Financial Accountant - LCIBS/Uni4 Online at London College of International Business studies

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB:   

• To ensure the efficient and effective functioning of the various people and processes within the finance department.
• Provide staff supervision and training.
• Preparation and processing of monthly journal entries and management accounts.
• Enforcing and implementation of policies and procedure. 

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS:

Staff Supervision:

• Provides leadership and direction to the Creditors /Bookkeepers / Cashbook.
• Meets weekly with staff to provide regular feedback on individual performance.
• Provides role clarity to staff and makes recommendations to the Financial Manager for tools to facilitate performance.
• Makes recommendations to Financial Manager on staff training and development plans.
• Acts as a Coach and Mentor to staff.

Monthly Reconciliations, Journal processing and Reporting on Management Accounts:   

• Reconcile monthly revenue and debtors
• Reconcile monthly salaries and wages.
• Prepares and processes month end journals, including deferred revenue, depreciation adjustments and forex gains or losses
• Prepares other monthly balance sheet and income statement reconciliations.
• Reviews and authorises creditor reconciliations and payment requisitions on an ad-hoc basis.
• Maintains month end file with all relevant reconciliations and supporting documents.
• Completes all fixed asset transactions, including verifications, recording and updating of GL and FAR.
• Reviews Fixed Asset Register on a monthly basis.
• Completes all inventory transactions, including annual stock-counts, recording and updating of GL and stock-ledgers.

Budgeting, Monitoring and Control:

• Prepares information for year-end audit purposes.
• Prepares financials annually.
• Prepares budgets and forecasts.
• Oversees the functioning of the Bookkeeping function including review and authorisation of all reconciliations, schedules, invoices, journals etc prepared by the Bookkeeper.
• Ensures finance policies and procedures are adhered to by all individuals within finance and outside of finance.
• Provides ideas and feedback to help improve efficiencies in processes and procedures. -
• Attends to ad-hoc requests and providing assistance in other areas which may not be directly part of job description above. Stands in for the Financial Manager when required to.
• Completes all fixed asset transactions, including verifications, recording and updating of GL and FAR.
• Processes Fixed Asset Register on a monthly basis.
• Completes all inventory transactions, including annual stock-counts, recording and updating of GL and stock-ledgers.

REQUIREMENTS OF THE JOB:

• Degree with articles.
• 2-3 years’ relevant experience in accounting environment.
• Sage 300 exposure.
• Advanced Excel knowledge.
• Africa exposure

COMPETENCIES OF THE JOB:

• Good Leadership skills. The ability to engage and motivate team members.
• Technical acumen with a high degree of accuracy and analytical ability to identify trends.
• Good Interpersonal skills at diverse levels.
• Great attention to detail.
• Ability to work in a Team.