Accounts Payable Accountant at Savannah Energy

Job Purpose/Objectives 

• Leads the accounts payable process. Liaise with treasury on vendor payments and queries.

Job & Main Specifications

• First degree in any discipline preferably in Accounting or any other finance/ business related discipline.
• 0 to 3 years relevant experience.
• Studying towards a professional qualification (e.g. ICAN, ACCA, CIMA, etc).
• Good knowledge of accounting procedures, policies, rules, and practices affecting the development, maintenance, and control of fiscal record keeping systems.
• Good knowledge of methods and techniques for coding, verifying, balancing, and reconciling accounting records.
• Proficient in the use of MS Office applications such as spread sheet, word processing and databases.
• Working knowledge of a financial accounting system.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Carry out invoice receipting, processing, 3-way matching.
• Provide transactional finance support to the Gas (commercial) operations on invoices and preparation of journals in line with accounting journals procedures. 
• Conduct accounts payable approval of debit card retirements and expense claims.
• Ensure prompt preparation of all assigned monthly account schedules and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Provide support for month end/quarterly/yearly reporting duties. 
• Conduct daily transaction accounting, including preparation of accounting journals in line with accounting journals procedures.
• Maintain detailed listing of suppliers' and accruals schedules.
• Attend to and ensure that all queries on payment processing are promptly resolved/escalated to relevant parties. 
• Perform any other roles as may be required by the Financial Controller towards effective functioning of the Accounts Payable unit in particular and the Finance department in general.