We’re hiring an Accountant! If you’re a finance professional looking for your next opportunity, this role may be for you.
Role: Accountant
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Location: Accra
Responsibilities
- Prepare assets, liability, and capital account entries by compiling and analyzing account information
- Document financial transactions by entering account information
- Recommend financial actions by analyzing accounting options
- Summarize current financial status by collecting information, preparing balance sheets, profit and loss statements, and other reports
- Substantiate financial transactions by auditing documents
- Maintain accounting controls by preparing and recommending policies and procedures
- Guide accounting clerical staff by coordinating activities and answering questions
- Reconcile financial discrepancies by collecting and analyzing account information
- Secure financial information by completing database backups
- Verify, allocate, post, and reconcile transactions
- Produce error-free accounting reports and present their results
- Analyze financial information and summarize financial status
- Provide technical support and advice to management
- Review and recommend modifications to accounting systems and generally accepted accounting procedures
- Participate in financial standards setting and forecast process
- Provide input into the department’s goal-setting process
- Prepare financial statements and produce a budget according to schedule
- Direct internal and external audits to ensure compliance
- Plan, assign, and review staff's work
- Support the month-end and year-end close process
- Develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls
- Communicating effectively with clients
Requirements
- Thorough knowledge of basic accounting procedures and principles
- Experience with creating financial statements
- Experience with general ledger functions and the month-end/year-end close process
- Excellent accounting software user and administration skills
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Aptitude for numbers and quantitative skills
- At least 3 years of Experience working with Excel and spreadsheets
- Bachelor’s degree or master’s Degree in an appropriate field of study or equivalent work experience
Salary: Negotiable depending on Experience
Apply by sending your CVs to hr@katfoundation.org / generalmgr@katfoundation.org
Females are strongly encouraged to apply.