Duties and Responsibilities

1. Performs the General Accounting activities of journalizing, posting, cross-referencing, adjusting entries, correcting entries, closing entries, determining account balances, testing accounting activities for accuracy, summarizing accounting records on work sheets and other working papers in preparation to produce financial reports; follows up the due dates and other status of receivables and payables; reconcile subsidiary ledger accounts with general ledger accounts; 

2. Verifies that journal entries of financial transactions agree with the entries and particulars of the respective source documents;

3. Regularly tests account balances for overstatement, understatement, transposing, omission and other possible clerical errors to keep the book of accounts reliable and updated;

4. Makes reference and cross-reference of all source documents to the ledger account codes, keeps and updates financial records;

5. Reconciles  bank statements against the company’s book of accounts;

6. Verifies that all unpaid salaries are returned to the cashier and redeposit, journalizes payroll, and verifies clearance of salary advances and payroll fund account;

7. Follows up that taxes and insurance payments and collections are handled on time, verifies that insurance claims are submitted in respect of all missing/damaged goods and checks correctness of claim computations;

8. Reviews, analyses and summarizes petty cash data;

9. Reviews customer accounts and ensures that appropriate accounting records are maintained;

10. Performs client account reconciliation and prepares statement of account to refund the balance due to clients or collect outstanding balance from clients;

11. Compiles and verifies proper payroll input data and other legal payments to workers for periodical preparation of the payroll;

12. Performs other job related duties as required by the immediate supervisor.

13. Competencies /Knowledge, Ability and Skill       

• The job holder is expected to have very good ability to interact and positively influence others

• The job holder is expected to have ability to effectively describe and explain issues and events; competence to express ideas clearly in writing or otherwise. 

• The job holder is expected to be a first mover and actively tries to influence events to achieve goals; a self-starter who tries to achieve goals beyond minimal levels of performances.

• The job holder is expected to maintain high and acceptable level of ethical standard.

• The job holder is expected to set stretched level of performance, not satisfied with average performance.

Job Requirements

Required educational background & work experience: BA degree in Accounting, Computer Application and Peachtree Accounting and 3 years related work experience

How To Apply

Interested and qualified applicants who meet the above minimum requirement can send their application letter and CV through Ethiojobs.net within Five(5) consecutive working days of the announcement.  Bole Medhanealem, on the way to Atlas road, beside Ethio Telecom branch office, Meti building 4th floor.