Senior Financial Accountant
Job Description
Job description<p><br></p><p> </p><p>Responsibilities</p><ul><li>Ensure financial transactions are carried out and recorded in accordance with standard financial procedures.</li><li>Maintain Quick Books including regular postings and related accounts reconciliations.</li><li>Ensure effective controls and reconciliations are maintained to required timelines</li><li>Ensure all financial reporting is accurate, complete, and produced to agreed timelines</li><li>Work with others to promote best financial practice and support statutory requirements</li></ul><p>Financial governance:</p><ul><li>Support the project finance leads in day-to-day financial matters</li><li>Review supplier invoices/expense claims, collate supporting documents, obtain appropriate authorisations, and effect payment, per policy</li><li>Record all income and expenditure transactions in financial systems, checking and ensuring correct coding</li><li>Collate and review all credit card receipts with monthly statements and ensure transactions are correctly posted in QB</li><li>Process and/or review advance redemption and petty cash floats, ensuring all receipts are provided, approval obtained, and transactions are correctly posted to financial systems, per policy</li><li>Month end process including accruals, prepayment, payroll, reconciliations, and other month end journals, as required</li><li>Ensure the accuracy of information being input onto the financial systems via monthly review of all project entries and back up documents</li><li>Ensure delegated authority thresholds are always maintained.</li></ul><p>Financial reporting:</p><ul><li>Production of monthly management accounts for projects and country with variance analysis to budget and support in any associated reviews with senior management</li><li>Monitor any debtors and creditors due on a regular basis ensuring timely credit control actions are taken out in coordination with the projects</li><li>Maintains an accurate filing and record keeping system for all financial statements and company documents.</li><li>Ensure all internal / donor audit reports are ready and accurate at all times.</li><li>Review monthly payroll and related reconciliations.</li></ul><p>Financial team support:</p><p>Provide support and training on processes and systems for project finance personnel as required </p><p>• Work with senior management on any local statutory reporting and taxation requirements.</p><p>• Support on business processes, administration, and financial management to ensure they are in line with statutory rules and international best practice</p><p>Key Performance Indicators</p><p><br></p><p>Qualifications</p><ul><li>Bachelor’s degree or higher in Finance / Accounting or related field 4 – 7 years of relevant experience</li><li>Fluency in Microsoft Office suite (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.)</li><li>Detail-oriented and analytical</li><li>Quick books, Advanced excel, Reporting and Presentation, Budgeting, Fluent English and Arabic, Highly organized and efficient</li></ul><p><br></p>
