Summary

The Accounting Officer is responsible for reviewing and overseeing the work of junior accounting staff, ensuring accuracy and compliance in bookkeeping, reconciliations, and other financial processes. This role manages the day-to-day review of transactions, reconciliations, and operational financial tasks, and assists with the preparation of monthly and annual reports, schedules, and other financial documentation.

Key Responsibilities

• Bookkeeping and Data Entry Review: Review and verify bookkeeping and data entry performed by junior staff to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with company policies. Identify discrepancies, provide feedback, and ensure corrections are made in a timely manner.
• Accounts Payable and Receivable Review: Review invoices and bill postings prepared by clerks to ensure accuracy, proper coding, and compliance with company policies. Review monthly reconciliations of payables and receivables, identify discrepancies, and ensure timely resolution.
• Financial Reporting: Assist with preparing management reports and related schedules.
• Reconciliations: Reviewing and Support: Review bank reconciliations to ensure accuracy and completeness, identify and address variances, and provide oversight on reconciling items. Assist with app and other balance sheet reconciliations as needed, ensuring issues are properly investigated and resolved
• Budgeting and Forecasting: Assist with accumulating data needed to prepare budgets and projections
• Audits: Assisting with preparation of schedules, documents and requests from auditors.
• SOPs and Internal Controls: Support and Maintenance: Assist with the development, review, and updating of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to ensure processes remain accurate and effective. Support junior staff with guidance on internal controls and ensure adherence to established procedures.
• Fixed Asset Register: Update register and calculate depreciation. Maintain a file for audit purposes.
• Support: Provide assistance with various accounting tasks and projects as needed.
• Problem-solving: Assist with resolving internal variances and discrepancies and help guide junior staff when addressing external queries from Merchants, Customers, Drivers. 
• Banking: Assist with preparing wire transfers and other bank documents. Updating weekly and monthly bank statements for posting and record keeping.
• Records Management: Assist with ensuring accounting records, both physical and cloud based, are properly maintained

Job Requirements

·         Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field

·         2–4 years of experience in bookkeeping or accounting roles

·         Experience supervising or mentoring junior team members (formally or informally) and reviewing their work

·         Hands-on experience with bank reconciliations, accounts payable/receivable, and general ledger postings

·         Experience using accounting software such as QuickBooks or Zoho Books, with strong proficiency in Google Sheets

·         Strong understanding of accounting principles (IFRS or GAAP)

·         Experience preparing and reviewing financial reports, reconciliations, and supporting documentation for audits

·         Ability to follow and enforce SOPs and internal controls while maintaining a proactive, hands-on approach to ad hoc tasks

·         Experience working in a multi-location or multi-currency environment is an asset