Assistant Manager - Accounting

Date Posted: Feb. 27, 2024, 5:54 a.m.

Sanergy

Job Description

About the Role

Ensure timely payment processing to all suppliers, reporting on Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Treasury, and Audit functions. Facilitate accurate and timely ledger postings, reconciliation of balance sheet accounts, financial statement preparation, and coordination of audits.

Duties and Responsibilities

Payment Processing and Financial Reporting:

  • Lead the Accounts Payable/Receivable, Treasury, Audit, and Month End Close team.
  • Review and process all due bills for payment, ensuring timely payments to service providers.
  • Reconcile processed work, verifying entries, and comparing system reports to balances.
  • Respond to vendor inquiries regarding finance and negotiate payment terms with external stakeholders.
  • Prepare analyses of accounts and monthly reports, continuously improving the payment process.
  • Analyze financial information, summarize financial status of the organization, and recommend actions to resolve identified discrepancies.

Accounts Receivable Management and Reporting:

  • Collaborate with retention teams to track and manage AR performance for improved collections.
  • Prepare and analyze AR reports, including models to track key metrics.
  • Inter-company billing and reconciliation.

Treasury Management and Operational Efficiency:

  • Reconcile revenue and expenditure items on the TB and share documentation with the Audit team.
  • Identify operational efficiencies and enhancements to internal controls.
  • Monitor bank balances, currency conversions, and payment uploads.
  • Own relationships with banking and cash cycle-related vendors.
  • Manage the reconciliation and schedules of all balance sheet accounts and their sub-ledger accounts.

Audit and Compliance:

  • Perform and control the full audit cycle, including risk management and control management over operations' effectiveness, financial reliability, and compliance with all applicable directives and regulations.
  • Coordinate periodic internal and external audits, including Grant audits where applicable.
  • Prepare and present reports reflecting the audit's results and document processes.

Financial Governance and Risk Management:

  • Develop and implement methodologies for controlling foreign exchange exposure, excess cash management, debt facilities management, and interest rate risk management.
  • Grant and project fund management in collaboration with the Business Development team.
  • Monthly COGs reconciliation and chargeback to inventory for all products.

Qualifications

  • Business Degree preferably in Finance or Accounting.
  • CPA/ACCA Finalist.
  • Minimum 7 years’ experience in accounting with at least 2 years in Treasury, AR & AP management.
  • Preparation of financial reports.
  • Advanced Microsoft Excel knowledge is a MUST.
  • Excellent quantitative and analytical skills of large data sets are a MUST (will be assessed).
  • Strong team player and communicator, decisive with problem-solving skills.

Application Deadline

2024-02-29

How To Apply

Interested and qualified candidates should send their applications to Sanergy via the link Jobs at sanergy

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