Junior Accountant / Supervisor

Supports daily accounting operations, supervises clerks, and ensures accurate bookkeeping, reporting, and compliance.

Junior Accountant/ Supervisor 

The Junior Accountant/ Supervisor supports the Accountant with day to day operations, supervises the accounts clerks, and is responsible for executing bookkeeping tasks such as bank reconciliations and payout reviews. This role will support timely and accurate bookkeeping and reporting. 

Key Responsibilities 

Bookkeeping and Data Entry: Record financial transactions and maintain general ledger. 

Accounts Payable and Receivable: Review invoice and bill posting performed by clerks and reconcile monthly. 

Financial Reporting: Assist with preparing reports and related schedules. 

Reconciliations: Prepare bank reconciliations and app reconciliations and other relevant balance sheet reconciliations. Identify and address variances. 

Budgeting and Forecasting: Assist with accumulating data needed to prepare budgets and projections. 

Audits: Assisting with preparation of schedules, documents and requests from auditors. 

SOPs and Internal Controls: Provide support to junior staff where needed and review their data entry and payout calculations to ensure compliance with SOPs. 

Fixed Asset Register: Update register and calculate depreciation. 

Support: Providing assistance with various accounting tasks and projects as needed. 

Problem-solving: Assist with resolving internal variances and discrepancies and help guide junior staff when addressing external queries from Merchants, Customers, Drivers. 

Banking: Assist with preparing wire transfers and other bank documents. Updating weekly and monthly bank statements for posting and record keeping. 

Records Management: Assist with ensuring accounting records, both physical and cloud based, are properly maintained