Financial Accountant

EMPLOYEE JOB DESCRIPTION

JOB TITLE Financial Accountant

LINE MANAGER Financial Controller

CONTRACT TYPE Permanent

JOB DESCRIPTION
• Monitoring and maintaining entries in the accounting systems for up to 6 entities across Africa. Ad-hoc assistance will be required across the remaining group companies
• Monitoring daily bank balances and preparation of the weekly cash balance summary
• Review of the bank reconciliations across the African entities
• Preparation of monthly cash movement analysis
• Review of the PL to ensure appropriate costs and revenues have been recognised in the period
• Reconciliation of intercompany transactions and balances
• Assistance with payment uploads and monitoring, as required
• Raising sales invoices as required
• Monthly review of the trade receivables and payables to ensure all invoices recorded on the system are still valid
• Forming excellent working relationships with colleagues across the international organisation
• Preparing audit schedules, assisting with audit queries and other year-end work
• Liaising with the Tax Consultant for withholding tax and VAT review & remittance
• Liaising with the other external stakeholders such as bank officers, Auditors, consultants etc in applicable entities as the need arises
• Ensuring deadlines for tax returns and filings are met
• Ad-hoc petty cash review to ensure assistant financial accountants reconciliations are accurate
• Balance sheet reconciliation and review
• Payroll review, ensuring accuracy of payroll related schedules. Also ensuring proper recognition and payment of statutory deductions to proper authorities.
• Monitoring of loans and advances to ensure funds are recovered where appropriate
• Supervision of the assistant financial accountant and remotely supporting the accounts staff in the other African entities
• Any other administrative duties delegated by the Financial Controller

PERSON SPECIFICATION

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION:
• The ideal candidate will be ACCA qualified (or equivalent professional qualification) with at least 3 years post qualified experience
• It is desirable but not essential that the candidate has a bachelor’s degree in finance or business

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
• At least 10 years’ experience in Finance or other related/relevant roles
• At least 3 years post qualified experience is required for this role

KEY COMPETENCIES:
• Intermediate excel skills (v-lookups, pivot tables, sumifs)
• Numerial accuracy
• Business Savvy
• Strong planning and organisational skills
• Relationship Management
• Analytical Thinking
• Technical and Functional Expertise
• Understanding the Business
• Achieving Results
• Serving the internal stakeholders
• Teamwork
• Interpersonal and Communication Skills

If you have what it takes to do the role send your resume and cover letter to hr@irokopartners.com not later than Friday August 3 2018
Experienced hires only