Job Description – Accounts Officer
SolarNow aims to be client-centric, a leading brand & have happy staff.
In Accounts we ensure financial health by providing insights through 1) timely, transparent, timely, accurate information on costs and 2) with (internal) control, reports, budgeting & analysis.
Responsibilities
Input: Execute your assigned work in a diligent and structured manner. This is an indication of how hard your
Satisfaction: Offer excellent (internal) client care. This indicates if your work is appreciated by receiver.
Efficiency: By minimizing wrong posting impacts and by creating insights to the company on financial health, to allow others to influence.
Tasks
Your SOP’s (standard operational procedures) are described in your Desk & Staff Manual. Note the requirement for a daily team meeting, providing client cards, do regional meetings and go on a monthly Client Field visit.
- Payables You post payments to customers’ accounts, verify and file bank statements.
- You reconcile client balances, staff advances, prepayments & prepare bad debt provisions.
- Receivable Once a potential client demonstrates concrete interest, you give the best advice possible for that client.
- Tax/Audit Managing Audit: You prepare/provide audit info; enforce internal controls & compliance
- Taxes: You file TAX returns (PAYE, WHT, VAT, NSSF, NHIF) and correspond with authorities
- Stock You manage average cost prices, correct VAT on Vatable stock items, carryout physical stock counts and reconciliations with the stock listing as per SAS.
- Financial Management Bank & Cash flow: You prepare bi-weekly cash flow plan. Correspond with banks. Maintain accurate bank balances. Reconcile cash received through MM on behalf of SNUG and SAFI.
- Budgeting: Keep track of company budget & desk expenditure reports. Do SWOT on the internal controls surrounding the budgetary process
- Assets: Book assets in SAS; maintain fixed asset register; do asset verification & disposal
- Reporting: You prepare the balance sheet, income statements, statement of changes in Equity and notes to the financial statements. Prepare internal and external monthly reports. Maintain balance sheet schedules for cash/salary advances, security funds & prepayments. payments.