Senior Accountant
SOS Children's Villages Ghana
Total years of experience :24 years, 2 Months
Assists in ensuring the maintenance of effective internal controls to assure safeguarding of assets and reliability of financial statements
Review of bank reconciliation statements
Assist in providing monthly management reports to the National Director and Program Directors of income and expenditure by project by each account code and providing other financial information, in a timely and accurate manner.
Supervision of secretary/cashiers in handling office funds to ensure imprest are safeguard and well disbursed
Review all receipts to ensure all incomings (school fees, donations and others) from projects are intact
Preparation of monthly salaries and ensuring prompt payment of statutory deductions
Assist in the preparation of monthly accounts by ensuring that all income and expenditure captured into the Microsoft Navision is accurate and conform to the SOS Accounting Policies
Assists in resolving all accounting and financial problems
Maintain banking relations and assist in planning and monitoring country cash flow requirements to ensure the smooth running of the facilities and programs.
Assists in preparation of annual budget and cash flow projections and its monitoring
Assists to request funds from International Office and confirming funds received
Assist auditors during annual audit of accounts and implementation of audit recommendations
Ensure effective stores management through supervision of storekeeper
Assists in organising training workshops for accounts staff
Preparation and update of asset register
Prepare cheques and bank registers.
Prepare monthly bank reconciliations
Preparation of bank and income registers
Handled the office store of stationeries and other materials
Make salaries and related payments promptly.
Input monthly payment, income vouchers into accounting software (Ms. Navision)
Check and file account documents (payment vouchers, income vouchers, receipts, tax returns, SSNIT returns) from SOS Projects.
Collection of school fees and other income
Handled bank correspondences
Preparation of bank and income registers
Preparation of income analysis and compilation of fee debtors lists
Handled the school store of stationeries, materials and uniforms
Handled office cash disbursement and kept adequate cash recordings
Ensured prompt payment of monthly salaries
MBA (Second Class)