Senior Accountant

Job Overview:

The Senior Accountant is responsible for overseeing day‑to‑day accounting operations, month-end closing activities, financial reporting compliance with IFRS, Taxation & compliance and payroll management.

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

Financial Reporting & Analysis:

• Prepare and review monthly financial statements -P&L, BS, CFS with comparative analysis against Actuals, Budget, Latest Estimates and LY.
• Ensure financial statements are accurate, timely, and IFRS-compliant.
• Prepare and review debtors ageing, accounts payable ageing and Working capital/Cash-conversion-cycles on monthly basis.
• Provide management with performance insights & variance analysis.

Day to Day Accounting Operations:

• Supervise accounting activities including data entry, documentation review, and transaction approvals and cash management.
• Ensure daily closing of petty cash, Daily cash collections/Daily sales reports (DSR) submission and Bank reconciliations.
• Prepare and submit daily reports required by the Head Office.
• Ensure compliance with internal controls and company financial policies.

General Ledger/ Month end & Year end Closing:

• Review and post journal entries, accruals, prepayments, and adjustments.
• Maintain GL accuracy and ensure proper classification of transactions.
• Lead the month end closing process ensuring accurate accruals, provisions, and reconciliations (Stock/bank/AR/AP/inter-company).
• Ensure all respective SAP modules are closed in a timely manner.
• To manage the Van stock reconciliation.

Accounts Receivables and Credit Control:

• To manage customer payment matching, reconciliations and ensure timely booking of credit notes and deduction invoices against the approved Trade spends and BDA.
• To do payment(collection) follow-ups as per the company’s credit policies and procedures.
• Track and analyze the Trade spend and submit monthly reports to Head office.

Taxation & Compliance:

• Quarterly VAT return filing and ensure VAT compliances.
• Corporate tax calculations and compliance
• Ensure all licenses, agreements and contracts are renewed and up to date.

Payroll Management:

• Oversee monthly payroll processing.
• Verify timesheets, allowances, deductions, EOSB calculations, and statutory compliance.
• Ensure accurate posting of payroll entries to the GL.

Other Responsibilities:

• Manage the office administration operations.
• Support internal and external audits.
• Support to IT development and projects connected with Finance and operations.
• Guide and mentor junior accounts team.
• Perform tasks, analysis, or projects assigned by management from time to time

Education Qualification and Experience:

• Bachelors or Masters Degree in Accounting/ Finance
• Minimum 5-8 years of experience in a similar role
• Experience working on SAP is an added advantage