Accounting Manager
Job Summary
The Accounting Manager oversees accounting operations, including financial reports, record maintenance, and internal controls to ensure compliance with GAAP. Key responsibilities include managing funds, budgets, cost accounting, financial analysis, risk management, and overall accounting operations. The ideal candidate must be technology savvy, detail-oriented, and possess strong analytical and communication skills.
Responsibilities
- Oversee overall accounting operations and daily processes
- Manage cash flow, funds, and annual budgets
- Conduct financial analysis and cost accounting
- Perform risk management and internal audits
Required Skills
- Proficient in store operations software
- Strong oral and written communication
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Detail-oriented and logical thinking
Job Details
Funds Management
- Forecasts cash flow positions and capital structure.
- Ensures that sufficient funds are available to meet ongoing operational and capital investment requirements.
Budgeting
- Manages the preparation of the company's annual budget for review and approval.
Financial Analysis
- Analyzes the company’s financial status, provides recommendations to reduce cost control to improve activities of expenses.
- Manages the capital budgeting process, based on constraint analysis and discounted cash flow analysis
Cost Accounting
- Ensures an accurate recording of expenditure in the appropriate journals and ledgers.
- Reviews and approves payroll budget and distribution.
Risk Management
- Conducts risk assessment, evaluates and recommends processes for improvement.
- Audits different department expenses and processes involving flow of money, advances, and returns.
- Implements the health and safety measures, ensures compliance to government agencies and creates business continuity plans to limit risks.
Overall Accounting Operations & Management
- Manages and oversees the daily operations of the accounting department, including but not limited:
- Month and end-year process
- Accounts payables/receivables
- Cash receipts
- General ledger
- Payroll and utilities
- Treasury, budgeting
- Cash forecasting
- Revenue and expenditure variance analysis
- Capital assets reconciliations
- Trust account statement reconciliations, check runs
- Fixed asset activity
Qualifications:
- Technology savvy, must be proficient in using store operations software
- Above average oral and written communication skills
- Results-oriented, must be analytical and with good problem-solving skills
- Thinks logically and keen on details
- Must be a team-player and with good interpersonal skills