• Company: Chambeshi Water and Sewerage Company
• Location: Lusaka, Lusaka Province, Zambia
• State: Lusaka
• Job type: Full-Time
• Job category: Accounting Jobs in Zambia

Job Title: Financial Accountant

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Prepares daily cash flow statements for management based on daily bank balances.
• Prepares consolidated financial performance reports out of the weekly, fortnightly and monthly district reports, for management decision making.
• Prepares statements of expenditure monthly for the information of the Director of Finance.
• Checks and verifies all payments to ensure that they have required accompanying documents and for correctness and approvals before processing payment.
• Ensures preparation of Company payroll and payment of correct salaries on due dates and that statutory (PAYE, NAPSA) and other deductions are affected.
• Ensures timely payments of general and payments to suppliers when funds are available based on the planned sequence.
• Checks that all requisitions for payments are accrued, signed and posted on the Pastel Accounting system before they are paid in order to reflect all the liabilities that are due.
• Verifies accounting data held in Pastel System journals, before it is posted to ledgers.
• Supervises, appraises, coaches, trains, disciplines and motivates subordinates in order to achieve unit objectives thereby contribute to the achievement of Company objectives and overall MWSC mandate.
• Performs any other related duties as assigned by the supervisor from time to time.

Qualifications and Experience

• Full Grade 12 School Certificate.
• Degree in Accountancy or Final part professional accounting qualification such as ACCA, CIMA and equivalent
• Member of the Zambia Institute of Chartered Accountants (ZICA)
• Minimum 3 years, preferably in a commercial environment

Required competencies/Personal qualities:

• Very good knowledge of computers, able to handle accounting packages (preferably Pastel) and proficient in Microsoft Excel.
• Good supervisory skills.
• Good Planning skills
• Good interpersonal skills
• Good Analytical Skills

 

How to Apply

Closing date for receiving applications is 5th March, 2018. Those who meet the above qualifications and are interested can forward their applications, CVs and copies of their Academic and Professional Qualifications to:

Managing Director Chambeshi Water and Sewerage Company Limited P.O. Box 410397

KASAMA or E-Mail: [email protected]. NB: only shortlisted candidates shall be acknowledged