Finance Assistant / Accounts Assistant
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Role Overview
The Finance Assistant / Accounts Assistant supports day-to-day accounting operations and end-to-end financial workflows across the organization.
The role reports to the Finance Manager or Lead Accountant and coordinates with management, department heads, clients, vendors, auditors, and banks.
The position requires accurate transaction processing, asset safeguarding, governance compliance, and confidentiality with sensitive financial data.
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Role Overview
The Finance Assistant / Accounts Assistant supports day-to-day accounting operations and end-to-end financial workflows across the organization.
The role reports to the Finance Manager or Lead Accountant and coordinates with management, department heads, clients, vendors, auditors, and banks.
The position requires accurate transaction processing, asset safeguarding, governance compliance, and confidentiality with sensitive financial data.
Accounts Payable
- Receive, verify, and log vendor invoices, utility statements, and contractor claims.
- Perform three-way matching of invoices against purchase orders and goods received or delivery documents.
- Prepare payment runs, schedule electronic funds transfers, monitor recurring payments, and respond to vendor queries.
Accounts Receivable
- Issue tax invoices, credit notes, and sales statements in a timely and accurate manner.
- Monitor customer accounts, prepare aging reports, track outstanding balances, and conduct systematic collections.
- Reconcile customer ledgers, resolve billing discrepancies, and apply wire, check, and card receipts to correct accounts.
Reconciliations and Treasury Support
- Perform daily and monthly reconciliations for corporate bank accounts, merchant payment gateways, and petty cash.
- Investigate unposted transactions, bank charges, timing differences, and unauthorized charges, then resolve variances.
- Review employee expense claims, credit card statements, and petty cash disbursements against company policies.
Financial Close and Tax Support
- Post standard journal entries, calculate accruals and prepayments, update fixed asset registers, and reconcile intercompany transactions.
- Maintain general ledger schedules and prepare preliminary balance sheets and trial balances for review.
- Compile and archive documentation for sales, value-added, withholding, and corporate tax filings.
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree or professional diploma in accounting, finance, business administration, or a closely related field.
- Hands-on experience in full-cycle accounts payable and accounts receivable operations is required.
- Experience with bank, merchant, and petty cash reconciliations, journal entries, and general ledger maintenance is required.
- Advanced-intermediate Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets proficiency is required, including lookup functions, Pivot Tables, and logical formulas.
- Working knowledge of tax regulations, tax invoicing, withholding tax, and anti-money laundering principles is required.
- Accounting qualifications such as ACCA Foundations, CAT, CIMA, or CPA equivalents are viewed favorably.
Systems and Professional Skills
- Practical knowledge of accounting software and ERP systems such as QuickBooks, Xero, SAP, Oracle NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics 365, SQL Account, or AutoCount is desirable.
- The role requires strong communication, organization, analytical ability, attention to detail, ethical integrity, discretion, and resilience under deadlines.
- The role requires structured document management and complete audit trails for financial transactions.
Workplace
- The source metadata identifies the workplace type as onsite.
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