• Teamwork and Collaboration
• Process Improvement
• Use of Technology

REQUIRED KEY COMPETENCIES/ATTRIBUTES:

• Professional/Technical Expertise
• Accountable for results
• Information Sharing
• Business and Financial Knowledge
• Customer and Partner Focus
• Teamwork and Collaboration
• Process Improvement
• Use of Technology

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