The Senior Accountant has overall roles and responsibility of ensuring the proper financial accounting and compliance as well as ensuring providing the management with good accounting information as and when needed.
Key Roles and Responsibilities
Financial Control and Compliance
Ensures all expenditures comply with requirements of the PROJECT Financers and Ethiopian Revenue and Customs Authority as well as adhere with the Consolidated SYS Financial Manual.
Verify correctness of cost/expense documents and ensure that payment requests are sufficiently supported by source documents and required authorizations are in place. S/he shall also be responsible effect all payment request in time.
Responsible for accurate and timely posting of all financial transactions within SYS and ensures the application of proper accounting controls and uniformity with financial regulation, rules and policies and procedures.
Responsible for all financial and management reports (reconciliation, cash flow analyses, balance sheet and fund utilization etc) for SYS (monthly, quarterly and annually) and ensure proper reconciliation of accounts on time in full.
Ensures statutory tax obligations (VAT, Withholding and employee income tax and others) are timely and accurately settled. S/he shall also be responsible for supporting annual external audit of the partnership.
Treasury
Oversees the timely preparation, review and approval of all monthly bank account and cash reconciliations.
Ensures compliance related to advance payments, credit terms, and use of bank payment instruments.
Forecasts of cash requirements for meeting future spending, including commitments entered into and which obligate SYS to future spending.
Prepare payment request and ensures that appropriate balances are maintained to facilitate grant implementation.
Ensures the development and implementation of a plan to minimize the country’s foreign exchange exposure to currency gains and losses.
Responsible for timely collection of contractual and other receivables.
Budget and Reporting
Provide all the necessary data for annual budgeting on time in full and assist the financial controller in preparation of the budget.
Assist SYS in accounting and procurement of goods and services in line with rules and regulations.
Assist the Finance Manager in budgetary review of plan vs actual and presentation of actual to budget expenditures to the management and partners.
Assist the Finance Manager for timely delivery of all financial reports to meet statutory, donor and project coordination and management units.
Managing People and Team
Provide training and coaching to business functions, branch offices, logistics and administrative staff for skills improvement in the areas of accounting, reporting and internal control.
Supports the Finance Manager in completing performance reviews on a timely basis and facilitates discussion of performance and career options with the other accountants.
Act on behalf the Financial Manager as and when needed and ensure proper supervisory role. Also assist the development of team members in pursuing their career plans as well as achieve results.
Key Working Relationships
Internal
Coach finance and non finance team
Communicates with staff of all business functions and sister companies.
External
Occasionally Communicates with the partners
Represents the SYS with Banking Managers, local government staff (taxation and regulation related) and External Auditors.
Benefits and compensation
Negotiable and attractive package.
Job Requirement
Leadership and Management Competences
Excellent communication and facilitation skills.
Ability to build a shared vision on the financial system serving the SYS requirements.
Mastery in demonstrating personal effectiveness and delivering results in teamwork
Outstanding skills in planning, organizing and reporting
Strong analytical and critical reasoning and problem solving.
Good understanding of cross-cultural working practices.
Being proactive and regularly seek to identify and communicate potential problems and propose solutions to the appropriate level of management.
Ability to perform under stress with minimal supervision and able to handle multiple tasks at a time in calm and organized manner. Have an attitude stimulating integration of diversity and inclusiveness
Technical Competences
Able to develop, design, implementation and monitoring of financial systems of multiple business functions.
Strong quantitative analyses skills
Able to coach junior accountants and the other financial staff of the projects and partners.
Able to manage and report on financial project data and make projections for the future based on different business models.
Able to link the financial results to strategic choices for SYS.
Able to understand contract and procurement procedures and align finance operations in accordance.
Education, work experience and language
Education
BA or Masters in Accounting, Finance and Management Accounting and related fields. ACCA Certification is a plus.
At least 4 years of hands on experience in accounting and finance and at least 4 years as Senior Accountant. Knowledge of finance in development cooperation in agricultural development and agribusiness or project management is a plus.
Extensive experience in working with computerized accounting systems, standard spreadsheet and database programs.
Proficiency in Spoken and Written English and Amharic languages is a must.