Head: Account and Finance - Firmus Advisory

Job Title: Head, Accounts and Finance

Reports to: Managing Partner/Partner

Supervises: Account Team

Internal Relations: Colleagues

External Relations: Clients

Job Duties and Tasks:

• Ensures that financial accounting principles, practices, processes and procedures are followed and timely reporting.
• Accurate record-keeping and providing valuable financial information.
• Compute taxes owed and prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting and other tax requirements for all clients.
• Prepares asset, liability, and capital account entries, and maintains bookkeeping including tracking expenses and revenue, billing and invoicing, etc.
• Assist in providing external auditors with all required accounting information and manage GRA Audit issues.
• Responsible for Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) and Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) filings.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops and reviewing professional publications.
• Capturing data records into Quickbooks accounting software and generating reports
• Ability to prepare end-of-year financial statements from source documents.
• Ability to prepare budgets and conduct financial analysis.
• Ability to lead the team and provide proper supervision.
• Maintains customer confidence and protects operations by keeping financial information confidential
• Accomplish results by performing assigned tasks and targets.
• Other duties that may be assigned.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Required Qualification:

• Bsc. Accounting/ Master’s in Accounting/ ACCA or other equivalent Professional Certification in a relevant field with a minimum of 8 years experience in a similar position.

Required Skills and Knowledge: 

• Proven accounting experience
• Conversant with the usage of accounting software
• Accuracy and attention to details
• Aptitude for numbers and well-organized
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience in dealing with the GRA Audit Team is a must