Job Title: Head of Accounts and Finance

Reports to: Managing Partner/Partner

Supervises: Account Team

Internal Relations: Colleagues

External Relations: Clients

KEY JOB ROLES

Job Duties and Tasks:

• Ensures that financial accounting principles, practices, process and procedures are followed and timely reporting.
• Accurate record keeping and providing valuable financial information.
• Compute taxes owed and prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting and other tax requirements for all clients.
• Prepares asset, liability, and capital account entries, and maintains bookkeeping including tracking expenses and revenue, billing and invoicing, etc.
• Assist in providing external auditors with all required accounting information and manage GRA Audit issues.
• Responsible for Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) and Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) filings.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops and reviewing professional publications.
• Capturing data records into Quickbooks accounting software and generating reports
• Ability to prepare end of year financial statements from source documents.
• Ability to prepare budgets and conduct financial analysis.
• Ability to lead team and provide proper supervision.
• Maintains customer confidence and protects operations by keeping financial information confidential
• Accomplish result by performing assigned tasks and targets.
• Other duties that may be assigned.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Required Qualification:

• Bsc. Accounting/ Master’s in Accounting/ ACCA or other equivalent Professional Certification in relevant field with a minimum of 8 years’ experience in a similar position.

Required Skills and Knowledge:

• Proven accounting experience
• Conversant with the usage of accounting software’s
• Accuracy and attentive to details
• Aptitude for numbers and well organized
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience in dealing with GRA Audit Team, is a must.