Job offer: Chief Accountant

Job offer: Chief Accountant

AFRICA FOOD IMPORT SA is looking for A CHIEF ACCOUNTANT

MISSIONS
Attached to the Directorate of Accounting and Finance, the Chief Accountant will be responsible for:

• Ensure financial security and continuous improvement of the financial process and compliance with procedures;
• Guarantee the sincerity and regularity of the company’s accounts in accordance with the provisions of the OHADA Uniform Act and the revised SYSCOHADA, as well as with the social and tax legislation in force in Cameroon;
• Ensure the production of monthly and annual financial statements;
• Provide supervision, supervision and animation of a team of accountants.

ACTIVITIES

Financial accounting

• Control, validate and update invoices for the purchase of commercial software;
• Supervise, control, validate, dump the batches of entries of accountants in the accounting software;
• Ensure the accounting of payroll entries or the computer transfer of payroll software to accounting;
• Control regional sub-logs and ensure the transmission of media to headquarters;
• Prepare the accounting documents, submit them to the hierarchy and then transmit them to the accountant for seizure;
• Ensure the correct accounting of fixed asset entries;
• Monitor the commissioning and decommissioning of fixed assets;
• Ensure the allocation of depreciation of monthly fixed assets;
• Coordinate inventories of fixed assets;
• Ensure the updating of the extra-accounting file for monitoring fixed assets;
• Calculate monthly provisioned expenses and year-end provisions to be included in the balance sheet
• Propose and enter after validation of regularization entries at headquarters and in agencies;
• Produce the monthly operating report;
• Ensure proper keeping of accounting documents and journals;
• Ensure the lettering of the accounts;
• Ensure the proper archiving of all accounting documents less than 10 years old;
• Ensure the implementation of audit and internal control recommendations;
• Ensure that interco accounts are updated after reconciliation;
• Supervise weekly cash orders and monitor the clearance of suspensions;
• Supervise bank reconciliations and monitor the clearance of suspensions;
• Take part in physical stock inventories and ensure regularizations;
• Draft accounting procedures;
• Ensure all other punctual tasks entrusted to him by his hierarchy.

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Accounts Auxiliary Accounts Receivable

• Ensure the tax update of customers;
• Ensure the proper configuration of tax rates on customer accounts;
• Monitor customer invoicing and payment operations;
• Ensure the entry of imputation documents for regularization of accounts receivable;  Ensure the conformity of invoices issued and bundles of associated documents;
• Ensure the production of the solvency status of the clients in the portfolio;
• Supervise customer balance confirmations;
• Manage customer reminders;
• Ensure the lettering of accounts receivable.

Suppliers

• Ensure the tax update of the suppliers in account;
• Ensure the entry of imputation documents and expense reports for the regularization of accounts payable;
• Ensure the production of the suppliers’ aged scale;
• Supervise vendor balance confirmations;
• Control and validate before payment of the statement of overdue invoices;
• Ensure the lettering of accounts payable.

Cost accounting

• Participate in the configuration of cost accounting adapted to the activity, useful analyses for managers or for operational;
• Ensure proper analytical breakdown of expenses and revenues;
• Determine the average cost of items sold as well as gross margin;
• Determine the result by profit center and cost center.

Balance sheet and result

• Develop and ensure the dissemination of the end-of-year inventory schedule;
• Record year-end inventory entries to prepare financial statements;
• Prepare the balance sheet and income statement and ensure at the beginning of the year the principle of intangibility;
• Reconcile the result of general accounting and cost accounting;
• Participate in the development of budgets.

Relations with the statutory auditors

• Define with them the audit schedule of the accounts;
• Justify the main restatements of closing accounts.

MANAGEMENT

• Organize and optimize the working time of his team (development or control of the schedules of his team, distribution of tasks, adaptation according to the affluence);
• Organize regular team meetings to provide information from management;
• Ensure the mobilization of teams according to the commercial strategy;
• Delegate effectively based on the experience of his/her staff;
• Assess the training needs of its staff;
• Define key performance indicators (KPIs) for employees and conduct periodic evaluations.

LEADERSHIP

• Build and maintain trust within your team;
• Demonstrate personal integrity that inspires team collaborators;
• Empower and inspire employees to achieve exceptional results;
• Have self-confidence and maintain a positive attitude towards difficult situations and encourage others;
• Invest time for the growth and development of employees;
• Be result-oriented and inspire respect and trust in others.

JOB REQUIREMENTS AND SKILLS REQUIRED PROFILE

• Academic level: Bacc + 4 or 5 in accounting;
• Professional experience: minimum 3 years in a similar position ideally in a company in the same sector of activity;
• Minimum age: 30 years.

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

• Accounting and financial analysis;
• Knowledge of local taxation;
• Cost calculation;
• Mastery of OHADA accounting assumptions and assertions and IFRS standards;
• Mastery of software: Office Suite, SAP, Sage Saari and other accounting software.

PERSONALITY TRAITS

• Organization and method;
• Rigor at work and cult of excellence;
• Discretion and integrity;
• Loyalty and confidentiality;
• Resistance to stress: compliance with deadlines imposed by management, ability to retrieve data in a timely manner;
• Ability to coordinate a team.

HOW TO APPLY?

Send CV and cover letter to: recrutement@africafooddistribution.com

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview

Application deadline: 23/10/2022

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