Senior Accountant

Role and responsibilities:

Operation & Reporting

• Review weekly payments on banks tools.
• Compute taxes owed and prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting and other tax requirements.
• On a timely basis report any tax, treasury, legal and accounting issues. Raise a flag regarding any irregularly, lack of compliance, lack of adherence, problems whether actual or potential concerning the financial systems, operations and any matter which could have a financial implication.
• Prepare/ review monthly journal entries and adjustments, including supporting documentation and appropriate descriptions.
• Ensure accurate and appropriate recording and analysis of accounts
• Assume complete responsibility for the processing of Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, cash management, and share responsibility for processing Payroll.
• Review monthly banks reconciliations.
• Review monthly trial Balance on the monthly close and ensure all the accounts are well explained.
• Review monthly balance sheet accounts reconciliations.
• Review monthly PL variance reports.
• Make sure that our banking mandates are up to date.

Other:

• Assist in development and implementation of new policies, procedures and tools to enhance the workflow of the department
• Support internal project to have process narrative documented and key preventive and detective controls in place for major financial cycles.
• Assists in the implementation of internal controls
• Maintain a checklist with all regular tax declarations and filings and compliance with local laws and regulations. Assists in managing tax audits
• Provide recommendations and perform other duties as assigned by the Accounting manager
• Provide training to new and existing staff as needed.
• Prepares and / or reviews ad hoc financial reporting requests, other analyses and special projects, as necessary
• Ensure implementing the policy “NO PO NO PAY”