Position Title: Sr. Accountant – Reporting & Analysis
Employer: Safaricom Telecommunication Ethiopia
Employment: Full-Time | Permanent
Place of Work: Addis Ababa - Ethiopia
Posted date: 2 months ago
Deadline: Submission date is over
Job Description
We are seeking a Senior Accountant to lead financial reporting and analysis, ensuring compliance with IFRS standards and providing insights through data visualization and profit and loss analysis.
Responsibilities
Role Purpose
The Senior Accountant will be responsible for delivering timely and accurate financial reporting, ensuring compliance with accounting standards (including IFRS), and providing insights into business performance through:
- Profit and loss analysis
- Data visualization
- Reporting
Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities
Financial Reporting & Analysis
- Review monthly Profit and Loss (P&L) with respective section leads.
- Organize balance sheet reviews with FC and maintain a tracker of action points.
- Perform analytical review of financial results to identify trends, variances, and anomalies.
- Consolidate and review financial data for accuracy.
- Deliver management summary reports with clear narratives on business performance drivers.
- Support the preparation of annual financial statements in accordance with IFRS and local statutory requirements.
Compliance & Controls
- Ensure compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
- Apply and monitor accounting treatments under IFRS 16 (Leases).
- Support internal and external audit processes.
Month-End Close & Timetable Monitoring
- Monitor and coordinate the month-end close timetable.
- Track progress of close activities across multiple teams.
- Maintain a month-end calendar.
- Communicate progress and potential bottlenecks to management.
Data & Visualization
- Develop dashboards and reports using tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or Excel.
- Drive automation and standardization of reporting processes.
- Translate complex financial data into meaningful visual insights.
Process Improvement
- Identify opportunities to improve Record-to-Report processes.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to align financial reporting processes.
Core Competencies, Knowledge, and Experience
Business Competencies
- Consciously takes steps to make the most of every conversation.
- Identifies people’s needs, interests, and motives.
- Communicates simply to excite and engage people.
- Pro-actively adapts own style and approach.
- Builds and maintains strong relationships and networks.
Operational Excellence
- Targets effort and resources on high-value activities.
- Focuses on achieving maximum performance.
- Thinks about processes and problems cross-functionally.
- Uses knowledge of products and processes to solve problems.
Creativity and Innovation
- Finds creative ways to exploit opportunities.
- Takes risks and pushes what is possible.
Business Know-How
- Uses data and research to make decisions.
- Balances current and future needs.
- Thinks and acts like an owner of the business.
- Acts in line with legal and ethical standards.
Working with Change
- Responds flexibly to changing situations.
- Manages the business and people aspects of change.
Project and Program Management
- Defines scope and deliverables.
- Schedules activity and identifies resource needs.
- Evaluates progress and mitigates risks.
Functional Competencies
Accounting
- Prepares, analyses, and summarizes financial data.
- Ensures the integrity of processes and systems.
Reporting
- Delivers timely and accurate reports.
- Identifies key performance and variances.
Data Analytic
- SQL for data extraction, transformation, and reporting
- Python for data analysis, visualization, and process automation
- Advanced Excel and reporting tools (Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent)
Key Performance Indicators:
- Full support for P&L and Balance Sheets
- Quality AFS which are IFRS compliant
- Standardizing Reporting Templates
- Audit-ready Financial Statements
- Timely Reporting - Closing lead time: Average days taken to close books versus target
- BSR Report by 10th of Every Month
Qualifications
- Accounting or related Finance bachelor’s degree from a recognized university; ACCA will be an added advantage
- 5-6 years’ experience in Reporting and Analysis, financial reporting, or accounting roles in a multinational or shared services environment
- Delivers timely and accurate reports to satisfy statutory and business requirements
- Identifies key performance and variances, and provides recommendations
- Expertise and commercial awareness to deliver value-added solutions
- Strong knowledge of IFRS, with demonstrated experience in IFRS 16 lease accounting
- Experience in preparation of annual financial statements under IFRS
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