The Senior Accountant accountable for monitoring the progress of projects, investigating variances, approving expenses, and ensuring that project billings are issued to customers and payments collected. The position also involves all day-to-day functions required in the business within the finance department.
Qualifications and Key Skills:
• Qualified Accountant plus five years accounting experience in the architecture / design / construction industry or similar environment.
• Excellent written, verbal (English) and interpersonal communication skills; ability to read and interpret complex documents such as contractual documents.
Responsibilities:
• Create and maintain all related project accounts in the accounting system.
• Create and maintain project-related records, including drawdown schedule, variation orders, invoices and statement of accounts.
• Maintain Company’s accounting systems and procedures and ensure they are up-to-date and in compliance with all applicable statutory and regulatory requirements.
• Assist with preparation of annual budgets, financial plans, business plans, feasibility studies and all other financial and business documents as may be required from time to time.
• Foster effective working relationships with external auditors and ensure findings and recommendations are addressed promptly.
• Assist with managing and tracking company’s funds, assets and investments and periodically issue reports on its current as well as projected financial stability.
• Assist with the daily operations of Company’s finance function including accounting and risk management.
• Ensure accurate and timely reports are provided to the management to ensure compliance with applicable financial reporting standards and statutory regulations.
• Initiate the transfer of expenses into and out of project-related accounts
• Review and approve supplier invoices related to a project
• Review account totals related to project assets and expenses
• Investigate project variances and submit variance reports to management
• Follow up with customers regarding unpaid contract billings
• Report on project status to management as necessary
• Report to line manager on any opportunities for additional billings
• Report to line manager regarding the remaining amounts available for projects
• Create all project-related billings to customers
• Investigate and follow up on all project expenses not billed to customers
• Respond to requests for more detail from customers
• Identify and process write offs of any project-related billings that cannot be billed to or collected from customers
• Close out project accounts upon project completion
• Compile information for external auditors as required
• Maintenance of GL accounts, Debtor Accounts, Creditor Accounts and project files.
• Any general day-to-day accounting functions as required. (e.g. Cashbooks, Asset Management, Petty Cash, etc)
• Prepare and submit month government returns (VAT, WHT, Monthly Payroll Taxes)
• Prepare Balance Sheet reconciliations on a monthly basis.
