The Senior Accountant will perform various accounting, servicing, coordinating, support and relationship management activities to assist with the day-to-day duties of accounting services for a portfolio of Client Services clients that is assigned to him/her.
The Senior Accountant will be expected to:
- take full personal ownership, responsibility and accountability of all transactions, interaction and enquiries for the allocated Client panel. This will include, but not be limited to
- providing day-to-day bookkeeping, accounting and other services to allocated clients from various jurisdictions,
- preparing interim reports, asset schedules, management accounts and statutory annual accounts in accordance with applicable accounting standards,
- assisting other team members and review their work where appropriate and when requested by the Team Leader/Manager,
- carrying out, on a timely basis, all administrative tasks assigned to him/her by the Team Leader/Manager,
- applying standard procedures to facilitate the rendering of quality services to clients in a consistent, effective and efficient manner and exercising quality control to ensure that all accounting reports conform to set standards,
- assisting to ensure that clients’ files (be it electronic or paper based) are organised, complete and up to date,
- recording all time spent accurately to facilitate invoicing and internal reporting,
- assisting with training of team members as and when required,assisting with the preparation of clients’ income tax on e-Filing portal, assisting with tax clearance certificates, processing provisional tax calculations and submissions, and dealing with clients’ tax enquiries be it about objections or general tax matters,
- additional duties may be assigned from time to time, as required;
- follow processes and procedures, working according to set quality standards and keeping to agreed turn-around times, on a daily basis;
- ensure that all customer and audit queries and/or complaints are dealt with efficiently and timeously, and escalate immediately where needed;
- develop, build and maintain sound relationships with allocated Client panel, relevant stakeholders., ensure the highest level of service, quality of work and support to all stakeholders, liaise with relevant stakeholders to promote clear channels of communication and working relationships;
- actively look for strategic opportunities to improve operational efficiencies.;
- promote the implementation and integration of electronic service usage within the Accounting and Tax Service centre, Proactively and positively manage internal and external expectations specially during transitional periods.
- meeting of personal (KPI) and team targets;
- Assist with projects in the service centre as they arise; provide team support to all areas to create a combined centre of excellence; and
- Ensure to demonstrate the company's values on a daily basis.
- Ensure compliance to the Company’s code of conduct and ethics is always adhered to.
Risk Management:
- Responsible for identifying and reporting risk in the Accounting and Tax Services team, by reviewing processes and ensuring that these adequate controls are in place to mitigate risk.
Profile:
- ACCA
- 4 years of experience at least