Account & Admin Officer at Peridot Forte Solutions Consulting

Responsibilities

• Manage the financial operations of the organization and ensure timely and accurate financial reports and practices including cash management, payroll, financial disbursements, ledgers etc.
• Manage financial control, develop financial reports, and make recommendations to the Organisation on budget expenditures.
• Monitor the expenditures to ensure that program funds are utilized appropriately by the close of the fiscal year.
• Provide financial inputs for logistics and other areas of administration.
• Preparation and submission of annual activity-based project budgets as well as monthly and quarterly financial reports
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date books of accounts
• Assist and/or lead budget development, account balance management, tax remittance, tax return compilation, and activity budget reviews
• Ensure proper documentation reviews of all payment requests and proper filing
• Make recommendations to improve payment request reviews, financial controls and policies, and workflow processes.
• Responsible for entering financial information and maintaining all financial records for projects and for the organization.
• Manage the office petty cash, reconcile and replenish regularly
• Manage the efficient running of the admin office daily operations.
• Managing contracts and price negotiations with office vendors and service providers
• Addressing employees' queries regarding office management issues (e.g. stationery)
• Tracking the utilization of office consumables, and order consumables when needed

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting and Financial field.
• Minimum of 3 yearsrelevant experience in Accounting.
• ICAN/ACCA certification is an added advantage.
• Good knowledge of electronic Accounting tools such as Waveapp, Invoices, etc.
• Versatile with the use of Sage
• Experience in office administration
• Experience in financial reporting
• Experience in managing Nonprofit and Grants accounting is an added advantage
• Experience in Account preparation for members of senior management