Financial Accountant at Peridot Forte Solutions Consulting

Job Summary: 

• Harmonize all subsidiary ledgers, pivotal participation towards efforts in ensuring financial stability, monitor all transactions’ recognition basis and measurement, accuracy, and completeness and promote effective supervisory function over his team to ensure compliance with accounting regulations, procedures, processes for the reliability and integrity of financial reporting and maintain good relationships with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Assisting FC in managing the accounting records, evaluating, and managing risk, assist the Financial Controller to oversee effective accounting operations, analysing financial data, and monitoring expenditure, and cost accounting function.
• Professional assistance to FC in forecasting revenue, seamless accounting and financial processes to ensure the accuracy of financial information at any given period
• Ensuring that cheque payment vouchers are raised promptly and coordinated for timely release as soon as the financial controller authorized the payment plan.
• Responsible for supervision of accounts payable unit
• Monitoring and ensuring postings are done to relevant recovery ledgers
• Ensure proper maintenance of payment voucher files
• Assisting in maintaining positive revenue and financial growth, assisting in formulating sound financial strategies, implementing proper internal controls, achieving organizational targets, and in developing financial plans that support organizational strategy.
• Assisting Financial Controller in providing financial analysis and reports, training his team on business finance issues, promote regulatory and accounting standards compliance, and assisting to drive income generation capacity for the organization.
• Partnering with stakeholders across the business and financial spectrum including Front operations, Production, and Outlet Managers to drive continuous improvement in financial and operational performance.
• Ensure rent memos, regulatory payment memos, and statutory payment memos such as group life assurance, HMO etc., are journalized and ensure they are charged to P & L on a monthly basis.
• Responsible for journal entries for monthly provisions such as depreciation, electricity bills, levies and rates, rent, head office charges etc.
• In charge of the preparation of schedules for the following ledgers: accruals/provisions prepayments, amortizations, etc and ensure transactions of this nature are accurately posted to P & L and personal account ledgers
• Aggressive follow-up with his team members to ensure all transactions are posted to the ledgers promptly for timely bank reconciliation by the audit department.
• Work closely and cordially with the Head of Accounts to ensure smooth administrative running of the department and timely financial reporting.
• Ensuring accurate postings to Fixed Assets ledgers and maintenance of Fixed assets schedule.
• Weekly reconciliation of GL balances with subsidiary ledgers to ensure posting accuracy and to reduce month-end books closing burden
• Monthly reconciliation of GL balances with subsidiary ledgers to ensure error-free postings before monthly accounts is finalized
• Responsible for year-end closing of books to ensure accurate opening balances for the ensuing financial year for FC’s final review.
• Assisting the Financial Controller in tax matters
• Work closely with HOA to ensure prompt submission of reports from all outlets and cost centers to aid final accounts preparation and reporting.
• Ensure timely preparation of statement of financial position schedules for FC’s review before final accounts reporting.

Requirements

• First Degree in Accounting or any Finance-related discipline. 
• Any Accounting professional qualification such as ACA, ACMA, CPA, CNA, ACCA.
• 8 - 10 years’ experience, preferably in the QSR, hospitality or manufacturing industries.
• Good knowledge of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM).
• Good knowledge of Internal Control function and corporate Governance.  
• Good knowledge of Enterprise resource planning (ERP).
• Broad knowledge of accounting principles and standards.