The Senior Accountant, under the supervision of National Finance Manager, is responsible for overseeing for existence of sufficient documentation of all financial transactions and recording of those transaction on finance database.

Duties and responsibilities

• Plans, directs, co-ordinates and lead the team working under him/her on the day to day operation at the office:
• Provide support and share technical financial experiences for junior staffs:
• Ensure for existence of sufficient financial documentation to all transactions before recording:
• Ensure proper implementation and compliance of company policies and procedures in place:
• Design and recommend process control improvement plans:
• Liaise with the National Finance Manager to maintain appropriate classification of codes for different kinds of transactions:
• Assist and supervise posting of all relevant transaction documents on the various control and subsidiary ledger accounts:
• Ensure the existence of daily (timely) posting of transactions is maintained.
• Ensure the correctness and completeness of all entries to assets, liabilities, capital revenue and expense ledger accounts:
• Verifies that expenditures are justified, properly prepared and signed, and charged to the correct expense accounts:
• Ensure all balances maintained by control ledger are in agreement with the related subsidiary ledgers:
• Ensure the monthly computer extraction statements of all creditors (Vendors) individual balances are in agreement with the control balance:
• Ensure the monthly computer extraction statements of all Staff individual balances are in agreement with the control balance:
• Ensure existence of complete and updates journal voucher register books;
• Ensure adequate provisions (Accruals) have been provided for utilities, telephone, transportation services etc…
• Maintain prepayments schedule and make sure for the existence of proper monthly amortization of all prepayments:
• Extracts and prepares schedule of account payable balances and aging payables upon request by management:
• liaise with other unit team to agree tax ledgers’ balances against subsequent settlements:
• Assists external auditors in providing the necessary documents as required by the auditors:
• Performs other related duties as required by the supervisor:                                                                                                                                                          Competences                                                                                                                     
• Must be able to work under pressure, meet deadlines, while maintaining a positive attitude and providing exemplary customer service

Qualifications and Requirement

• Degree in Accounting /Finance
• Excellent knowledge of Peachtree Accounting Software
• Excellent computer proficiency

Experience

• 5 Years work experience