FSSC General Accountant

Main Purpose of the Job

This role is designed 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.

Role and Responsibilities:

Financial Accounting 

• 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

Bank and cash management

• 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
• Process petty cash transactions
• Facilitate urgent payment requests
• Manage banking access (new profiles & deletions)
• Managing of banking related remedy calls in line with SLA i.e. Beneficiary verification and releasing.
• Reviewing and updating of EFT beneficiary listing in line with ICM requirements, bi-annual bank beneficiary verifications.

Relationship management

• Engage with stakeholders at an operational level to address any service delivery issues
• Ensure attendance of monthly governance meetings

Business controls and Governance

• Comply with all legislation relating to accounting matters
• Identify internal control weaknesses and assist in developing and implementing improvement opportunities
• Ensure compliance with SLA criteria (specific to area of responsibility)
• Keep abreast on legal and regulatory issues relating to accounting matters
• Comply with Safety, Health and Environment standards

Audit Coordination

• Review audit instructions and compile/prepare supporting documentation for the audit process
• Resolve audit queries and discuss with internal / external auditor where required

Qualifications & Experience:

• B Com Financial Accounting or equivalent qualification
• 3 – 5 years’ experience as an Accountant or equivalent (with Supervisory experience)
• Completed Articles will be Advantageous
• Manufacturing Industry preferred

Key Competencies:

• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Problem solving and analysis skills
• Coping with pressure and setbacks
• Actively works with colleagues to achieve common objectives
• Attention to detail

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