ACCOUNTING OFFICER

analyzing all financial activities, ensuring compliance with accounting and legal requirements, and preparing budgets. To be successful as an accounting officer, you should have a degree in Accounting, knowledge of accounting competencies, and administration skills.

• Previous working experience as an Accounting Officer.
• Knowledge and competency in accounting principles.
• Proficiency in management systems.
• Administration skills.
• Sound interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency in MS Excel and other accounting software.
• A degree in Accounting or similar.
• General accounting tasks, including reconciling and maintaining balance sheet accounts and general ledger operations, preparing journal entries, preparing monthly closing and financial reports, preparing account/bank reconciliations;
• Perform finance analysis, reporting and management tasks;
• Oversee the validation of transactions and verification of their overall impact on the general accounts;
• Lay down and validate the accounting systems and tools;
• Review financial paperwork and procedures, provide recommendations and make necessary changes;
• Ensure all expenses are within assigned project budget and verify the completeness of all required supporting documentation for all payments vouchers;