FSSC GL Accountant
FSSC GL Accountant
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Job Description
Job Purpose
To implement and manage the general accounting function by ensuring accurate reflection of the financial position complying with all legal and internal requirements and providing a sound basis for management interpretation.
- Perform month end transactional activities e.g. review of adjustments month-end closing procedures and recon preparation etc.
- Provide first level support in terms of call and query handling across AEL
- Perform selected bank reconciliations
- Review approve and post predefined manual journal entries and support documentation and narration to journal (ensure journal entries are valid accurate and complete)
- Reconcile balance sheet accounts within an SLA timeline and follow up on long outstanding items with Retain Finance.
- Prepare a monthly memorandum of balance sheet recon issues for review by the in-country team or Retaine Finance.
- Maintain an issue log of business activities where you have identified key concerns.
- Have a quarterly meeting with the in-country team or Retain Finance for re-education of key governance processes and also addressing key concern areas.
- Align with COE on GL master data maintenance
- Capture loading of EFT payments i.e. non-vendor related payments
- Release of EFT payments (not for the same country for which you have loaded payments)
- Process of non-vendor related payments in SAP
- Conduct cash book processing and bank reconciliation preparation
- Ensure all long outstanding and reconciling items on bank reconciliation are timeously cleared
- Engage with stakeholders at an operational level to address any service delivery issues
- Comply with all legislation relating to accounting matters
- Identify internal control weaknesses and assist in developing and implementing improvement opportunities
- Review audit instructions and compile/prepare supporting documentation for the audit process
- Excellent organisational and time management skills
- Excellent communication
- Problem solving skills
- Analytical and Conceptual;
- Communication (written and verbal);
- Relationship Building;
- Multi-tasking
Qualifications & Experience
- B Com Financial Accounting or equivalent qualification
- 3 5 years experience as an Accountant or equivalent (with Supervisory experience)
- Articles (Advantageous)
- Manufacturing Industry (advantageous)
- Advanced knowledge of the MS Office Suite especially MS Excel and Word
- Sound knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
- Knowledge of an ERP system preferably SAP ECC6
Employment Type
Full-Time
