The Accountant shall be responsible for the management accounts of the company & its subsidiaries, by ensuring that the accounts reflect a true depiction of the company performance, that information meets the accounting standards, supervise staff and ensure adherence to all internal controls.
1. Management of Accounts:
- Prepares monthly management account to be submitted by set deadline.
- Provides financial statements for profit and loss accounts and balance sheets.
- Liaise with internal auditors
- Prepare & reconcile monthly and yearly tax returns
- Analyses the overall positioning of the organisation in relation to budget
2. Cash Flow and payments
- Ensures the timely payment of bills.
- Ensures cash flow for payment through e-banking.
- Calculates financial performance ratios.
- Reports sales and debtors payment regularly to the Group Head of Shared Services & Group Credit and Collections Manager.
- Ensure that Purchase Orders are issued upon request for required suppliers.
3. External Audit
- Assist the External Audit with respect to activities carried out for Companies managed at Group level.
- Foresee impacts of new accounting standards and major transactions on Group Accounts and communicate with external auditors on their impact.
- Ensure that audit files for the company are prepared well before the arrival of auditors.
- Prepare the audited financial statement and notes for the accounts of the company.
- Compute the deferred tax of the company.
4. Consolidation Account
- Preparation of monthly, quarterly and yearly Group Consolidation including intercompany reconciliation and adjustments
- Reconciliation of Associates, Non-Controlling Interests and Reserves
- Prepares accurate Group Primary Statements including Profit and Loss statements, Balance Sheets, Cash Flow Statements and Statements of Equity on a quarterly and yearly basis
- Preparation of Group notes to Accounts and Group Statutory Financial Statements on a yearly basis
- Preparation of Group Consolidated Budget on a yearly basis and Group forecasts on a quarterly basis
- Follow up for any Impairment Assessment with BUs and do necessary entries in the books
- Follow up for any Property / Investments Revaluations with BUs and do necessary entries in the books