General Accountant
ETHPE Contracting LLC
Total years of experience :6 years, 6 Months
• Ensures integrity of accounting information by recording, verifying, consolidating and posting transactions
• Maintains general ledger and responsible for month-end and year-end closing procedures
• Reconciles financial discrepancies by collecting and analyzing account information
• Processes LPOs and communicates with suppliers to resolve payable accounts discrepancies if any
• Verifies and processes payroll
• Prepares and ensures that financial statements and records comply with laws, standards and regulations.
• Prepares ad hoc reports and recommendations to aid management in decision-making (e.g. capital budgeting, cost control and optimization of profit)
• Assists in ICV and year-end audit to ensure compliance
• Assists the Senior Accountant in analyzing data to determine the state of the companys financial health and recommends financial actions.
• Ensures that accounting policies and internal controls are strengthened and complied with
• Performs other tasks required.
• Maintains up-to-date billing system
• Generates and send out invoices
• Follow up on, collect and allocate payments
• Carry out billing, collection and reporting activities according to specific deadlines
• Performs account reconciliations
• Monitors customer account details for non-payments, delayed payments and other irregularities
• Research and resolve payment discrepancies
• Generates age analysis
• Reviews AR aging to ensure compliance
• Maintains accounts receivable customer files and records
• Follow established procedures for processing receipts, cash etc
• Process credit card payments
• Investigates and resolve customer queries
• Process adjustments
• Develops a recovery system and initiate collection efforts
• Communicate with customers via email
• Assists with month-end closing
• Collects data and prepare monthly metrics
• Prepared Trial Balance, Financial Statements and other financial reports.
• Verified, checked and examined validity of required documents of all financial transactions.
• Reviewed bank reconciliation statements.
• Assisted in implementation of existing accounting and auditing rules and regulations.
• Checked and reviewed journals and analysis of obligations, trial balances and posted transactions in books.
• Liaised with government auditors for month-end and year-end audit and complied necessary reports and schedules required.
• Filed tax returns (Expanded Withholding Tax, Value Added Tax and Income Tax Returns) and prepared governmental reports in compliance with strict standards.
• Performed other tasks required.
• Confirmed contracts based on attachments and payments of clients
• Checked and approved trade/non-trade purchases of materials, production, deliveries & invoices
• Supervised accounts receivables, payables & inventory clerks
• Checked and approved reports presented by accounting clerks.
• Trained new employees on accounting principles and company procedures.
• Assisted management with finalization of annual expense plans
• Filed tax returns and prepared governmental reports in compliance with strict standards.
• Performed Treasury, Personnel, Credit and Collection Functions.
• Maintained cash flow by monitoring bank balances and cash requirements.
• Checked, approved and posted journal vouchers.
• Prepared reports/schedules needed for preparation of Financial Statements and Income Tax Returns.
• Performed other tasks required.
• Assisted government officers to assess tax compliance of companies within the region.