Finance Control Analyst - Kano

General Ledger & Journal Entry Control

• Review the monthly trial balance and general ledger to identify misclassified, duplicate, negative, or unsupported entries.
• Perform risk-based reviews of manual journals, back-dated entries, reversals, and sensitive account postings, verifying accounting logic and supporting documentation.
• Monitor temporary, clearing, and suspense accounts, ensuring all open items are promptly investigated, allocated, and cleared.
• Review account mapping across chart-of-account codes, cost centers, departments, and SKUs to eliminate dimension errors.

Balance Sheet Governance & Reconciliation Oversight

• Review material balance sheet reconciliations—including bank, AR, AP, inventory, fixed assets, and debt—ensuring every balance is fully supported by schedules.
• Perform subledger-to-general-ledger checks for core accounts and oversee reconciliations performed by the accounting team, challenging aged items until resolved.
• Reconcile intercompany positions across entities, ensuring matching balances and resolving material discrepancies.
• Verify period-end cut-off across revenue, purchases, inventory movements, accruals, and prepayments to ensure correct accounting period alignment.

Operational Risk & Working Capital Control

• Review receivables and payables aging ledgers to identify unusual credit balances, unapplied receipts, duplicate vendor invoices, and unrecoverable amounts.
• Evaluate inventory reconciliations, negative stock entries, and unexpected product-cost or gross-margin movements that signal posting errors.
• Monitor bank account activities, stale reconciling items, unidentified transactions, and foreign-exchange revaluations for accuracy.
• Perform reasonableness checks on statutory tax liabilities (VAT/sales tax, withholding tax, payroll taxes), verifying alignment with statutory filings.

Management & Exception Reporting

• Compile a monthly Financial Control Report detailing identified accounting discrepancies, their measurable financial impact, assigned owners, and required corrective actions.
• Prepare concise monthly P&L and balance sheet variance reviews to highlight anomalies and items requiring investigation.
• Maintain a central Issues Log to document control deficiencies, tracking corrective actions through to final clearance.
• Escalate material, recurring, or unresolvable control failures to the Finance Manager/Financial Controller alongside clear supporting evidence and actionable recommendations.

Qualifications & Experience

• Academic Qualifications: Higher degree (Bachelor's or equivalent) in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline.
• Professional Certifications: Active pursuit or completion of a recognized professional accounting qualification (e.g., ACCA, CPA, CIMA, or equivalent) is highly regarded.
• Required Experience: Proven track record in general ledger review, financial control, internal/external audit, or financial reporting, appropriate for a junior-to-mid-level professional.
• Minimum of 3–4 years of relevant accounting, financial control, or audit experience.

Technical Skill

• Demonstrated capability working within an ERP or enterprise accounting system.
• Proven skill in extracting transaction-level detail, running data queries, and tracing ledger entries back to physical source documents.
• Advanced capability in Microsoft Excel (e.g., lookups, pivot tables, data verification, reconciliation formulas, and structured report layouts).

Core Competencies

• Strong accounting judgement and attention to detail.
• Financial control and reconciliation expertise.
• Analytical and investigative thinking.
• Ability to identify unusual patterns and challenge unsupported balances or transactions.
• Strong follow-up and issue-resolution discipline.
• Ability to distinguish genuine business movements from accounting errors.
• Clear written and verbal communication.
• High level of integrity, confidentiality and ownership.