Senior Accountant

Afriflower PLC is engaged in the flower production and export business with 74 hectares of land at Holeta.

We would like to hire a Senior Accountant who is punctual, good communicator (via telephone, email, face to face) and a team player for our head office located in Addis Ababa.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Verify, allocate, post and reconcile accounts payable and receivable
• Responsible for reconciling account balances and bank statements, maintaining general ledger
• Provide technical support and advice to the Administration and Finance Manager
• Issuing invoice to the customers based of the delivery note and collecting the money and timely deposit to the bank
• Manage Junior Accountants
• Participate in financial forecast process
• Prepare deposition and other staff indemnity account on time base
• Handle and manage month/quarterly tax filing and proper settlements in due time (Declaring on the ERCA system)
• Support month-end and year-end closing process
• Ensures that books of accounts are maintained, check, receipts and other financial documents are kept properly and that they are safeguarded against misuse;
• Preparing Payroll sheet
• Follows up that taxes, insurance payments and collection are handled on time;
• Ensures that all cash collected is deposited daily in the bank;
• Ensures that required financial information is made available to internal and external auditors;

Qualifications and experience required

• 7 years for a B.A. Degree, 9 years for a diploma in Accounting and Finance
• Excellent knowledge of Peachtree, MS-Excel, and MS-Word.
• Experience on the farming and exporting industry is preferable.