Summary
Date Posted: Monday, August 09, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Company Summary
At ProWeb, we aim to provide professional software engineering services and online presence consultancy for businesses from various sectors in Africa. We are focused on promoting Africa’s software technology industry and contributing to driving the industry forward by offering a wide range of software development services. The ProWeb team at its core comprises of members with professional software engineering qualifications and experience. However, we embrace diversity and the core team is complemented with a support team of diverse educational backgrounds and experience. Our software development professionals and support staff take pride in providing a pleasant client experience and ensuring high quality professional service delivery. We are dedicated to seeing projects undertaken through to completion and maintaining a good working relationship with clients during and after project execution.

Position Description
A full time position at our HQ in Lusaka. Your CV/resume should clearly demonstrate relevant experience through appropriate descriptions of similar positions previously held and duties involved.

Job Role
You will join the ProWeb team as an accountant. You must be familiar and conversant with accounting rules and principles, Zambian tax rules and procedures, tax strategies, and financial reporting. Furthermore, you will also be required to prepare periodic taxes, balance sheets, profit and loss statements and other financial reports. Responsibilities also include analysing trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments and obligations incurred to predict future revenues and expenses. You will report the organization’s finances to management and offer suggestions about resource utilization, tax strategies and assumptions underlying budget forecasts.

Responsibilities
• Prepare asset, liability and capital account entries by compiling and analysing account information
• Record financial transactions by entering account information
• Recommend financial actions by analysing accounting options
• Summarize current financial status by collecting information; preparing balance sheet, profit and loss statement and other reports
• Substantiate financial transactions by auditing documents
• Maintain accounting controls by preparing and recommending policies and procedures to already existing policies and procedures
• Verify, allocate, post and reconcile transactions
• Produce error-free accounting reports and present their results
• Analyse, summarize and report financial status and information
• Review and recommend modifications to accounting systems and procedures
• Participate in cash flow forecasting process
• Prepare financial statements
• Direct and liaise with external audits to ensure compliance
• Monthly payroll preparation and disbursement
• Invoicing, managing and following up debtors
• Periodic preparation, presentation and review of company budget and cash flow statements
• Compliance with regulatory requirements

Qualifications and Skills
• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, other appropriate field of study or full ACCA qualification
• Minimum 4 years work experience in Accounting (Experience in Audit will be an added advantage)
• Knowledge of international accounting standards and tax requirements in the context of the service industry (specific experience in the IT / software engineering service industry will be an added advantage)
• Thorough knowledge of basic accounting procedures and principles
• Thorough knowledge of taxes including VAT, PAYE, Income Tax and WHT and associated processes
• Experience with preparing financial statements
• Experience with general ledger functions and the month-end/year-end close process
• Excellent accounting software user and administration skills (demonstrated experience with SAGE will be an added advantage)
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Aptitude for numbers and quantitative skills
• Good reporting and presentation Skills
• Deadline-Oriented with good time management skills
• Very good planning and organizational skills
• Very good problem analysis and problem-solving skills
• Ability to learn how to use internal business management tools

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 48

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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Job application procedure
All applications should be submitted using the application link. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
To apply for this job please visit proweb.freshteam.com.

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