FSSC GL Accountant at AECI Limited

Job Description    

Job Purpose

• To implement and manage the general accounting function by ensuring accurate reflection of the financial position, complying with all legal and internal requirements, and providing a sound basis for management interpretation.
• Perform month end transactional activities e.g., review of adjustments, month-end closing procedures, and recon preparation etc.
• Provide first level support in terms of call and query handling across AEL
• Perform selected bank reconciliations
• Review, approve, and post predefined manual journal entries and support documentation and narration to journal (ensure journal entries are valid, accurate, and complete)
• Reconcile balance sheet accounts within an SLA timeline and follow up on long outstanding items with Retain Finance.
• Prepare a monthly memorandum of balance sheet recon issues for review by the in-country team or Retaine Finance.
• Maintain an issue log of business activities, where you have identified key concerns.
• Have a quarterly meeting with the in-country team or Retain Finance, for re-education of key governance processes and also addressing key concern areas.
• Align with COE on GL master data maintenance
• Capture loading of EFT payments i.e., non-vendor related payments
• Release of EFT payments (not for the same country for which you have loaded payments)
• Process of non-vendor related payments in SAP
• Conduct cash book processing and bank reconciliation preparation
• Ensure all long outstanding and reconciling items on bank reconciliation are timeously cleared
• Engage with stakeholders at an operational level to address any service delivery issues
• Comply with all legislation relating to accounting matters
• Identify internal control weaknesses and assist in developing and implementing improvement opportunities
• Review audit instructions and compile/prepare supporting documentation for the audit process

Excellent organisational and time management skills

• Excellent communication
• Problem solving skills
• Analytical and Conceptual;
• Communication (written and verbal);
• Relationship Building;
• Multi-tasking

Qualifications & Experience    

• B Com Financial Accounting or equivalent qualification
• 3 – 5 years’ experience as an Accountant or equivalent (with Supervisory experience)
• Articles (Advantageous) 
• Manufacturing Industry (advantageous)
• Advanced knowledge of the MS Office Suite – especially MS Excel and Word
• Sound knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
• Knowledge of an ERP system, preferably SAP ECC6

Closing Date    

• 2025/08/22