Summary
Date Posted: Friday, November 01, 2019 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
ACCA is the global body for professional accountants. ACCA’s mission is to provide quality professional opportunities to people of ability and application, to be a leader in the development of the global accountancy profession, to promote the highest ethical and governance standards and to work in the public interest. ACCA supports 131,500 members and 362,000 students throughout their careers, providing services through a network of 80 offices and centres.
The role requires collaboration with global groups within ACCA to ensure achieved outcomes are aligned with the work of a number of functions.
The Assistant Management Accountant (AMA) plays a key role within financial organisation of the National office within the market cluster (Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi) – The role will require working closely with the Market Heads in the cluster countries and the respective, Business Support and Compliance Managers (BSCM), as well as colleagues from other departments.
The role holder would primarily be responsible for the in-markets finance and human resources responsibilities within the cluster markets. In addition to this there will be a requirement to undertake HR tasks that require in region support. This would involve the maintenance of the all the relevant finance processes within the markets, maintain the internal control environment, maintaining the general ledger of the market, delivering a complete and accurate set of financial information, maintaining an efficient internal control environment, budgeting and forecasting in addition to serving as the in-house human resource support. .

  Job Responsibilities:
o Year-end close (audit journal entries)
o Preparing the monthly funds request and monitoring significant discrepancies to budget phasing
o External Audit Management – Lead in the Planning, supporting and ensure the completion of external audit assignment to ensure that audited financial statements are completed timely and all auditors requirements are received
o Internal Audit Management – Support the BSCM in the internal audit process for the relevant markets
o Ensuring that all audit action points within the management letters are completed within the time frame committed by management
o Reporting on the financial health of the markets on a periodic (monthly basis), this would include but not limited to the monthly financial report to the market head and business support service, variance reports commentaries
o Ensuring that the markets are tax compliant with all relevant tax laws. This includes but not limited to income tax, withholding tax, sales tax, local service tax etc.
o Manage the relationship with any outsource tax provider, in ensuring that contractual obligations are fulfilled
o Ensure Medical Insurance within the market is active and functional
o Support the ICP in ensuring that pensions remitted to various providers on time and in full
o Support any HR Audits being conducted within the market

Job Skills: Not Specified

Job Qualifications:
• A degree qualification in Accounting or business related course or similar
• A part qualified Accountant or affiliate of the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants, would be an added advantage
• Practical experience of an accounting package, ideally QuickBooks or Sage
• Sound experience with an international organization and good track record in the area of business support
• Excellent knowledge of computer applications
• Good command of spoken and written English
• Good knowledge of IT applications and financial management process
• Experience of month end close including reconciliations
• Experience of budgetary control and variance analysis
• Experience of HR administrative process advantageous..

  Job Education Requirements:
• A degree qualification in Accounting or business related course or similar

Job Experience Requirements:
• Experience of month end close including reconciliations

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