Key Responsibilities
Financial Reporting
- Reviewing monthly supplier and customer reconciliations.
- Reviewing ERP master data forms for customers for accuracy.
- Ensuring monthly bank statement review, approval and filing.
- Performing monthly intercompany reconciliations.
Best – Practice Accounting procedures followed.
- Reviewing and approving Journal entries before posting to General Ledger.
- Preparing and reviewing monthly accruals are prepared and reviewed prior to posting in ERP
- Executing Month end and period-end tasks and activities (Balance Revaluation, FX adjustments in ERP, Period end close in ERP, Monthly and periodic physical count and verification (stocks and fixed assets)
- Ensuring all fixed assets are properly recorded and maintained in ERP
- Processing International Financial Reporting Standards adjustments to fixed assets bi-annually
- Ensuring all fixed assets acquisitions are properly authorized by the responsible office.
- Preparing annual Capex budget in consultation with Managing Director and the responsible office.
- Ensuring that cash flow forecasts are prepared monthly and weekly CICO
- Ensuring the Group’s “cash toolkit” is being competently managed and suggested improvements given to Financial Controller
- Analyzing insurance needs to cover assets & events leading to financial loss
- Advising insurers advised of changes that may affect risk
- Ensuring all bank and petty cash accounts are reconciled monthly to ensure accuracy
- Ensuring all payroll inter-company charges are processed in ERP
- Working in conjunction with business analysts during budget and LEs
- Submitting budget data into Prisma
Tax Management and Reporting
- Preparing monthly reporting for Tax submissions.
- Ensuring data submission of monthly reporting for Pernod Ricard Eastern Africa to relevant market tax portals and sites.
- Overseeing reconciliation of PRK accounts with KRA records and accounts.
- Ensuring that all tax obligations are met; Tax (Excise, VAT, CIT), Payroll, payments to group companies, and foreign exchange contract commitments
- Ensuring that all intercompany payment obligations are met including interest payments, capital repayments, and BO invoices.
- Assisting in preparing all tax returns for PRK in collaboration with the Financial Controller, auditors, and tax advisors
- Ensuring that half-yearly and annual tax calculations prepared are submitted timeously
- Ensuring that statutory returns are submitted timeously and reconciled periodically.
Internal Control Responsibilities.
- Adhering to all the internal control procedures of Pernod Ricard Eastern Africa
- Ensuring Internal controls are updated annually in compliance with Group requirements
- Ensuring the integrity of the master database for suppliers and customers
- Assisting the Financial Controller in risk mapping every two years
- Giving recommendations to Financial Controller on the improvement of processes and controls.
Stakeholders’ Relations
- Developing a collaborative relationship with internal stakeholders through cultivating an excellent transparent working relationship across PRG departments and with SSA senior finance team
- Collaborating with external stakeholders by ensuring ongoing communication with auditors, external advisors, company secretaries, banks, and other service providers as required.
- Liaising with government departments on statutory compliance issues as required
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, or another relevant field
- Four (4) years experience in Finance. Audit experience is an added advantage.
- Experience in the FMCG industry in Commercial Finance or Business Planning Analysis is preferred
- CPA or ACCA Qualification required
- Experience in working with multiple functions within an organization (e.g. Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain)
- Advanced Microsoft Excel experience
- Ability to work autonomously with little supervision
- Ability to work within a team
- Verbal and written communication skills
- Decisive and accurate
- Ability to work under pressure and adept in prioritization
How to apply:
If you are up to the challenge and possess the necessary qualification and experience, send your CV only quoting the job title on the email subject (Accountant) to [email protected] by 15th January 2023
