Accounting Officer - Accounts Payables & GL

To ensure an accurate position of the Accounts Payables – Local Trade Payables and Assigned General Ledger Accounts in the Financial Statements

POSITION:                           Accounting Officer– Accounts Payables & GL

REPORTS TO:                       ACCOUNTANT – Accounts Payables &GL

SUPERVISION GIVEN TO:   N/A

PURPOSE:                             To ensure an accurate position of the Accounts Payables – Local Trade Payables and Assigned General Ledger Accounts in the Financial Statements

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITES:

• Accurately prepare and enter Costings in the General Ledger timely to ensure the accurate valuation of Inventory in the Financial statements.

• Reconcile accurately and timely multiple General Ledger Accounts including the GRN Accrual to ensure accurate Financial reporting of Trade Liability.

• Enter accurately and timely multiple supplier invoices and credit notes to ensure accurate Payments and Financial Statements reporting.

• Submit Supplier payments timely (within agreed Credit terms) and accurately to ensure for good Supplier relations and Cash flow control.

• Reconcile timely and accurately multiple supplier statements and the subledger to ensure good supplier relations, and accurate Financial Statements reporting.

• Investigate and escalate any discrepancies with Suppliers statements and payments to ensure good supplier relations, and accurate Financial Statements reporting.

• Enter multiple vouchers coming from multiple departments to ensure accuracy with Expense reporting on the Financial statements.

• Managed aged invoices to not be past 3 months to allow for good supplier relations and accurate Liability reporting.

• Prepare and enter multiple journals for the timely and accurate update of monthly Financial statements.

• Prepare accurately and timely multiple monthly Accruals to ensure accurate accounting and reporting as per Financial standards.

• Perform any other related duty that may be assigned to you by your management line to ensure effective operation of the department

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE / EDUCATION

• ACCA Level 1

• Certificate in Microsoft Office Suite

• One year similar experience

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND OTHER ABILITIES

• Must be organized, detail-oriented, persistent and committed, able to cope well in stress-related environments

• Ability to perform analyses on numerical data and accounting information

• Working knowledge of accounting software

• Able to work efficiently with minimal supervision

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• Ability to work well in a team