Manager (Accounts and Finance)

Role & responsibilities

• Implements financial and accounting best practices and oversees critical accounting procedures to ensure legal compliance with financial reporting and banking regulations
• Leads planning and forecasting activities with business partners to achieve investment and accounting goals.
• Maintains and revises accounting systems as needed.
• Reviews financial reports and advises corrective action accordingly.
• Collects and analyses data to prepare financial forecasts and suggest strategies to address challenges and leverage strengths.
• Analyses revenue, expenses, cash flows, and balance sheets to optimize profitability and transparency.
• Assists and supports upper-level management to ensure sound financial decision-making that is in the long-term best interest of the organizational mission.
• Reviews and processes payments made to clients, vendors, and other business partners.
• Preparation of Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly financials Keeping books of account.
• Knowledge of Internal Audit and Statutory Audit

Skills

• Knowledge of accounting, economics, and financial principles
• Leadership and team-building skills
• Administrative and management skills
• Strong quantitative skills
• Thoroughness, attention to detail, and organizational skills
• Risk management skills
• Process-driven
• Critical thinking
• Communication and presentation skills
• Working, up-to-date knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
• Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously
• Capacity to read and comprehend large amounts of information quickly
• Confidentiality and discretion
• Adept at analysing data and information and recognizing patterns to build financial forecasting models
• Strategic decision making
• Financial modelling skills
• Facility with Microsoft Office Suite or other data analytics software