Senior Final Accounts Officer (FMG/AT 3)

Key Responsibilities

Technical/Professional: 

• Ensures that all accounts receivable, accounts payable, income receivable, accruals, prepayments, receipts, lodgments, payments, depreciation provision, other provisions, etc. are accurately and properly brought to account in the period to which they relate; 
• Ensures that all Journal Vouchers for salary, advance clearance and other adjustments in respect of the month have been correctly posted and are properly reflected in the accounts;
• Ensures that all manual cheques and cheque cancellations have been properly brought to account; 
• Ensures that original estimates, supplementary estimates, and revenue estimates are properly brought to account under the relevant Heads; 
• Ensures that warrant issues, warrant transfers, warrant adjustments and cash advances are properly brought to account under the relevant Heads; 
• Prints and checks the financial accounts and management accounts for accuracy and completeness; 
• Resolves all errors found and gives to Final Accounts Manager for checking;
• Prints, signs and submits relevant financial statements for all Heads then submits in respect to the closed periods;
• Posts direct bank debit and direct Bank Credit Journal Vouchers to the FINMAN System in relation to payments paid by Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) on a monthly basis for Grants to the Municipal Corporations and other expenditure in excess of the RTGS threshold; 
• Performs any other related duties that may be assigned from time to time. 

Required Knowledge, Skills and Competencies

Core: 

• Good interpersonal and people management skills; 
• Excellent oral and written communication skills; 
• Customer quality focus skills; 
• Sound integrity/ethics exercised in the performance of duties. 

Functional: 

• Excellent technical skills; 
• Excellent use of computerized accounting systems. 

Minimum Required Qualification and Experience

• AAT Level 3; or 
• ACCA-CAT Level C/Level 3; or 
• ACCA Level 1; or 
• NVQJ Level 3, Accounting; or 
• Diploma in Accounting from an accredited University or Community College; or
• ASc. Degree in Business Studies/Business Administration from an accredited tertiary Institution; or 
• Asc. Degree in Accounting, MIND; or 
• Diploma in Government Accounting, MIND, Government Accounting Levels 1, 2 & 3; or
• BSc. Degree in Accounting or Management Studies with Accounting; or
• BBA Degree; or 
• Successful completion of three (3) years of any of the Bachelor’s Degree programmes mentioned above.

Please note that only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.