- Collaborating with other internal departments to gather relevant financial data.
- Receiving, verifying, recording, and filing suppliers’ invoices and ensuring suppliers’ ledgers are reconciled regularly.
- Updating filing systems and/or devising new efficient and effective filing and storage systems for financial data and documents as needed.
- Assisting in general ledger accounting and month-end close processes ensuring integrity and accuracy of financial information.
- Monitoring payroll expense claims, including salary advances and overtime payments.
- Performing regular analysis of operating expenses accounts and providing to the planning and analysis team commentaries on changes in the accounts,
- Accurately recording banking transactions (payments and receipts) in the cashbook in a timely manner ensuring proper descriptions for transactions for ease of retrieval
- Engaging with the reconciliation team to ensure that all reconciling items are addressed and adjusted in a timely manner.
- Recording of petty cash transactions and ensuring reconciliation of petty cash wallet as a prerequisite for replenishment and at month/year-end
- Performing reconciliations for allocated P&L and balance sheet ledgers monthly and escalating irregularities noted for correction/adjustment in a timely manner.
- Ensuring timely identification, recording, valuation, accounting, reporting and capitalization of capital expenditures (fixed assets and intangibles) as well as capital work-in-progress.
- Assistance with external and internal audits including coordination of information and documents required and various auditor queries and analysis.
- Collaborating with the supply chain team for timely tracking of fixed assets to be capitalized and produce succinct reports on the same monthly.
- Pinpoint areas of improvement in existing internal controls and advise on ways to improve. Providing ad hoc financial reporting, other duties and project work as may be assigned by the supervisor.
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- A Degree in Finance or Accounting, Economics, management, or related field,
- A minimum of 2 to 4 years of experience in accounting, finance, external audit, and
related field, - Professional qualifications such as CPA or ACCA would be an added advantage,