Accountant at HCS Africa

Job Purpose

The accountant is expected to be the focal point for aggregation of financial data for the company, a hands-on person. The officer is responsible for bookkeeping, over the desk audits of payments, generation of operating weekly, monthly and annuals budgets and cash flows and management accounts. Additionally, he will support the Head of Finance in compliance, Credit sales management, procurement processes as well as daily section management.

The position requires close collaboration with customer relationship officers; Operations support staff as well as engineering departments.

Key Responsibilities

• Complete data entry of the businesses under MFS Technologies group in a timely manner within the required quality standards.
• Prepare periodic cash flow reports and monitor operating cash balances on a weekly basis.
• Perform monthly closing journals and prepare management accounts on a timely basis and free from errors.
• Prepare/generate reconciled monthly supplier and Customer statements.
• File all taxes correctly and within the Tax Authority’s deadlines.
• Support the Head of Finance in enforcing, updating and renewing policies, processes, and other SOPs.
• Support the annual audits; prepare all schedules required by external auditors.
• Maintain correct float balances for the funded customer accounts that are available on demand.
• Assist the Head of Finance in the revenue assurance function.
• Support automation processes in the department and in the company.
• Monitor and report on Key Profit & Loss, Balance sheet and Cash flow drivers in a timely manner and offer remediate suggestions.
• File all finance documents in a well referenceable manner as required by the tax authority and/or company policies.
• Close and reconcile intercompany accounts.

Job Competencies (Knowledge, Experience and Attributes/Skills)

• A degree in finance, Data science, computing science, or mathematics, and.
• 4 years working experience in a similar role.
• Professional qualifications in accountancy. Qualification in ACCA/CGMA preferred, and Excellent technical knowledge of IFRSs, IASs or GAAPs; or
• Knowledge of data mining tools, advanced excel skills or programming.
• Relevant industry experience (Fintech/Financial services) is preferred.
• Knowledge of Paybill and till accounts administration& Reconciliations.