Position: ACCOUNTANT.
Deadline: 25 Dec 2021.
Date posted: 12 Dec 2021.
Location:Dar es Salaam.
Description:
Job Summary
- Supporting the Finance department, Finance Manager and management team by completing routine clerical and accounting tasks. Preparing monthly management accounts, budgets, maintaining reports, and completing necessary bookkeeping and accounting duties for the company. Other duties shall include but not limited to processing and recording transactions, preparing reports and budgets, fielding communications with clients and vendors, fact checking, filing, and other duties, as needed.
- To collect all payments by accepting cash, cheques, bank transfers and other cash transactions such as banking (In and Outflow Cash),swiping for customers as well as giving out change and making sure that all sales are received in the system and money should be banked accurately each day, recording all sales in daily sales summary, keeping petty cash and accounting for it, preparing tax registration for all tax petty cash monthly/weekly form, printing and checking of bank statements for easy planning of payments and the modes of payments to be made, petty cash refunds and record keeping.
Main Tasks & Responsibilities
- Prepare Management Accounts
- Prepare VAT and Process it on line
- Posting Bank deposits in Pastel Cash book
- Prepare Telegraphic Transfers (TT) and submit to the bank
- Delivery of all correspondence that pertains transfers, direct debits, complaints, etc to the bank
- Completing financial reports on a regular basis and providing information to the finance team. Liaise with statutory bodies on statutory requirements
- Maintaining of suppliers list
- Ensuring all bills that pertain to electricity, telephone, water etc are paid for whenever they are due
- Preparation of all payment that are due
- Ordering Cheque Books, Cheque and Cash Deposit Books, Telegraphic Transfer Forms and all other bank documents whenever the current ones are about to finish
- Ensuring all suppliers invoices due in the payment plan are paid
- Completing bank reconciliations. Review salaries and prepare approval sheet
- Reviewing computer reports for accuracy and meticulously tracing errors back to their source
- Communicate with revenue authority, banks and any other third parties
- Ensuring all cheque payments and transfers have the necessary invoices and other attachments before they are filed in the respective files
- Ensuring bank balances are communicated to the Finance Manager / Supervisor or the General Manager upon update on daily basis
- Preparation of Petty Cash Books for Head Office
- Perform any other duties assigned by superiors from time to time
- Accepting payments from customers in the form of cash, cheques, debit cards, etc
- Check up and record all daily financial transactions (record keeping) and prepare a report which is handed-in following morning
- Receive and check cash from customers, then issue invoices or receipts to the customers on behalf of the Company
- Counter check the petty cash and prepare a summary of the petty cash
- Balance the cash at hand with all cash receipts by end of day
- Create customer deposits and advances for existing and new receivables account
- Preparing payments to the company’s suppliers of goods and services
- Preparation of vat returns
- Prepare the tax registration form
- Preparing delivery notes and issuing out tax invoices
- Approving of delivery notes in the system
- Reconciliations of company petty cash and refunds for both head office and branch
- Recording of petty cash expenses for head office
- Preparation of bank statements for easy planning of payments of goods and services
- In charge of creating the tax registration form
- Preparation of reports (weekly & Monthly)
- In charge of Creating customer deposits, advances and receivables accounts
Requirements
- Degree or above in Finance/ Accounts qualifications. CPA (T) is a plus
- At least 5 years working experience in busy environment
- Honesty and efficient
- Excellent professionalism
- Must be able to enjoy work whilst working with customers to provide excellent customer service
- Trained in finance
- Integrity, strong sense of responsibility, rigorous style, hard working and carefully
- Strong communication and coordination skills