Finance Officer at Structured Energy Systems Limited

Responsibilities

• Oversee the validation of transactions and verification of their overall impact on the general accounts.
• Review financial paperwork and procedures, provide recommendations, and make necessary changes.
• Ensure all expenses are within assigned project budget and verify the completeness of all required supporting documentation for all payments vouchers.
• Prepare payments, bank transfers, and do the bank transactions.
• Ensure timely and accurate monthly and year end closure of accounts, including bank reconciliation, and submit reports to the Finance Manager as per prescribed deadlines.
• Prepare invoice to the projects for services and cost share.
• Ensure account receivables and payables activities are performed accurately and timely.
• Identify and resolve invoicing issues, accounting discrepancies and other financial related issues.
• Ensure timely and effective follow up to audit observations and recommendations.
• Carry out periodic general ledger reconciliations and bank account reconciliations
• Carry out payroll entries on Odoo.
• Responsibly handling confidential information
• Ensure complete data storage and update of information on the AIS (Accounting Information System) and making sure data is efficiently organized.
• Accurately perform data entry tasks
• Assisting with other accounting-related duties.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance with minimum of 2 years’ relevant work experience.
• Work experience from reputable audit firms, international organizations, or donor organizations
• Strong technical and organizational skills in addition to excellent written and verbal communication skills, in a professional environment.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and handle numerous assignments simultaneously
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint).
• Strong organizational and time management skills.