Accounts Officer at Gatsby Africa

Key Responsibilities 
Finance management and reporting

• Progress goods received notes for payment within Gatsby payment system, processes, and guidelines.
• Reconcile the intercompany accounts monthly.
• Receive and validate staff advances surrenders and ensure compliance with Gatsby’s policies and procedures. 
• Attend to the corporate help desk requests and ensure all tasks are executed and closed.
• Post accounting journals and other transactions in line with approved policies, procedures, and guidelines.
• Help finance business partners understand and appreciate finance systems and processes. 
• Preparation tax schedules in an accurate and timely manner.
• Filing of Gatsby Africa tax returns on a timely basis.
• Participate in uploading of budgets into the accounting system.

Treasury management

• Initiate the payment process on the various online banking platforms or manually in line with Gatsby payment guidelines.
• Ensure authorisation of payments in accordance with delegation of authorities and follow up for approvals and necessary signatures before payments. 
• Reconcile office petty cash, conduct cash counts, and submit reports on monthly basis.
• Ensure that all accounting documentation e.g. ensure that all supporting documents to a payment, a journal and/or a transaction are filed in accordance with the country’s document retention rules and internal information policy. 
• Maintain file archives in an appropriate manner to facilitate quick retrievals of documents.
• Serve as an alternate bank agent.
• Serve as an alternate administrator on respective bank correspondences.

Systems and Audit 

• Participate as required in the preparation of audit schedules and retrieval of documents required for audit. 
• Identify any accounting system improvements or issues and inform the line manager.
• ​Perform any other duties as may be assigned from time to time.

Person Specification

This is a challenging and exciting role that will require an individual who has excellent attention to detail; strong experience in financial management; and who enjoys building and maintaining strong relationships across a range of stakeholders.  

Key Competencies and Personal Attributes

• Organised: Able to structure workflow in an orderly manner and prioritize tasks in a dynamic and demanding work environment.
• Able to multi-task and observe deadlines: Able to handle multiple assignments and deliver on time on all tasks.
• Attentive to detail: Committed to achieving and maintaining the highest quality of work in all aspects of the role.
• Team player: Ability to work well within a team and to develop strong and effective working relationships internally and externally.
• Excellent communication both written and oral: Ability to communicate clearly, accurately and sensitively. 
• Self-starter: Able to identify what needs to be done and takes the initiative.