Reports To: Manager - Finance Operations Supplier Management
Division: Finance
Mission:
• To account for all company-wide Financial Operations activities (Supplier Management), support various divisions on financial issues and maintain commercial relationships with external stakeholders.
Description:
• Maintain a strict control environment and ensure strict compliance with all MTNN policies and procedures.
• Perform accounts payable process and reporting
• Analyze and process invoice and PO’s received; and ensure accurate receipt of Purchase Orders on ERP by user departments.
• Manage appropriately, the databases of Withholding Tax deductions on vendors’ payments, withholding tax (\WHT) deductions for remittance and analyse vendor/staff sub-ledgers.
• Process transactions for staff advances, retirement and expense claims, and analyse divisional cash floats for adequacy; and rectify error.
• Ensure efficient and timely reconciliation and reimbursement of float (Executive Mastercard float, fuel etc).
• Perform general ledger accounting and reporting.
• Liaise with banks and key stakeholders when required and perform reconciliation of bank statement to general ledger accounts.
• Track expenditure by planning and directing all expenditure activities.
• Compile monthly financial expenditure reports.
• Reconcile financial expenditure with divisional / regional financial managers
• Perform month end reporting activities.
• Analyze/prepare relevant information for annual budget and financial forecasting; and assist in managing inter-company relationships.
• Supervise/review operational cash flow projection and utilization as well as processing of account payable.
• Work with Financial Operations Manager to identify /rectify error in the entry and remittance of Withholding Tax deductions.
• Establish trends and benchmarks for cash transactions per accounts and prepare reports to assist with pricing decisions.
• Review and approve departmental accrual submissions as well as provide detailed investigation and analysis of all accounts.
Education:
• A first degree in any discipline, but a finance and management related degree is desirable.
• A professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CPA, CIMA).
• Fluent in English
Experience:
3-7 years’ experience which includes
• Experience working in a medium organization
• Experience in core accounting function
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office tools
• Experience in using an ERP system is desirable
• Experience in Finance functions in the telecommunications industry would be an added advantage