Chief Accountant

To ensure that the Finance Department provides a professional financial support service to the company, its senior managers, and subsidiaries in a timely accurate, and relevant manner.

- To ensure all financial transactions are recorded and processed in compliance with the agreed internal control framework in a timely and accurate manner.

- To ensure management accounts, annual financial statements are prepared to agreed timescales supported by appropriate reconciliations; including profit and loss, balance sheet, and cash flow statements.

- Comprehensive monthly balance sheet reconciliations for each balance sheet item.

- Manage, lead, and develop the finance team.

- Develop, review, and maintain financial policies and procedures.

- Assist the purchase manager to enter and receive the international purchase orders into the system on time.

- Monthly payment reconciliation of customer & supplier account

- Assist the Manager in the annual budget setting process.

- Manage the annual audit process; liaise with external auditors to audit completion, and completion of external audit within agreed deadline.

- Produce draft financial accounts pack and related schedules for annual external audit.

- Liaise with all internal and external stakeholders; departmental heads, suppliers, customers, bank, external and internal auditors.

- Excellent knowledge of IFRS; monitor and advice on changes in accounting standards, and impact on financial reporting.

- Ensure all statutory and other returns are completed accurately, within set deadlines and payments made in accordance with time limits.

- Attend all relevant internal and external meetings as required and directed by the Manager

-Preparing the monthly payroll

- Any other duties assigned by the Reporting Head.

- Following with the sales stuff and customers for payment collection on time

- Following customer audit credit control