Accounting Manager

Job Description

• Monitor and analyze accounting data and produce financial reports and statements.
• Manage and oversee the daily operations of the accounting department including: month and end-year process accounts payable/receivable cash receipts general ledger payroll and utilities treasury, budgeting cash forecasting revenue and expenditure variance analysis capital assets reconciliations trust account statement reconciliations, check runs fixed asset activity debt activity
• Establish and enforce proper accounting methods, policies, and principles.
• Coordinate and complete annual audits.
• Cash management (including placement/movement of funds in various accounts).
• Comply with legal and statutory regulations (handling of taxation e.g. income tax, VAT, etc).
• Provide recommendations.
• Improve accounting & operations systems and procedures and initiate corrective actions.
• Assign projects and direct staff to ensure compliance and accuracy.
• Meet financial accounting objectives.
• Establish and maintain fiscal files and records to document transactions.
• Analyze financial discrepancies and recommend effective resolutions.
• Review all Accountants’ tasks, provide guidance and support whenever needed.
• Review and recommend changes to the existing accounting procedures.
• Perform a full set of accounts and ensure timely closing of accounts.
• Meets accounting financial objectives by forecasting requirements, preparing an annual budget, scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances, initiating corrective actions.
• Confirms financial status by monitoring revenue and expenses, coordinating the collection, consolidation, and evaluation of financial data, preparing special reports.
• Maintains accounting controls by establishing a chart of accounts, defining accounting policies and procedures.
• Guides other departments by researching and interpreting accounting policy, applying observations and recommendations to operational issues.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor degree in Accounting
• SAP experience is a must
• Monitor and analyze accounting data and produce financial reports or statements
• Establish and enforce proper accounting methods, policies and principles
• Coordinate and complete annual audits
• Provide recommendations
• Improve systems and procedures and initiate corrective actions
• Assign projects and direct staff to ensure compliance and accuracy
• Meet financial accounting objectives
• Establish and maintain fiscal files and records to document transactions