Accountant

Job Summary

Under the supervision of the Admin & Finance manager, the Accountant expedites and facilitates the preparation of annual budget for income and expenditure and annual forecast of cash flow for Center; compiles budget implementation data, conducts variance analysis and produces evaluation reports with appropriate recommended courses of action; verifies that supporting documents and vouchers are duly approved by authorized personnel of the Center before payment and registration; performs journalizing, posting, cross-referencing, adjusting entries, correcting entries, closing entries, determining account balances, testing accounting activities for accuracy; reconciles bank statements against records of the Center; reviews, analyses and summarizes petty cash recording and data; prepares schedule of subsidiary ledger accounts and chart of general ledger accounts; carries out inventory control activities of the Center and participates in stocktaking, prepares interim and regular financial reports.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

• Participates and assists in formulating internal control policies and procedures for administration and finance matters of the Center.
• Follows up timely deposits and withdrawal of pension fund.
• Follows up budget requisition, consolidation, endorsement and implementation matters of the Center are in accordance with pre-established regulatory framework.
• Compiles budget implementation data, conducts variance analysis and produces evaluation reports with appropriate recommended courses of action.
• Codifies and registers payments and receivables or revenues in the respective journals.
• Verifies that supporting documents and vouchers are duly approved by authorized personnel of the Center before payment and registration.
• Performs journalizing.
• Gathers the necessary information to calculate unit cost and prepare journal voucher.
• Prepares journal vouchers from register books.
• Makes reference and cross-reference of all source documents to the ledger account codes.
• Reviews, analyses and summarizes petty cash recording and data.
• Assists external auditors in providing the necessary documents for audit review.
• Operates a computer, calculator and other common office machines used for encoding, computing, and analyzing financial transactions and producing financial reports.
• Regularly tests account balances for overstatement, understatement, transposing, omission, and other possible clerical errors to keep the book of accounts reliable and updated.
• Carries out inventory control activities of the Center and participates in stocktaking.
• Executes audit review feedback given on the books of accounts and accounting practices of the Center.
• Prepares timely sales invoices for customers.
• Record stocks on stock cards, reconcile with bin card records, periodic inventory & report discrepancies if any.
• Performs other related duties and responsibilities of the job as assigned by the Admin & Finance manager.

Education and Experience

• Second/First degree in Accounting/ Accounting & Finance/ Finance.
• Training in accounting software application.
• 4/6 years related work experience.

Skills Required:

• Accounting / Finance