Accountant

Our client in the Financial Sector is seeking to hire an Accountant for their POS office. Job Summary: To support financial decision-making information by collecting, analyzing, investigating, and reporting financial data.

Our client in the Financial Sector is seeking to hire an Accountant for their POS office.

Location: Port of Spain

Salary range: $17,000.00 - $18,600.00

Job Summary:

To support financial decision-making information by collecting, analyzing, investigating, and reporting financial data.

Job Requirements:

• Contribute positively to ensure that the client’s overall strategic business plan targets are met
• Ensure risk perspective, due diligence, due process, due regard, duty of care, return on time, quality assurance and compliance guides all actions
• Deliver WOW service to clients:
  • Projects a favorable and professional image at all times, maintaining loyalty and respect for the client.
  • Providing superior quality customer service to ensure that the client’s customers are satisfied and therefore recommend our service to their family members, friends and business partners/colleagues
• Provide strategic and advisory support to the Leadership team by:
  • Engaging in financial planning
  • Participating in the strategic planning process
  • Building and maintaining strategic networks
  • Assist in preparation of annual budgets
• Prepare monthly financial statements by:
  • Collecting data
  • Analyzing and investigating variances
  • Summarizing data and
  • Identifying trends
• Supervise all accounting processes by:
  • Managing Accounts Payables function
  • Managing Accounts Receivables function
  • Maintaining chart of accounts
  • Verify and post journal entries.
  • Reviewing general ledger accounts regularly
  • Reviewing and verifying all bank reconciliations
  • Closing accounts monthly
  • Monitoring expenditure compliance to approved budget.
• Analyze and forecast the client’s operating cashflow by:
  • Preparing monthly operating expenditure cashflow Monitoring operating bank accounts to ensure liquidity
  • Monitoring receivables
  • Monitor and implement all accounts payable cheque preparation, ach and wire transactions.
  • Administer all bank transactions and oversee data recording procedures monthly.
• Ensure the Company’s statutory obligations are honoured by:
  • Verifying corporation tax quarterly payments for accuracy
  • Verifying accuracy of National Insurance Contributions
  • Verifying accuracy of PAYE calculations
  • Ensuring payments are submitted within required deadlines
  • Assist in timely completion of annual tax returns by providing information and supporting documents as requested
• Support Company compliance with The Securities Industry Act by:
  • Preparing monthly reports
  • Preparing quarterly reports
  • Submission of Semi-Annual and Annual Reports
• Responds to financial queries by:
  • Gathering and analyzing, summarizing and interpreting data
• Assist with the timely completion of audits by:
  • Providing information and supporting documentation as requested during internal and external audits.
  • Design and prepare audit schedules for external audit.
• Enhance the capacity of your team by:
  • Guiding, coaching and motivating team members in all aspects of their performance as the contribute to the efficient operation of the division
  • Providing ongoing feedback to subordinates on their performance
  • Identifying performance gaps and devising strategies to close same
• Perform any related duties that may arise from time to time

Job Qualifications:

• ACCA Qualified
• 5 years’ progressive experience in the field of Accounting

Knowledge

• Sound knowledge of accounting procedures, principles and related legislation
• Thorough knowledge of financial system and their inter-relationships with departmental accounting operations
• Strong mathematical and numerical competences
• Knowledge of spread-sheets and accounting database software

Skills

• Excellent organizational skills
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Analytical thinking skills
• Decision-making skills

Abilities

• Ability to manage time and workload efficiently
• Ability to meet tight deadlines
• Initiative
• Ability to prepare a variety of complex and diverse financial statements and reports
• Ability to maintain sustained attention to detail in checking and recording financial
• transactions
• Ability to meticulously record transactions and be able to identify errors and trace them back to their source

Other

• Team player
• Strong sense of ethics