What you will do
General Ledger reconciliations & schedule review:
- Improve GL schedules (reconciliations) monthly.
- Engage with relevant stakeholders to gather information to ensure meaningful reconciliation of GL accounts.
- Provide actionable insights through schedules to pre-empt issues and take timely action to drive resolution of issues.
- Review trends, identify patterns & opportunities to strengthen controls.
- Standardize schedules and follow a quality review process.
- Follow IFRS/IAS and AFG policies in the accounting process.
Monthly / Yearly books closing and business support:
- Review recurring provision, accruals of expenses and amortization.
- Validate amortization and provision entries.
- Identify and review accounting entries that require reclassification. Post reclassification entries, cost allocations and any other entries required as per standard checklist.
- Follow checklists and ensure compliance.
- Identify gaps in checklist and report new entries/edits to line manager.
- Submit relevant accounting information/data monthly, to facilitate AFG consolidation using the Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) tool.
- Review BSS BPC data for the entire Company handled by JH covering every single GL a/c, identify gaps, misses not limited to R2R but covering all Towers.
- Co-ordinate with external auditors and ensure timely submission of documentation and information.
Intercompany accounts monitoring:
- Review related party accounts and identify mismatches.
- Produce actionable insights and share with stake holders.
- Engage with business unit finance teams to drive resolutions.
Skills
Required skills to be successful
- Good knowledge of accounting practices in compliance with IFRS/IAS
- Have a very good understanding of what it takes to prepare financial statements and the ultimate impact of accounting on the income statement, statement of cashflow, and the statement of financial position.
- Ability to analysis financial data using a variety of tools, including but not limited to MS Excel.
- Analytical, process oriented
- Well organized, with excellent communication skills, a team player
- Should possess a good knowledge of excel and have prior experience in working with large databases.
- (Preferably SAP) and BPC
What equips you for the role
- Bachelor’s degree in accountancy/ACCA/CMA (or similar qualification)
- 5-7 years in a similar role with hands on experience using ERP systems.