Bookkeeper

Required: minimum requirements include:

• A certificate, diploma, or degree in Accounting or Finance
  
• At least 3 years of relevant bookkeeping or financial management experience
  
• Demonstrable financial management and recordkeeping skills
  
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to meet deadlines and work with minimal supervision
  
• Strong decision-making skills and keen attention to detail
  
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
  
• Proficiency in remote cloud-based tools such as Google Workspace and Slack
  
• Working knowledge of financial management tools such as Xero and ApprovalMax
  
• The ability to work effectively in a multicultural environment distributed across Africa
  

Preferred: candidates who are able to demonstrate the following will have an advantage:

• Experience in financial management within the not-for-profit or media sector
  
• Familiarity with grant reporting and donor financial compliance
  
• Experience working in a remote or distributed team environment
  
• Proficiency in French, Arabic, or other African languages
  

• Recording financial transactions from source documents including customer invoices, cash receipts, and supplier invoices
  
• Reconciling control accounts and conducting periodic reconciliations across all accounts to ensure accuracy
  
• Conducting weekly reconciliations of all bank accounts
  
• Processing monthly payroll journals in a timely manner
  
• Issuing invoices and receipts to customers and ensuring receivables are collected promptly
  
• Purchasing supplies and equipment as authorised by management, monitoring stock levels and reordering as necessary
  
• Tagging and monitoring fixed assets
  
• Assisting the Senior Accountant in preparing financial statements and collating information for external audits
  
• Maintaining an orderly accounting filing system
  
• Identifying opportunities to improve financial processes and reporting efficiency