Accounting Officer

Responsibilities: Financial Accounting & Ledger Integrity:  Record daily financial transactions, including sales, purchases, expenses, receipts, payments, and standard journal entries, ensuring correct period cut-off and supporting documentation. Maintain the general ledger and subsidiary ledgers, verifying that transactions are accurately classified by account code, entity, customer, supplier, cost center, project, and currency. Interrogate ledger activity to identify misclassified postings, duplicate entries, improper accounting logic, incorrect signs, or unsupported journal entries. Investigate identified accounting errors and propose corrective reclassification entries to senior management for approval.

Reconciliation & Dispute Investigation : Execute regular bank reconciliations, investigating unidentified receipts, payments, and stale reconciling items to ensure timely resolution. Reconcile assigned balance sheet accounts, including customer, supplier, intercompany, cash, advances, inventory, and expense accounts. Cross-check general ledger entries against underlying invoices, contracts, purchase orders, bank statements, and shipping records to verify complete audit trails. Monitor subledger-to-general-ledger balances, distinguish genuine timing differences from accounting errors, and drive open items to resolution.

Month-End Closing & Compliance Support:  Execute period-end closing tasks for assigned accounts to ensure all balances are fully reconciled and supported ahead of monthly financial reporting schedules. Prepare clear supporting schedules, account analyses, and audit files requested by internal leadership, external auditors, or statutory authorities. Enforce adherence to the organization's chart of accounts, internal approval matrices, accounting policies, and internal control frameworks. Escalate material discrepancies, recurring posting mistakes, unsupported balances, or unexplained accounting anomalies to supervisors with clear supporting evidence.

Requirements:  Bachelor's degree or diploma in Accounting, Finance (with an accounting concentration), or a closely related field with formal coursework in financial accounting principles. Certification in ACCA, CPA, or an equivalent professional body is an added advantage. Minimum of 3–4 years of relevant accounting, financial control, or audit experience. Relevant practical experience in bookkeeping, general accounting operations, financial reconciliation, or audit support suited to a junior-to-mid-level professional. Exposure to transaction-heavy or multi-entity business environments, such as trading, manufacturing, distribution, or retail, is an advantage. Hands-on experience operating within an ERP or enterprise accounting software environment. Proficiency in Microsoft Excel for data verification, lookup functions, basic formulas, and reconciliation schedules. Practical understanding of double-entry accounting mechanics, debit/credit logic, cut-off rules, and financial statement interrelationships. Strong accounting judgement and attention to detail. Financial control and reconciliation expertise. Analytical and investigative thinking. Ability to identify unusual patterns and challenge unsupported balances or transactions. Strong follow-up and issue-resolution discipline. Ability to distinguish genuine business movements from accounting errors. Clear written and verbal communication. High level of integrity, confidentiality, and ownership.