Job Vacancy For a Company Accountant in Zambia: konnectconsult

Role Purpose

• Manage timely and accurate financial, statutory and tax accounting processes and financial compliance for the company.
• Full accountability of local statutory, company reporting and tax books: – Sustain high standards on verification of assets and liabilities in the balance sheets, review and approve financial tax & statutory accounting schedules, ensure compliance to standardized accounting, reporting and financial systems as well as policies and procedures.
• To ensure governance models are working and related processes are fully compliant with company and local policies/regulations
• Financial Compliance, ensuring a good internal controls framework & ultimately accountable for following through on all relevant compliance issues;
• Accountable to coordinate Tax audits and external audits. Facilitating role for internal audits and in case of findings accountable to ensure corrective actions are taken.
• Supporting the functions budgeting exercise – creating scenarios and modelling KPIs
• Responsible to create and maintain effective control on costs.

Qualifications

Critical success factors & key challenges

• Meet all local statutory and tax requirements
• No significant external and tax audit issues
• Effective governance model in place facilitating effective company and local compliance
• Strong communication and relation with local management and other stakeholders

Knowledge, experience & capabilities

Critical knowledge

• Good understanding of local Generally Accepted Accounting Policies
• Good understanding of legal entity governance framework
• Good understanding of business end to end processes and internal controls necessary to safeguard the Company’s assets.
• Local tax rules
• Experience in working in multi-national organizations (ideally with matrix structure) with emphasis communicating and decision making with demonstrated ability to work under pressure.

Critical experience

• Qualified Accountant i.e. CIMA, ACA, ACCA, CPA or equivalent
• Minimum 4 years experience in relevant roles
• Keen demonstrated strengths in unquestionable integrity and trustworthiness.
• Experience in working in multinational organizations with emphasis on communicating and decisionmaking with demonstrated ability to work under pressure. Must be motivated by interdependency.

Critical technical, professional and personal capabilities

• Credible with local senior management and comfortable with expressing his views or putting alternate point of view in a constructive way.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Have a good sense for business – Understanding business

Critical leadership capabilities

• Manages team for Performance while ensuring high standards
• Service Mindset
• Ability to communicate with diverse senior stakeholders
• Creating effective network inside and outside of the company

Mode of application

Please send application and cv to : [email protected] by 19th December 2018 before close of business.