Financial Accountant

Ensuring payables, receivables, payments of staff expense and claims, develop account reconciliations, journal entries, design periodical, monthly, and quarterly inter-company reports and check that general ledger reconciliations are done and reviewed.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Commerce, Business Administration with specialty in Accounting,
  
• Professional certification (ACCA, CPA) is an added advantage
  
• Knowledge and proficiency in spreadsheets and ERP applications (SAP, tally, Oracle financials, JD Edwards)
  
• Tax knowledge of indirect, direct and international taxes
  
• 3 years accounts payable and general accounting experience gained in a reputable organization
  
• Experience in managing industrial plant operations
  
• Should have the ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and set priorities.
  
• Should be result oriented, self-driven with a high sense of quality and ability to meet tight deadlines.
  

• Payables- Enforcing the payments policy, processing supplier invoices, generating payments and managing relationships with suppliers.
  
• Payments Forecasts – compiling weekly and monthly payments forecast
  
• Controls- Support to the corporate financial accountant in ensuring controls around the payment process are adequate and are correctly applied in practice.
  
• Support to the Payables controller in administering tax payments and URA refunds, replenishing the URA gross payment account, administration of VAT, excise, and withholding tax ensuring compliance thereon.
  
• Ensure payments of staff expense claims and processing accountability reports Develop account reconciliations, journal entries, data compilation and analyses ensuring accuracy and timely delivery of accounts reports including actual, reforecast, intercompany, notes etc. Support the period end process to ensure correct and timely posting of transactions through review of balance sheet (reconciliations/ inventories, movement, etc) ensuring appropriate action is taken where required.
  
• Design periodical, monthly, and quarterly intercompany reports and check that general ledger reconciliations are done and reviewed.