Job Description
• Prepare, examine, and analyze accounting records,
financial
statements, and other financial reports
to assess accuracy,
completeness, and
conformance to reporting and procedural standards.
• Analyze past and current trends in KPIs to enable accurate financial planning and decision making.
• Secure required financing for approved budget needs.
• Consolidate the financial results of the countries within the assigned region.
• Ensure compliance with all relevant accounting finance legal and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure the necessary control and financial risk management mechanisms are in place.
• Ensure all regional financial and accounting policies and procedures are aligned with company's strategies and standards.
• Ensure timely preparation of the financial statements and coordinates with external auditors.
• Build, lead and manage a team of accountants
• Responsible for accounting and finance
• Management of financial reports, consolidations, audits.
• Close supervision of all day to day and periodic Finance related process and reconciliations such as A/R, A/P, inventory, cash & bank and Payroll.
• Ensure accurate and Monthly performance review of all contracts against budget. Analyze actual and report variance to senior management.
• Participate in planning the objectives, methods and resources of financial operations.
• Smooth month end closing and reporting within the agreed timetable.
• Supervise the preparation of the weekly cash flow and monthly cost allocation sheets.
• Compute taxes owed and prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting and other tax requirements.
• Ensuring compliance with taxation legislation.
• Liaison with Bank on day to day basis, Handle Bank Guarantees, Reconciliations and provisions
• Fund Flow and Cash Flow operations
• Analyze business operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations, to project future revenues and expenses or to provide advice.
• Develop, implement, modify the accounting systems, making use of current computer technology.
• Follow accounting manual and adhere to the requirements whilst building up accounts.
• Survey operations to ascertain accounting needs and to recommend, develop, and maintain solutions to business and financial problems.
• Advise management about issues such as resource utilization, tax strategies, and the assumptions underlying accounting judgment.
• Work with internal and external auditing services.
• Advise employees in areas such as approval, payable and receivable processes, design of accounting and data processing systems, and long-range tax plans.
• Prepare reports summarizing findings if any
• Represent company before taxing authorities and provide support during litigation involving financial issues.
• Review of all subsidiary ledgers on monthly basis.
• Work Inter/Intra department/companies to resolve questions, inconsistencies, or missing data
• Review records and provide necessary adjustments based on information acquired
• Compiles, sorts and verifies the accuracy of data.
• Establish and maintain effective and efficient books of records
• Generates reports and responds to inquiries
• Contributes to a team effort
• Perform any job within or outside the scope of accounting
• Carry out multiple tasks and meet deadlines strict Month end closing deadlines
• Undertaking financial administration
• Liaising with managerial staff, colleagues, suppliers and customers
• Managing financial systems/policies
