Accountant at Nicole Sinclair Consulting

Responsibilities

• Coordinates daily banking deposits and withdrawal which include, daily updates of online guest deposits, monitoring of withdrawals and cheques status.
• Liaise with the bank officers on the issue relating to the company
• Liaise with other departments on operational payments and retirements matters.
•  Ensure that the finance  Policies and Procedures are strictly adhered to
• Timely collation of due bills initiates all payments after all the internal controls have been followed and completed.
• Advises the management of the company on cash liquidity status
• Ensure effective debt recovery
•  Oversee the preparation of staff salaries and other emoluments on a monthly and yearly basis.
• Responsible for setting up and maintaining payroll Pensions, PAYE, Benefits, Allowances in the company software.
• Liaise with PFA’s on staff pension entitlements after disengagement from the company’s payroll.
• Prepares the monitoring reports such as budgets and monitors the matching of expenditures with incomes in accordance with the budget, critically reviews the variances and advises the management accordingly.
• Organizes good Credit policy and report on implementation credit control measures.
• Attendance and provision of explanation on issues raised by the Internal Revenue Service during the course of a tax audit, co-ordination of employees related tax forms for the issuance of Tax Clearance Certificate and tax deductions cards and arrange for reconciliation when the need arises.
• Prepares monthly, quarterly and yearly management accounts reports that would be sufficient for planning and taking financial decisions by the management staff and the Directors.
• Works with the company’s auditors periodically, to carry out their routine checks and ensure that issues in a letter of weakness are being attended to before the next financial year. Ensure that, the audited reports agree with the software reports after each audit exercise.
• Commercial responsibility includes, enhance the effectiveness of the organization's policies and controls on the pricing and selling strategies with timely empirical analysis. Ensure that all selling metrics would lead to a better turnover through clear computations and analysis.
• Advice on available tax advantage both to the company and the Directors.
• Supervises daily income and expenses postings into the various ledger.
• Perform a review of the work done by all other account staff to ensure accuracy in all the company’s ledgers.
•  Reconciliation of all dollar cash and bank accounts.
• Maintain directors ledgers; investments, payments, and drawings.
• Preparation reports on the company’s liabilities from time to time.
• Advise the vendors on various relevant withholding taxes
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Competency/Skill/Requirements

• At least a bachelor's degree in a related field
• Between 5-7 years of related work experience is required. Hospitality industry experience is a must.
• Must be a chartered accountant.
• Astute use of Sage accounting software a strong advantage.
• Supervisory experience required.
• Ability to work to strict deadlines.
• Ability to deliver quality and accurate output.
• Excellent reporting skills.
• Attention to details
• Must be deadline-oriented
• Ability to manage time effectively
• The applicant must be diligent and possess a high level of integrity.