Accounting Officer

Responsibilities:

Financial Accounting & Ledger Integrity:

• Record daily financial transactions, including sales, purchases, expenses, receipts, payments, and standard journal entries, ensuring correct period cut-off and supporting documentation.
• Maintain the general ledger and subsidiary ledgers, verifying that transactions are accurately classified by account code, entity, customer, supplier, cost center, project, and currency.
• Interrogate ledger activity to identify misclassified postings, duplicate entries, improper accounting logic, incorrect signs, or unsupported journal entries.
• Investigate identified accounting errors and propose corrective reclassification entries to senior management for approval.

Reconciliation & Dispute Investigation:

• Execute regular bank reconciliations, investigating unidentified receipts, payments, and stale reconciling items to ensure timely resolution.
• Reconcile assigned balance sheet accounts, including customer, supplier, intercompany, cash, advances, inventory, and expense accounts.
• Cross-check general ledger entries against underlying invoices, contracts, purchase orders, bank statements, and shipping records to verify complete audit trails.
• Monitor subledger-to-general-ledger balances, distinguish genuine timing differences from accounting errors, and drive open items to resolution.

Month-End Closing & Compliance Support:

• Execute period-end closing tasks for assigned accounts to ensure all balances are fully reconciled and supported ahead of monthly financial reporting schedules.
• Prepare clear supporting schedules, account analyses, and audit files requested by internal leadership, external auditors, or statutory authorities.
• Enforce adherence to the organization's chart of accounts, internal approval matrices, accounting policies, and internal control frameworks.
• Escalate material discrepancies, recurring posting mistakes, unsupported balances, or unexplained accounting anomalies to supervisors with clear supporting evidence.

Requirements:

•  Bachelor's degree or diploma in Accounting, Finance (with an accounting concentration), or a closely related field with formal coursework in financial accounting principles.
• Certification in ACCA, CPA, or an equivalent professional body is an added advantage.
• Minimum of 3–4 years of relevant accounting, financial control, or audit experience.
• Relevant practical experience in bookkeeping, general accounting operations, financial reconciliation, or audit support suited to a junior-to-mid-level professional.
• Exposure to transaction-heavy or multi-entity business environments, such as trading, manufacturing, distribution, or retail, is an advantage.
• Hands-on experience operating within an ERP or enterprise accounting software environment.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel for data verification, lookup functions, basic formulas, and reconciliation schedules.
• Practical understanding of double-entry accounting mechanics, debit/credit logic, cut-off rules, and financial statement interrelationships.
• Strong accounting judgement and attention to detail.
• Financial control and reconciliation expertise.
• Analytical and investigative thinking.
• Ability to identify unusual patterns and challenge unsupported balances or transactions.
• Strong follow-up and issue-resolution discipline.
• Ability to distinguish genuine business movements from accounting errors.
• Clear written and verbal communication.
• High level of integrity, confidentiality, and ownership.