Senior Accountant needed at the Confederation of African Football (CAF).
JOB TITLE: Senior Accountant
JOB LOCATION: Africa
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JOB DETAILS:
Senior Accountant who can contribute to CAF’s overall success by handling the following duties:
- Support adequate Preparation of financial statements on tight due dates
- Ensure that appropriate implementation of accounting Standards (IFRS)
- Manage the accounting functions, including the general ledger accounts, and their registration
- Post and process journal entries to ensure all business transactions are recorded
- Support handling A/P, A/R and their registration
- Update financial data in databases to ensure that the information will be accurate and immediately available when needed
- Support Budget Preparation in details
- Establish contact with all related departments and parties to gather data and information
- Structure a reliable, flexible, and easy to deal with Budget formats covering all concerned items
- Consolidate all Budget gathered financial information to issue CAF’s Budget
- Prepare and submit periodic Financial reports, including Budget reports (Actual Verses Budget)
- Analyse variances of actual verses budget with justifying reasons, (Calculate budget variances and report significant problems)
- Periodic update (monthly) on the status of the budget for each concerned department in relation to actual incurred amounts
- Authorize and approve all payments and incurred expenses with the set Budget
- Revisit initially issued Budget in the light of actual or new circumstances or events, and which may lead to issuance of an updated Budget
- Support the Finance Department in the preparation of monthly/quarterly/yearly closings,
- Reinforce financial data confidentiality and conduct database backups when necessary,
- Handle the requirements of external auditors
- Supervise, direct, and manage accountants in the Finance team
- Adhere to CAF’s set Rules and Regulations
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, and/or Finance
- Master’s Degree or CPA or Accounting equivalent preferred
- From 5 to 7 years of experience preferably in multinational or big local companies (Group companies with subsidiaries)
- Exposure, awareness, knowledge, and experience of financial statements preparations, IFS, and latest changes, financial reporting, general accounting knowledge, and accounting treatments and entries
- Preferably Audit experience in one of the big 4 Audit Firms
- Fluent in English and/or French
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Note: Only applications matching the requirements listed above will be considered
Deadline: September 19, 2020
Job Features
Job Category | Accounting / Audit / Finance |