Job Summary:
Our Client, a Tourism Company, is looking for a qualified Accounting Officer who will be responsible for analyzing all financial activities, ensuring compliance with accounting and legal requirements, and preparing budgets.
Responsibilities:
Financial
Management
- Correct authorization and
allocation of business expenditure.
- Demonstrate and lead with an
independent mind that is capable of questioning the need/requirement for
proposed business expenditure and/or to consider that the determined value is
reasonable, fair and within acceptable market ranges.
- Timely and accurate recording
of transactions, whether on the Panstrat system or within manual systems such
that transactions are recorded on a day-to-day basis.
- Prepare supplier payment
requests.
- Interpretation and analysis of
management accounts.
- Assist with payroll preparation
and reconciliations.
- Collation and resolution of
general ledger queries.
- Resolve all queries on balance
sheet reconciliations.
- Manage and update stock sheets.
Reporting
- Meeting certain non-negotiable finance
deadlines.
- Provide timely feedback on
management accounts to the Regional Finance Manager.
- Driving monthly finance
meetings to discuss financial performance – feedback of these meetings to be
communicated to the Regional Finance Manager.
- Oversee and assist in the
compiling of budgets and quarterly forecasts.
- Assist lodge managers/ Director
with queries.
- Assisting with year-end audit.
- Reconciling various accounts
including clearing accounts and inter lodge transactions.
- Manage and supervise all
reports to ensure that their duties are performed in line with output
requirements expected of the Accounting Officer.
Internal
control environment & safe guarding of company assets and resources
- Maintaining stock control
procedures.
- Actively assist with month-end
stock takes.
- Actively monitor, formulate and
updating the internal controls within the lodge and conduct documented internal
audits and spot checks where necessary.
- Actively practice the principle
of professional skepticism on a day-to-day basis.
- A duty to investigate and
follow up any occurrence or suspected occurrences where the company has or may
suffer losses.
- A duty to report immediately any known or suspected cases of internal control breaches leading to or
potentially leading to the undue loss of company assets or resources if not
addressed.
- Maintain a duty to ensure that
company assets are properly recorded, safeguarded and cared for by those
responsible for their custody.
- Take full responsibility of
petty cash, mobile wallets, company bank accounts.
- Perform regular audits on
safari shop systems and processes.
- Ensure that accurate documentation
is kept on record.
Training
- Assist all staff with PanStrat.
- Assisting and training the
lodge staff members in accounting principles.
- Review and train Front of House
systems.
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