job description - Financial Accountant
Financial Accountant Responsibilities:
- Reviewing of data captured by Clerk
- Capturing of financial transactions for projects
- Preparation of mid-month and month-end payment packs for review
- Circulation of creditors' payment to directors for approval
- Ensuring monthly accounting entries are recorded in the ERP system (Xero & Palladium) accurately and in line with the Group's monthly close timings.
- Coordinating accounts payable process to ensure all invoices are logged, approved and paid on time
- Preparing receivables billing, and reviewing revenue and purchase orders for accuracy, classification, and approval.
Reporting:
- Preparing monthly management accounts for operating SPV, Asset Management
- Prepare annual budget, reviews, and approval
Loan Compliance:
- Loan compliance
- Ad-hoc projects could include: tax investigations, simple valuations, sensitivity analysis, secretarial
Finance:
- Coordinating local audit work for any local statutory audit requirements and audit review
- Ensuring tax compliance for local SPV, and or assisting where these functions are outsourced.
- Ensuring corporate income tax returns prepared internally are accurate. External advisors review final and provisional taxes but the calculation remains the responsibility of the internal team.
- Ensuring VAT reports are prepared monthly, and returns are filed timely and accurately. Reconciliation of VAT is done on a regular basis
- Ensuring payroll & payroll taxes are filed timely and accurately where applicable.
- Ensuring withholding tax etc (if applicable) are paid timely and accurately.
- Ensuring all tax payments due are paid on time.
Minimum requirements include:
- A degree in Accounting/Finance and a recognised accounting qualification IS essential.
- At least 2 years of experience in an accounting environment. Experience within energy, utility, industrial company or similar industry would be an advantage.
- Understanding of IFRS, Budgeting, Forecasting and Financial Analysis.
- Keen to take ownership of tasks and responsibilities and ensure that work is completed accurately and timely and all lenders' financial and covenant requirements are complied with.
- Proactive self-starter, highly motivated, focused on working at a high level and producing an excellent work product under changing priorities and deadlines.
- Good relationship builder - open and honest style - excellent communication skills. Able to communicate effectively and deal comfortably with multiple projects/requests.
- Excellent English both written and verbal.
- Familiarity with Financial modeLling would be advantageous but not essential.
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