Finance Associate at ACE (Africa Courier Express)

Job Description

• As a Finance Associate, you will support the day-to-day financial transactions.
• The responsibility of the Finance Associate includes processing payments, maintaining cost reports and managing invoices.
• Ultimately, you’ll help maintain our company’s financial health and make sure we use our resources beneficially.
• If you have an accounting background and are interested in procedures like tax management and budget preparation, we’d like to meet you.

Responsibilities
Your key responsibilities would include:

• Keep accurate records for all daily transactions. Updating financial spreadsheets.
• Prepare balance sheets
• Process invoices
• Record accounts payable and accounts receivable
• Update internal systems with financial data
• Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual financial reports
• Reconcile bank statements
• Participate in financial audits
• Track bank deposits and payments
• Assist with budget preparation
• Review and implement financial policies
• Provide administrative support during budget preparation
• Participate in quarterly and annual audits

Desired Qualifications

• B.Sc in Finance, Accounting or Economics
• Proven work experience as a Finance Officer or similar role
• Solid knowledge of financial and accounting procedures
• Experience using financial software
• Advanced MS Excel skills (creating spreadsheets and using financial functions)
• Knowledge of financial regulations
• Excellent analytical and numerical skills
• Strong ethics, with an ability to manage confidential data
• Professional qualification as a CFA/CPA is considered a plus
• Organizational and time-management skills
• Attention to detail, with an ability to spot numerical errors

The successful candidate is:

• A Team Player.  You may have to work with several different teams, which requires flexibility, adaptability, and the ability to comfortably operate in a matrixed environment
• Has no complacency and is high energy. You understand your role is critical to the company. You apply high energy every day to meet your delivery and distribution metrics. You want to improve every day, month, quarter, year. You are persistent, clear and driven to get goods to the customer – properly and quickly.
• Resourceful, High Integrity, High Impact. You find a way. You do business with trust and transparency and aim to influence your team.
• Collaborative. You understand you need a team to succeed. You carry along internal stakeholders to ensure they are aligned and aware of ingenuities in the department.
• Meticulous. You must have an eye for detail every step of the way. Reports and statements often have discrepancies that result in the need to research, escalate, and resolve issues effectively

Our Offer

• A unique education in launching and scaling new concepts in Africa
• Become part of a highly professional and dynamic team
• An attractive salary package
• An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer-term objective is to train the next generation of leaders for country-changing ventures.