Job Roles and Responsibilities: 

• Compile and analyse financial information to prepare financial statements including monthly and annual accounts
• Ensure all financial reporting deadlines are met
• Prepare financial management reports
• Ensure accurate and timely monthly, quarterly and year end close is done
• Monitor the implementation and maintenance of accounting control procedures
• Resolve accounting discrepancies and irregularities
• Continuous management and support of budget and forecast activities, including the comparison of budgeted costs to actual costs
• Compute taxes owed and prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting and other tax requirements
• Develop and maintain financial data base
• Ensure tax reporting, payment and follow-up is done according to Government Regulation
• Submitting financial report to Inland Revenue after accounts are closed by Auditors
• Raising daily sales of top up and other sales by cash register machine generating from system (Jasper) and prints out Z report once every twenty-four hours.
• Posting of all sales (corporate customers, system out puts, cost of sales, air time commission sale...), CRV,JVS
• Check payments before CPV is approved and ensure that enough balance is maintained at the bank.
• Checking coding and posting of CPVs
• Reconciling MFI account with ledger balance
• Reconciling bank statement with ledger balance at the end of the month (Euro & Birr) accounts
• Reconciliation of stock and maintaining and updating fixed asset register.
• Checking/Preparing monthly payroll of zonal and permanent staffs, zonal staffs, commission payments and those payments which needs additional mathematical computation for payment.
• Check that income tax, pension, withholding, VAT taxes are appropriately settled each month
• Preparing cost accumulation sheet
• Petty cash management of both RSS and HQ
• Preparing checks and check payment voucher
• Performs any other related task as requested by immediate supervisor. 

Reports to:

• Fiance Manager 

Required Knowledge, skills and Behaviour

• Robust understanding of Ethiopian tax, audit, corporate and accountancy regulations
• Knowledge in preparing reports, facilitating meetings, and other correspondence, processing Accounts Payable and Receivable, and handling inquiries from customers or supervisors
• Experience in reconciliation and analysis of various balance sheet accounts
• Experience to work independently with limited supervision
• Problem analysis: proven judgement and problem-solving
• Excellent multi-tasker
• Attention to detail & accuracy
• Strong communications & interpersonal skills
• Ability to treat people with respect under all circumstances, instil trust in others besides upholding the values of the Organisation
• Ability to work well as part of a team- to exhibit objectivity and be open-minded towards the ideas and views of others, give as well as welcome feedback, contribute to building team spirit, aid others to succeed
• Fluency in written and oral English and Amharic is essential

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
• 5 years’ experience and working with different accounting software including Peachtree.