Intercompany and Bank Accountant at Unilever

Main job purpose

Credit management and reporting of intercompany transactions.

Key interactions

Interfaces with; -

• Internal – Interfaces across Auditors, Supply Chain, Finance, IT, Customer Service, HR, (Master files control) and Brand Building (Result commentaries and evaluations) in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Ethiopia.
• External - Regional Contacts, Controllers team and the various finance operational hubs

Intercompany

Key Accountabilities

• Contact person for all intercompany queries from central team – provides commentary, assists on reconciliation queries, incoming payment clearing, providing details for outgoing payments and mismatch resolution
• Raises invoice requests through BMC for all charges out of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Rwanda. We have not had any service invoicing out of Djibouti so far
• Co-ordinates all IC collections for Kenya’s exports. This involves liaising with treasury to make forex deals
• Creation and extension of all IC vendors in East Africa

Working Capital

• Provides frequent updates on WC position to the group for timely action on gaps, focus currently being on stocks. This includes reconciling and providing support for Intercompany mismatches
• Monthly reporting of WC actuals and forecast submission to the SA team. WC forecast upload into Ifinance is a quarterly task.

Rwanda

• Month end tasks including bank, AP (accounts payable) and AR (accounts receivable) revaluation.
• Update of monthly closing rates into SAP. This involves liaising with treasury to get the rates, and update them in the system monthly
• Transfer of costs incurred in Rwanda to Kenya. This is a monthly task, has tasks such as calculation of management fees (which means she must liaise with MR team for the month’s Turnover before transferring costs to Kenya)
• Reconciliation and clearing of payroll accounts
• Posting of bank statements, reconciling and clearing BOI – works with the Rwanda person

Bank

• Country contact for bank open item queries. Assists CG reconcile judgemental transactions (e.g., offline payroll, monthly statutory submissions), provides bank statements where CG has no access
• Posting of payroll CBVs (and these are quite many – payments for exits statutory submissions journal postings
• Now prepares and submits closing rates to the CG team for update into SAP (previously used to be done by Janet)

3rd party invoicing

• Preparation of Nairobi garage invoices and follow up of payments
• Verification and clearing of receipts from scrap sales and raw material customers (including Cargil receipts – this is a tea buying customer)

Knowledge & Skill

• Qualified Accountant
• Management/Financial Accounting experience in an FMCG business.
• Experience in a multinational company will be ideal.
• Strong knowledge and practical experience in the application of Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word tools.
• Decision Support and Analytical Skills
• Performance Monitoring and Management of Business Planning Processes
• Good knowledge/hands on of an ERP system- SAP.
• Accounting graduate & Chartered Accountant.

Experience Required

• Strong analytical power, complex problem-solving techniques
• Excellent Communication and Presentation Skills

Women and People living with a disability are encouraged to apply.

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