Role Purpose
This role is responsible for supporting the end-to-end accounting
process in the country, including month and year end close, and ensures
consistent, accurate and robust financial accounting processes in line
with accounting practices and corporate policies. This is a supporting
role in the Financial Controlling and Accounting process which is a key
function in the new organisational structure emerging from the Financial
Transparency recommendations.
Main Opportunities and Challenges
- Support the team with end-to-end financial activities with tight deadlines
- Ensure consistent and robust accounting processes is followed in line with corporate policies
Main Accountabilities
- Complete all financial tasks required for the financial
month-end pre-closing steps and provide support as required for the
financial month-end closing steps - Complete all financial tasks
required for the financial year-end pre-closing steps and provide
support as required for the financial year-end closing steps - Maintain financial records as per corporate policy and internal audit
- Provide
support as required on accounting transactions and adjustments
(accruals, deferrals and provisions), including Intercompany accounting - Provide
support as required with manual journals and off-system payments
requests ensuring accuracy and compliance with relevant policies - Assist with reconciliation of all relevant accounts and ensure that this is completed to corporate standards
- Assist Senior Accountant with preparation of local Tax submissions and other statutory returns
- Complete Travel & Expenses audits as per policy addressing issues in a promptly manner
- Assist Senior Accountant / Financial Controller with provision of information to internal / external auditors
- Assist in the implementation of audit recommendations
- Responsible for ensuring integrity of cash collection process
- Responsible for ensuring integrity of customers refund process
- Support the income reconciliation process by extracting relevant reports
- Ensure compliance with treasury policy
- Prepare monthly local staff salaries calculation, report month to month reconciliation
- Check overtime and TOIL claims in line with TACOS (local terms and conditions) and policy
- Calculate Social Insurance, where applicable, and prepare payments
- Control staff loans and advances on SAP and report offline month to month reconciliation
- Calculate
monthly terminal gratuity (TG) provision and quarterly record on SAP;
keep TG GLs up to date on SAP and matching offline sheets - Ensure proper coding of the staff salaries to the correct WBS
- Prepare
final payments for leaving staff and ensure no unsettled commitments or
eligibilities between the employee and the council or between the
council and the bank - Provide Senior Accountant with the forecasted cash outflow related to payroll payments
- Control Reimbursement of Operational Entitlements for UKA staff
- Reconcile SAP payroll charges with HR on a monthly basis
Regional And Functional Team Working
- Contribute to ensuring the policies, procedures and systems are delivered with integrity
- Work closely and effectively as part of the regional and global finance teams
- Actively support equality and diversity and work to the British Councils EDI policy at all times
About You (essential Requirements For The Role)
- 3 years of accounting experience.
- Experience working with SAP
- Bachelor of commerce
- Accounting Knowledge
- Experience in Microsoft applications
Desirable Requirements
- Fully or partially qualified CMA, ACCA
Further Information
- Role: Accountant 1(30749)
- Number of positions :1
- Pay Band: H/4
- Location: Egypt
- Contract type: 1 year Fixed term local contract
- Closing date and time: 14th November 2022 (23.59 Gulf Standard Time)
Other requirements: This role is only open to candidates who have right to work and are based in Egypt.
Please note that all applications should be submitted only in English.
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