Accountant

This person must be ACCA Qualified accountant who is able to prepare balance sheets, profit and loss statements and other financial reports.

Duration: 6 (six) months

Overview:

Responsibilities also include analyzing trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments and obligations incurred to predict future revenues and expenses. Reports organization's finances to the Executive, General Council and Conference of Delegates and offers suggestions about resource utilization, tax strategies and assumptions underlying budget forecasts.

Responsibilities:

• Prepare asset, liability and capital account entries by compiling and analyzing account information
• Document financial transactions by entering account information
• Recommend financial actions by analyzing accounting options
• Summarize current financial status by collecting information, preparing balance sheet, profit and loss statement and other reports
• Substantiate financial transactions by auditing documents
• Maintain accounting controls by preparing and recommending policies and procedures
• Guide accounting clerical staff by coordinating activities and answering questions
• Reconcile financial discrepancies by collecting and analyzing account information
• Secure financial information by completing database backups
• Verify, allocate, post and reconcile transactions
• Produce error-free accounting reports and present their results
• Analyze financial information and summarise financial status
• Provide technical support and advice on financial management
• Review and recommend modifications to accounting systems and procedures
• Participate in financial standards setting and in forecast process
• Provide input into department's goal setting process
• Prepare financial statements and produce budgets
• Liaise with external auditors
• Plan, assign and review staff's work
• Support month-end and year-end close process
•  Develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls
• Communicate with Reporting Officers/Executive on work status and issues that arise
• Develops and implements financial and accounting systems to provide records of assets, liabilities and financial transactions.
• Advises on matters such as financial policies and investments portfolios.
• Supervises activities of personnel in areas such as cash disbursements, purchases, salaries/wages and taxes to ensure maintenance of proper accounting records.
• Monitors expenditure or credit issued on work in progress to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
• Ensure compliance with laws, regulatory bodies and accounting standards.
• Prepares or reviews tax returns.
• Plans, coordinates and conducts audits of records and procedures.
• Conducts financial investigations into matters such as suspected fraud, use of working capital and deviation from budgets.
•  Prepares and certifies Financial Reports and Statements for presentation to the Executive and General Council.
• Plans and administers computerized accounting systems for the Association and advise on related matters.
• Processes Payroll and other remuneration for Executive Officers.
• Any other related duties that may be assigned from time to time to ensure the effective and efficient operations of the Department

Qualifications:

• ACCA certified
• Minimum of seven (7) years’ relevant accounting experience, managing an accounting department.
• Strong working knowledge of IFRS and statutory reporting requirements.
• Experience using Sage 50 Accounting and HR Plus Software.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel.