Administrative and Financial Manager - MADAGASCAR

The Finance and Administration Manager oversees financial operations, ensures compliance, manages cash flow, and prepares key financial reports to support management decisions.

This position is based in Madagascar, and the selected candidate will be required to work on-site in Madagascar.

Primary duties (non-exhaustive list):

• Prepare budget documents and all information documents related to budgetary decisions.

• Ensure that accounting transactions are properly recorded in the accounting books:

  • Perform all accounting data entry.

  • Prepare documents (dashboards) and procedures to enable analytical accounting.

  • Supervise the entry, reconciliation, and matching of customer and supplier accounting entries.

  • Check, record, and process expense claims.

  • Ensure the recording of payroll entries or the electronic transfer from the payroll system to the accounting system.

  • Perform bank reconciliations.

  • Ensure accurate recording of fixed asset accounting entries.

  • Verify the correct use of analytical coding during accounting entries.

• Manage cash flow:

  • Implement and monitor payment and collection management systems in coordination with the CFO.

  • Address cash flow observations/issues.

  • Prepare and verify cash flow statements.

• Prepare financial statements and summary documents:

  • Analyze general ledger accounts for provisions, fixed assets, and balance sheet items in order to prepare the supporting file for the year-end trial balance.

  • Calculate year-end provisions to be included in the balance sheet.

  • Record year-end inventory and adjustment entries to prepare financial statements.

  • Define the setup of analytical accounting adapted to the business activity and management/operational analysis needs.

  • Issue analytical reports highlighting key indicators and ratios.

  • Prepare the balance sheet and income statement.

• Prepare tax and social security declarations:

  • Review VAT entries.

  • Calculate taxable income and corporate income tax.

  • Prepare the tax return package and related schedules/appendices.

Skills and Knowledge

• Strong knowledge of local and international accounting standards (IAS/IFRS, UK-US GAAP).

• Knowledge of French taxation.

• Proficiency in IT tools and accounting software.

• Professional proficiency in English (written and spoken).