Finance Officer at VerifyMe

Position Overview

• VerifyMe (VM) is helping Africans grow with trust, through identity verification and authentication. With over 80 million identity verifications every year, we are the trusted name when it comes to helping Africans ensure the identity of individuals, employees or business prospects checks out.
• Reporting directly to the Finance Manager and the Chief Executive Officer. The accountant is responsible for documenting financial transactions by entering account information and providing financial information to management by researching and analyzing of accounting data.
• The accountant maintains high ethical standards, prepares tax returns and carry out internal audit to investigate organizational fraud.
• The accountant ensures that financial records are maintained in compliance with lawful and accepted procedures and policies on the corporate level.

Responsibilities

• Overall responsibility for data entry into accounting system and integrity of accounting system data
• Documentation of all source and accounting records.
• Process invoices.
• Maintains general ledger.
• Prepares periodic and monthly financial reports.
• Reconciles all bank accounts.
• Manages Accounts Payable.
• Manages Accounts Receivable.
• Reviews and maintains all reimbursements and fund requests.
• Other responsibilities as assigned by the Finance Manager, Chief Executive Officer.

Minimum Requirements

The successful candidate must possess a thorough knowledge of basic accounting procedures and principles, experience with creating financial statements, experience with general ledger functions and the month-end/year end close process.

In addition, the right candidate must have.

• BSc/BA in any relevant field, such as Accounting and bookkeeping, Finance or Economics.
• Minimum 1 year experience in managing all financial transactions.
• Commitment to learning and development.
• Strong attention to detail and good analytical skills.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Hands-on approach, with a ‘can-do’ attitude.
• Self-motivated.
• Tenacious and results driven with sound business judgement.
• Ability to work collaboratively with other to provide a high-quality service.
• Ability to prioritize.
• Time management skills.
• Teamwork.
• Adaptable.
• Proactiveness/Productive.
• Negotiation skills.
• Aptitude for numbers and quantitative skills.
• Excellent accounting software user and administration skills.
• Intermediate understanding of accounting and reporting standards.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office suites, especially Excel.
• Great time management skills.