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Senior Accountant

Washington Medical Center

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Finance

Accounting

Addis Ababa

5 years

1 Position

2025-02-26

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2025-03-08

Required Skills

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Fields of study

Accounting

Accounting & Finance

Full Time

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Job Description

ABOUT WASHINGTON HEALTHCARE 

Washington HealthCare Plc (WHC) is a specialized secondary care facility in Addis Ababa, providing quality and affordable healthcare to local and international communities. Managed by experienced Ethiopian, American, and visiting doctors, WMC opened in January 2015 and has since served over 120,000 patients. Initially an internal medicine specialty center, it offers 24-hour care with US and Ethiopian-trained doctors in sub-specialties like cardiology, neurology, and oncology. The center plans to expand into a multi-specialty service and ultimately a tertiary care hospital and medical school. 

Duties & Responsibilities:

  • Makes sure that every tax related calculations and proper deductions are correct before issuing of cheques and approval by the signatories.

  • Controls scheduled settlement of credit payables and records every payments according to basic principles of accounting. i.e.  Accrual basses of accounting, matching principles, principles of cost etc.

  • Checks, through random assessments, the status of petty cash, stock and inventories.

  • Makes sure all project related payment budgets are primarily set, and request a schedule at least a month or two with frequent communication with the finance manager.

  • Handles all payments to be settled on a proper way and recorded accordingly.

  • Controls scheduled settlement of credit payables and records every payments according to basic principles of accounting. i.e.  Accrual basses of accounting, matching principles, principles of cost etc.

  • Follow up all project related payments are settled and necessary approvals are made and subsequently facilitates the respective sales invoicing and delivery to customers.

  • Produces weekly, monthly, quarterly, semiannual and annual sales, report.

  • Prepares and delivers a summary of expected and recurrent expenses or project costs of the company at the beginning of every month with due communication with concerned department managers.

  • Receives supplier payment requests and respond them with proper payment schedule.

  • Follow ups activities of the accounts clerk and messenger, supports and guides upon needs.

  • Works in due collaboration with the finance team and gives due assistance as needs be.

  • Covers the tasks of other junior accountants in time of their absence

  • Prepares payrolls (ancillary and permanent staff) on monthly bases with due respect of up-to-date legal procedures, company’s financial manual and HR Manual and with reference to necessary documents from HR department and delivers to the concerned manager.

  • Prepares monthly reconciliation of bank disbursement, staff/none-staff debtors or creditors. 

  • Posts every payment to company’s accounting software and make recording for up-to-date report generation.

  • Posts every invoices and receipts to the existing accounting software every day and reconciles every tax payments with the record before effecting payments.

  • Develops the habit of horizontal communication for productive & integrated work-flows.

  • Works every professional tasks requested by the immediate manager.

  • Coordinating with the Accounting Officer during audits and annual forecasting

  • Keeps the confidentiality of company information with due respect.

  • Bachelor’s degree in accounting or accounting and finance with 5 years of experience

Job Requirements

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Bachelor’s degree in accounting or accounting and finance with 5 years of experience.

How to Apply

  • Interested and qualified applicants should apply through THIS LINK

Fields Of Study

Accounting

Accounting & Finance

Skills Required

check accounting records

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