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Senior Finance Analyst and GL Accountant

Habesha Breweries S.C. HQ

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Finance

Accounting

Addis Ababa

4 years - 6 years

1 Position

2025-05-26

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2025-05-31

Required Skills

prepare audit activities

manage backlogs

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Fields of study

Accounting

Finance

Full Time

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Job Description

As a Senior Finance Analyst & GL Accountant, you will safeguard the integrity of Habesha Breweries’ general ledger, ensure flawless reconciliations and account-clearing, and provide analytical insight that powers better business decisions. You will also act as the finance focal point on our SAP S/4HANA programme, helping to modernise processes and controls across the brewery.

Key Responsibilities

Area What You’ll Do

General Ledger Control

Post and review complex journal entries and perform daily trial-balance (TB) health checks.

Own month-end and year-end close checklists, ensuring on-time, error-free completion.

Maintain IFRS-compliant GL structures and mapping tables.

Account Reconciliation & Clearing

Prepare and reconcile vendor, bank, GR/IR, and condition accounts; resolve aged items promptly.

Perform detailed vendor-aging reviews, engage with AP and procurement to clear backlogs.

Support the Finance Specialist – Internal Controls in daily bank-reconciliation activities.

Process Costing & Analysis

Execute monthly process-costing runs; analyse variances and investigate bottlenecks revealed by TB health checks.

Produce ad-hoc cost and margin analyses to support production and supply-chain teams

Compliance & Internal Controls

Monitor adherence to IFRS, company policies, and audit requirements.

Help design and track remediation plans for any control gaps.

Contribute to developing compliance dashboards and periodic control self-assessments.

SAP S/4HANA Support

Provide clean master-data files, mapping templates, and reconciliation packs for migration.

Participate in UAT, document test scripts, and log defects for the finance work-stream.

Prepare concise status updates and risk logs for project stakeholders.

Reporting

Compile monthly reconciliation packs and GL analytics for management and external auditors.

Produce compliance and internal-control performance reports.

Generate data-driven insights to aid strategic and operational decision-making.

Job Requirements

Required Qualifications & Experience
  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.

  • 4 – 6 years of progressive accounting/analysis experience, ideally in FMCG or manufacturing.

  • Strong working knowledge of SAP FI/CO; exposure to S/4HANA migration is an advantage.

  • Proven mastery of IFRS, month-end close, and reconciliation best practices.

  • Advanced Excel skills; familiarity with BI/reporting tools is preferred.

  • Professional certification (ACCA, CPA, or CMA) underway or completed is desirable.

How To Apply

Qualified candidates can apply via THIS LINK

Fields Of Study

Accounting

Finance

Skills Required

prepare audit activities

manage backlogs

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