Qualifications:
• Degree in Accounts, ACCA, CPA or Masters

Experience:
• 6 years plus

Primary Responsibilities:
• Collate all accounting data ready for posting.
• Daily posting of purchase, bills payable, petty cash payments and bankings.
• Follow standard accounting procedures and company guidelines at all times and in all cases.

Review source documents for accuracy, completeness, correctness and consistency.
• Do weekly reconciliations of all bank accounts provided.
• Make monthly bank reconciliation statements.

Secondary Responsibilities
• Reconcile creditors’ accounts and expense accounts and submit them to finance manager.
• Compute taxes owed and prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting and other tax requirements.

Maintain tables of accounts codes and assign entries to proper accounts.
• Assist in developing, maintaining, and analyzing budgets, preparing periodic reports that compare budgeted costs to actual costs.

Prepare forms and manuals for accounting and bookkeeping subordinates, and direct their work activities.
• Survey operations to ascertain accounting needs and to recommend, develop, and maintain solutions to business and financial problems.
• Advise the finance manager about issues such as resource utilization, tax strategies, and the assumptions underlying budget forecasts.
• Assist in internal and external auditing services for businesses and individuals.
• Advise staff in areas such as design of accounting and data processing systems, and long-range tax and company plans.

Investigate complex financial transactions and prepare reports summarizing the findings.
• Appraise, evaluate, and inventory real property and equipment, recording information such as the property’s description, value, and location.
• To understand, Implement and maintain all ISO systems in the company.
• Perform any other duties as they may be assigned

Authority:
• Reports to the Finance Manager

Interfaces: (titles of people you deal with, e.g., from other departments, sections, customers)
• Trade debtor and creditors
• Administration manager

Health, Safety and Environmental responsibilities and Ethics:
• Ensure cleanliness in and around the workplace.
• Enforce PPE usage by employees in the plant at all times.
• Guidance and on-the job training of workers especially new ones in good environmental maintenance and safer working procedures in order to reduce occupational accidents.
• Assist management to identify resources required to improve EHS in the company.
• Ensure good housekeeping in the plant i.e., immediate cleaning of coolants and oil spillages, emptying of waste bins, shift of scrap from respective workplace.
• Ensure proper use of waste bins and their availability at the designated respective locations in the plant
• Assist in taking corrective actions for any EHS deficiencies identified during audits or day to day observations
• Help casualties get immediate medical attention and also work closely with HR and systems coordinator during accidents/incident investigations
• Facilitate security of company staff and property.
• Promote health and safety at the workplace.
• Encourage teamwork for the purpose of a smooth and prosperous management
• Help create a culture and atmosphere of hard work and high personal integrity.
• Safeguard the company’s systems and Terms and Conditions of employment.