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• Collate all accounting data ready for posting.

• Daily posting of purchase, bills payable, petty cash payments and bankings.

• Follow standard accounting procedures and company guidelines at all times and in all cases.

• Review source documents for accuracy, completeness, correctness and consistency.

• Do weekly reconciliations of all bank accounts provided.

• Make monthly bank reconciliation statements.

Secondary Responsibilities

• Reconcile creditors’ accounts and expense accounts and submit them to finance manager.

• Compute taxes owed and prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting and other tax requirements.

• Maintain tables of accounts codes and assign entries to proper accounts.

• Assist in developing, maintaining, and analyzing budgets, preparing periodic reports that compare budgeted costs to actual costs.

• Prepare forms and manuals for accounting and bookkeeping subordinates, and direct their work activities.

• Survey operations to ascertain accounting needs and to recommend, develop, and maintain solutions to business and financial problems.

• Advise the finance manager about issues such as resource utilization, tax strategies, and the assumptions underlying budget forecasts.

• Assist in internal and external auditing services for businesses and individuals.

• Advise staff in areas such as design of accounting and data processing systems, and long-range tax and company plans.

• Investigate complex financial transactions and prepare reports summarizing the findings.

• Appraise, evaluate, and inventory real property and equipment, recording information such as the property's description, value, and location.

• To understand, Implement and maintain all ISO systems in the company.

• Perform any other duties as they may be assigned

Authority:

• Reports to the Finance Manager

• Interfaces: (titles of people you deal with, e.g., from other departments, sections, customers)

• Trade debtor and creditors

• Administration manager

Health, Safety and Environmental responsibilities and Ethics:

• Ensure cleanliness in and around the workplace.

• Enforce PPE usage by employees in the plant at all times.

• Guidance and on-the job training of workers especially new ones in good environmental maintenance and safer working procedures in order to reduce occupational accidents.

• Assist management to identify resources required to improve EHS in the company.

• Ensure good housekeeping in the plant i.e., immediate cleaning of coolants and oil spillages, emptying of waste bins, shift of scrap from respective workplace.

• Ensure proper use of waste bins and their availability at the designated respective locations in the plant

• Assist in taking corrective actions for any EHS deficiencies identified during audits or day to day observations

• Help casualties get immediate medical attention and also work closely with HR and systems coordinator during accidents/incident investigations

• Facilitate security of company staff and property.

• Promote health and safety at the workplace.

• Encourage teamwork for the purpose of a smooth and prosperous management

• Help create a culture and atmosphere of hard work and high personal integrity.

• Safeguard the company's systems and Terms and Conditions of employment.