Financial Accountant

Duties and Responsibilities:

* Ensure the finance team is a strategic partner to the business.
* Support the FM and CEO to deliver strategic initiatives.
* Full responsible for ensuring accurate financial record keeping.
* Responsible for ensuring accurate reconciliations between operational and accounting systems and all balance sheet reconciliations.
* Managing the year-end, interim and all month-end processes and reporting.
* Responsible for managing the external audit process.
* Provide feedback and address audit.
* Ensure applicable policies and processes are created, documented, reviewed, signed off and adhered to.
* Developing strategies to minimize financial risk.
* Support current Financial Account in monitoring daily cash balances and determine cash requirements needed.
* Responsible for providing direction and support on the organisational budgeting process applicable to all the entities of the company.
* Regularly review the overall organisational expenditure to ensure the expenditure of all entities remains within budget.

Key Skills
* Previous experience in multinational company will be advantageous.
* Good understanding of financial, tax and commercial legislation across multiple African territories.
* Experience in Accounting Software and Payroll Software.
* Advanced MS Excel skills.
* Numerical skills.
* High attention to detail (accuracy).
* Ability to deal with complex information and requests.
* Budget management.
* Business acumen - ability to work alongside the business.
* Confident and enthusiastic self-starter who can take initiative.
* Mature decision making.
* Emotional intelligence.