Reporting to the Head of Accounting, Finance and Control, the objective of the accountant is to -prepare the monthly management accounts and year-end statutory accounts and audit as well as reconcile the company’s balance sheet and P&L accounts.
Main Key Responsibilities
Tasks and responsibilities may vary and develop as the role and business progresses, thus the list in not to be considered exhaustive:
- Ensuring that major control accounts are aligned to underlying transactions and that these are in line with applicable accounting standards and chart of accounts, following company SAP rules as required.
- Prepare and post journals, maintain accruals and prepayments.
- Apply correction to anomalies found, create accounting entries.
- Check and follow up on payments, create and liquidate annual declarations.
- Preparation of VAT returns and Government statistical returns.
- Maintain Fixed Asset summaries and reports.
- Analysis for review of General Ledger accounts as required, including depreciation and amortization forecasts.
- Checking the monthly accounting and analyzing the transfer to the payroll computer chain.
- Verify and follow up on payments, create and liquidate annual declarations, capitalize Fixed Assets as required.
- Support the company’s Internal Control Systems management of compensative controls over the Financial Reporting.
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or related major
- 5+ years’ experience in accounting
- Ability to identify issues and make recommendations to improve process/procedures.
- Ability to challenge the current status-quo and take leadership to drive improvement.
- Adaptable, willing to learn, high level of integrity and ownership with good communication skills.
- Strong teamwork skills promoting a positive team-based environment.
- Good understanding of taxation principles (both direct and indirect taxes)
- Good knowledge of Office suite
- Previous knowledge of SAP system
- Good client service skills
- Attention to details and accuracy
