Among other things, the successful candidate will be responsible for the following:

• Maintains accounts to produce and provide timely and accurate accounting information.
• Review the monthly balance sheet reconciliation.
• Prepare and manage budgets and forecasts.
• Performs and monitors all expenditures, journal and ledger entries, bank statements, account activity, and other accounting and financial records.
• Prepares asset, liability, and capital account entries by compiling and analyzing account information.
• Recommends financial actions by analyzing accounting options.
• Summarizes current financial status by collecting information; preparing balance sheet, profit and loss statement, and other reports.
• Substantiates financial transactions by auditing documents.
• Maintains accounting controls by preparing and recommending policies and procedures.
• Maintains financial security by following internal controls.
• Reviewing and processing journals, plant hours, and procurement requisitions in JDE. Check monthly financial reports for accuracy and correctness.
• Liaison between head office, sites, and suppliers.
• Prepares payments by verifying documentation and requesting disbursements.
• Prepares special financial reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing account information and trends.
• Prepares and/or exercises control over the preparation of financial statements, estimates, summaries, financial analyses, management reports, and cost control reports for expense or funding problems.
• Ensure petty cash returns are in compliance with company policy and liaise with the site on queries. Assistance to the buying department with procurement and credit applications.
• Prepare cash flow reports
• Deal with finance-related queries when needed.
• Provides information and liaises with internal & external auditors.
• Enforce and ensure compliance with all company policies and procedures (i.e., procurement, petty cash, etc.)

 Fixed Asset management:

•       Regularly coordinate with the site managers to ensure that assets are adequately verified/transferred as per the agreed verification process.
• Travel to the regional offices from time to time to ascertain the internal controls around fixed assets
• Regularly review the Asset Management to ensure that it remains relevant for the organisation
• Ensure that the monthly fixed asset transactions are correctly and adequately recorded.
• Ensure that the monthly fixed asset register is correct, up to date, and ties to the general ledger.
• Manage Insurance cost/ recovery to ensure that fixed assets are adequately covered.        Ensure that the fixed assets for all projects are properly transferred, disposed in accordance with policies and procedures.
• Ensure that disposals and write of assets are correctly treated according to Accounting Standards.
•  Support the Head of Finance in implementing the annual asset management plan, including the verification process.
•   Participate in the assessment, development, and facilitation of financial literacy, reporting, monitoring, and related internal controls of fixed assets.