Accountant Manager

Position Overview

The Accounting Manager will provide accounting and administrative supervision to the finance function, ensuring effective, efficient, and high-quality accounting and budgeting services, timely reporting, and compliance with applicable timelines and regulations.

Location

Kigali, Rwanda

Level

Professional

Department

Finance

Reports To

Director of Finance

Key Responsibilities

Coordination of Journal Entries Processes

• Coordinate bookkeeping processes and ensure timeliness and accuracy of journal entries
• Coordinate and lead the team toward compliance with laws, regulations, and accounting standards
• Ensure compliance with tax administration requirements

Foster Accuracy of Financial Data

• Implement preventive and detective measures to foster accuracy of financial data
• Ensure daily and weekly reconciliations of general ledger accounts
• Ensure existence of relevant roll forward reports (fixed assets, lease, borrowings, loans) to confirm accuracy of financial data

Preparation of Financial Reports for Various Stakeholders

• Prepare monthly and quarterly financial reports for internal and external use
• Ensure financial reports are true and fair in accordance with accounting standards and other applicable laws and regulations
• Prepare periodic regulatory reports (daily, monthly, quarterly)
• Prepare narrative reports explaining key variances for each report
• Ensure value for money for all transactions

Audit and Clearance Processes

• Maintain orderly transactions to facilitate auditing exercises by internal and external auditors, inspectors, and tax administrators
• Attend in a timely manner to queries from auditing and inspection processes
• Ensure timely closure of findings from auditing and inspection processes
• Assist and guide clearance of all queries raised by external and internal auditors

Internal Controls and Compliance

• Develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls