Job Description

• Management Accounting: to assist with setting up chart of accounts, preparation of the monthly management accounts and day to day management accounting responsibilities including month end processes for clients.
• Monitoring Reports: to prepare and issue monthly management reports to all clients every month.
• Statutory Accounts: to assist with the preparation of the annual statutory financial statements and related notes.
• Budget and Financial Plans: to assist with the preparation of the organisation’s annual budget and future financial plans.
• Accounting Transactions: to compute and process accounting transactions as required.
• Balance Sheet Reconciliations: to perform monthly balance sheet reconciliations as appropriate.
• GST: to assist with GST reconciliation, preparation & submission of final GST returns, GST closure issues, GST audits.
• SST: to assist with SST registration, integration of SST with accounting software, SST reconciliation, preparation & submission of SST returns, SST audits.
• Special Projects: to assist the Head of Departments with special projects when necessary.
• Other duties commensurate with the grade, as may be requested by the Heads of Departments, especially contributing to a team approach to workload demands elsewhere within the wider group.

Job Requirements

• Must have a recognised university degree or professional qualification in Accounting/Finance/ACCA/ICAEW/CIMA
• Min 5 years experience with a professional firm
• Strong experience with MYOB, SQL, QuickBooks and/or other accounting software packages.
• Has handled a portfolio of min 100 clients
• Has led a team of min 20-30 staff
• Good communication skills, written and verbal, with the team and clients' senior management
• Good interpersonal skills, with a successful record of attracting, hiring, retaining, and managing an audit team
• Self-motivated and leads by example
• A team player and willing to perform the basics where necessary
• Committed to working within budgetary and time constraints while calculating risks and providing a high-level of client satisfaction
• Experience across a broad range of industries, including construction -  banking or insurance experience not necessary
• Technically proficient in accounting - consolidation in particular including that of foreign subsidiaries
• Well versed in tax issues
• Good administrator for managing job status, job allocation and various SOPs to ensure smooth operation of the accounts department

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