Job Description: Responsibilities & Requirements
Job purpose:
- Administer appropriate accounting practices to facilitate efficient and productive financial management practices for the company. Provide financial information to management by researching and analyzing accounting data.
Key Responsibilities:
- Prepare and review budget, revenue, expense, payroll entries, and other accounting documents and submit copies to the Managing Director for discussion.
- Prepare financial assets, liabilities, and capital account entries by compiling and analyzing account information.
- Undertake a monthly Reconciliation exercise on all the company’s Bank Accounts which must involve account balance shown on bank statements, deposits in transit, outstanding checks etc and submit feedback/advice to the Managing Director.
- Facilitate the acquisition, disbursement, repayment and adequate and up-to-date records on company’s bank facilities through a two-way communication platform between the Managing Director, Operations Manager and relevant officers of the issuing bank.
- Substantiate financial transactions by auditing documents.
- Prepare payments by verifying documentation, and requesting disbursements.
- Comply with the statutory financial legal requirements and advising management on critical and essential actions to taken.
- Manage, keep records, and ensure that the company meets its statutory Tax and Social Security obligations.
- Analysing data collected in order to determine the state of the company’s financial health, and to understand where the company is generating and losing revenue and advice management accordingly
- Resolve accounting discrepancies and recommend to management appropriate expenditure control measures.
- Other job related duties that may be assigned by management from time to time.
- Secure financial information by completing data base backups (hard copy & soft copy) and ensure all such information remain strictly confidential.
Required Skills or Experience
- Self-motivation
- Integrity
- Ability to reflect on one's own work as well as the wider consequences of financial decisions
- business acumen and interest
- Organisational skills and ability to manage deadlines
- Teamworking ability
- Communication and interpersonal skills
- Proficiency in IT
- Analytical ability
- A methodical approach and problem-solving skill
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Job purpose:
- Administer appropriate accounting practices to facilitate efficient and productive financial management practices for the company. Provide financial information to management by researching and analyzing accounting data.
Key Responsibilities:
- Prepare and review budget, revenue, expense, payroll entries, and other accounting documents and submit copies to the Managing Director for discussion.
- Prepare financial assets, liabilities, and capital account entries by compiling and analyzing account information.
- Undertake a monthly Reconciliation exercise on all the company’s Bank Accounts which must involve account balance shown on bank statements, deposits in transit, outstanding checks etc and submit feedback/advice to the Managing Director.
- Facilitate the acquisition, disbursement, repayment and adequate and up-to-date records on company’s bank facilities through a two-way communication platform between the Managing Director, Operations Manager and relevant officers of the issuing bank.
- Substantiate financial transactions by auditing documents.
- Prepare payments by verifying documentation, and requesting disbursements.
- Comply with the statutory financial legal requirements and advising management on critical and essential actions to taken.
- Manage, keep records, and ensure that the company meets its statutory Tax and Social Security obligations.
- Analysing data collected in order to determine the state of the company’s financial health, and to understand where the company is generating and losing revenue and advice management accordingly
- Resolve accounting discrepancies and recommend to management appropriate expenditure control measures.
- Other job related duties that may be assigned by management from time to time.
- Secure financial information by completing data base backups (hard copy & soft copy) and ensure all such information remain strictly confidential.
Required Skills or Experience
- Self-motivation
- Integrity
- Ability to reflect on one's own work as well as the wider consequences of financial decisions
- business acumen and interest
- Organisational skills and ability to manage deadlines
- Teamworking ability
- Communication and interpersonal skills
- Proficiency in IT
- Analytical ability
- A methodical approach and problem-solving skill