ESSENTIALS RESPONSIBILITIES

Payments, data entry, and reconciliations

• Verify authenticity, completeness, and accuracy of supporting evidence from suppliers and prepare payment instructions.
• Ensure proper filing.
• Bookkeep payrolls and ensure that payroll liabilities accounts are cleared.
• Reconcile accounts receivable, accounts payables, Expenses, and Income Accounts and make relentless follow-up to keep aging low.
• Reconcile and clear suspense accounts daily.
• Liaise with other concerned departments for any un-cleared item.

Taxation

• Compute and file tax returns namely VAT, withholding tax, and income tax in line with applicable rulings.
• Ensure filed tax returns agree with the book of accounts balances and clear any imbalances after thorough reconciliation and investigations.

Grants management

• Ensure grant records in accounting software are up to date in line with grant covenants.
• Prepare financial reports for submission to donors and grant coordinators.
• Ensure that all payments for any grants are assigned to the due grants.
• Assist auditors hired by donors or the bank in their audit endeavor and responsibly meet their demands.
• Meet any queries from donors or other partners.

Fixed Asset Management

• Update asset register with acquisition, disposal, and depreciation/amortization.
• Prepare an assets movement schedule that agrees with balances in the book of accounts.
• Ensure that all assets are with the correct custodians as per the schedules in their offices and conduct physical verification to agree physical assets with data in the asset register.
• Ensure that the tag for tangible assets is updated and accurately reflected in asset management software.
• Keep a close liaison with department with the custodian of fixed assets to timely dispose or retire any fixed assets definitively withdrawn from use.
• Participate in the auction process of fixed assets and other redundant assets upon management approvals.

Financial reports and accountability

• Actively participate in daily and periodic preparation of bank financial reports by ensuring that economic data are fairly stated through reconciliations and review.
• controlling income and expenditure.
• Perform any other related duties as necessary or assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Have a strong mastery of accounting principles and concepts to maximize the integrity of financial records.
• Excellent skills in the use of spreadsheets mainly Excel.
• Having good attention to detail.
• Be deadline-oriented and ready to work under pressure to strictly meet deadlines as imposed by external stakeholders or internal timeframe of duties.
• Be capable of maintaining strong internal controls during duty discharge to prevent financial, legal, operational, and other perceivable
• Be result-oriented and live Christian values of humility and customer care.

Minimum Education and Experience

• University Degree in accounting or business-related subject
• Pursuing a CPA or ACCA will be a plus.