Purpose

The Accountant will be responsible for ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of financial reporting across assigned entities. This role plays a critical part in maintaining robust financial controls, managing statutory compliance, and supporting key accounting processes including month-end close, audits, and reconciliations. The ideal candidate will bring strong technical expertise, attention to detail, and a collaborative mindset to contribute to the financial health and operational efficiency of the organization.

Responsibilities

• Prepare monthly management accounts for assigned entities, including preparation of month end reconciliations.
• Manage financial reporting requirements across entities, liaising with external consultants to ensure all filing and reporting requirements are met.
• Ensure a robust system of internal controls operates over all transactions.
• Ensure a comprehensive month-end file is prepared and reviewed to support all balances held at the reporting date including detailed schedules for accruals, provisions and prepayments.
• Manage accounts receivables and payables processes to facilitate timely reconciliation, with any queries resolved quickly and efficiently.
• Administer employee expenses in an efficient and co-operative manner.
• Manage the statutory audit process, including liaison with third party providers for preparation of the accounts.
• Manage the submission of all VAT returns, ensuring they are filed on time.
• Responsible for daily bank reconciliations.
• Acts as a point of contact for all financial control related issues in assigned entities.
• Cross train in all areas of accounting process across different regions.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications and experience:

• A bachelor's degree in finance/accounting or related education is preferred
• A license as a Qualified Accountant (CA, ACA, CPA, or equivalent) is required
• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in a full cycle accounting role is required
• Proven experience with financial reporting requirements, general ledger functions and the month end/year end close processes and audits
• Demonstrated experience using SAP and IFRS
• Must be proficient in spoken and written English
• Basic knowledge of expense systems (SAP Concur or similar)
• Basic knowledge of other Reporting Tools (Power BI or similar)
• Intermediate knowledge of ERP systems (SAP or similar)
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook)