Accountant at Foundation Institute of Africa (FIA)

DEPARTMENT:          Administration

SUPERVISOR:            Administrator

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.

• Ensure timely collection of school fees
• Prepare, examine, or analyze accounting records, financial statements, or other financial reports toassess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.
• Develop and provide timely financial accounting reports for management consumption
• Compute taxes owed and prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting or other tax requirements.
• Analyze business operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations, to project future revenues and expenses or to provide advice.
• Maintain or examine the records pertaining to regulatory agencies.
• Advise management about issues such as resource utilization, tax strategies, and the assumptions underlying budget forecasts.
• Represent the school in discussions with the revenue authority and provide support during litigation involving financial issues.
• Ensure timely fees collection
• Manage petty cash
• Manage all salary payments and deductions eg NSSF, NHIF

Key Performance Measures:

• Timely collection and banking of school fees
• 100% clear, complete and comprehensive record keeping eg petty cash transactions, bills, invoices
• The school meets the statutory tax requirements
• Timely submission of reports to the Finance Officer

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration,BCOM or equivalent
• CPA II and above.
• Strong analytical and organizational skills
• Ability to prepare standard financial reports on a regular basis
• Proven computer literacy in Microsoft Office or related programs
• Experience in using financial accounting packages and working in a computerized environment
• Proven ability to work well with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders and to act ethically
• Strong work ethic, based on proactive planning and personal responsibility
• Customer service skills
• Over 5 years of relevant work and progressive experience preferably gained through working in a busy service oriented organization

Personal Attributes

• Critical thinking skills
• Trustworthiness
• Undoubted integrity
• Time management skills
• Good communication skills