Accountant

Job Description

The Accountant's role revolves mainly on the Finance Operations, Accounts Payable and Reconciliation and Audit. 

He/She assists the organization comply with fiduciary duties, corporate governance and due diligence requirements. He/She examines the budget, balance sheet and financial statements for irregularities; manages financial resources and activities; improves the process efficiency; mitigates financial risks, prevent fraud or theft; monitor and control cashflow; and meets financial objectives.

Cash Management and Reconciliation

• Ensure that cash amounts in an organization's accounting ledgers reconcile with actual bank balance.
• Continuously follow-up on all reconciling items and provide regular updates to direct leadership.
• Maintain documentation for the purpose of supporting files, reports, and data.
• Adhere to corporate standards and procedures in all reconciliation activities.
• Assist both internal and external auditors by providing requested documents in an organized state in a timely manner.

Accounts Receivable

• Create bill, calculate drawdowns and send invoice to donors.
• Prepare Billing and Revenue Reports; and perform billing month-end activities.
• Processing accounting receivables and incoming payments in compliance with financial policies and procedures.
• Performing day to day financial transactions, including verifying, classifying, computing, posting and recording accounts receivables' data.

Accounts Payable

• Receive, process, and verify invoices and supporting documents related to accounts payables. 
• Manage stakeholders like, but not limited to, providing performance report to the business unit and participating in performance review and/or process improvement meetings.
•  Perform ad-hoc tasks as identified by the Team Lead or higher such as handling requests related to Accounts Receivable, Cash Management, General Ledger and Expense Module
• Protect businesses against unintentional overpayment.

General Ledger and Asset Management

• Gather all necessary reports and detailed support both periodically and on-demand, including balance sheets, profit and loss statements, revenue forecasts, budgets, and cash-flow statements.
• Perform month-end and year-end close activities like journal entries, multi-currency processing, allocations, consolidations, fixed asset maintenance, etc.
• Send out the following reports to Business Unit(s) for their disposition:

- Unposted Journals

- Suspense Reports

- Catastrophic and Security Contribution

• Monitor and report on accounting discrepancies.
• Support internal or external audit activities.
• Ensure the integrity of accounting information and reconcile any financial discrepancies by performing or directing research of accounting issues for compliance and establish quality over transactions and reporting.
• Provide in-country support as needed and requested.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or Business Administration with emphasis in accounting
• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline with equivalent work experience in NGO and development industry setting for years with emphasis on Finance and Accounting.
• Minimum 1 to 2 years of relevant experience in progressive finance and accounting from a non-profit or for-profit organization
• 3 years or more relevant experience in progressive finance and accounting from a non-profit or for-profit organization in development industry setting
• Prior experience working with finance and accounting management with a fast-paced finance department preferred.
• CPA, Chartered Accountant, post graduate or other relevant certification.