Financial Accountant
· Ensures compliance with applicable accounting and corporate policies and ensure that entries are recorded in compliance with the policies and accounting standards.
· Implement and ensure adherence to internal control processes.
· Monitors the month-end close and the preparation of month-end management accounts
· Ensure that financial statements are generated for the holding companies, operating companies and all affiliates.
· Familiar with a variety of accounting concepts, practices, and procedures.
· Ensure completeness, accuracy, time lines, accessibility and consistency objectives are met and that the books comply with accounting policies and procedures.
· Identify and recommend necessary changes in financial policies and procedures to optimize effective and efficient reporting:
· Maintain operational policies and allocation of responsibility.
· Accounting Professional to provided detailed daily reporting after proper review and analysis, to allow him to report effectively
· Work with the Accounting Team leaders to manage workload and allocation of staff
· Ensure that there are adequate programs in place for staff training and education
· Support training and on boarding processes as appropriate
· Supervision over the function within the department for which they are responsible for, being general accounting, property accounting, cost accounting, and budgetary controls.
· Ensure that detailed processes are in place,
· Monitor and manage adherence to the process,
· Review all aspects of the process and not only review the end product
· Submission of accurate and complete Budgets and Forecasts on a monthly basis by the last day of the month
· Submission of Detailed Cost Analysis Reports with cost analysis projections on a quarterly basis
· Preparation of Cost Control Reports and Variance Analysis
· Review Trial Balance
· Ensure that Cash Budgets and Forecast [URL Disabled] positions are prepared on time.
· Conduct a variance analysis on a weekly basis and provide management with a detailed analysis of changes and the reasons therefore.
· Maintain banking relationships and negotiate terms with banks under the strict supervision of the executive directors.
· Chartered Accountant