Job Description
Management Responsibilities:
- Provide leadership to finance and accounting areas of the organization.
- Provide useful financial insights to help make better decisions about formulating and executing strategy, and provide guidance and analysis to executive and operational management to improve results.
- Maintain system of accounts and keep books and records on all transactions and assets.
- Prepare and analyze accurate monthly financial and management reports, including income statement, balance sheet, budget and variance, projections and forecast, and cash flow.
- Maintain control of the following areas: general ledger, accounts payable, expense reports, billing, and payroll.
- Administer payroll, using various tools to deliver flawless payments.
- Supervise the Accounting and HR Associate and assign jobs relevant to accounts payable, accounts receivable, new-hire onboarding, benefits administration, and broker relationship management.
- Oversee maintenance of personnel files.
- Assist in the management of budget reporting, compliance, and reconciliation.
- Prepare a variety of ad hoc financial scenarios as requested.
Transactional Responsibilities:
- Ensure that all financial transactions are processed accurately, in a timely manner, and in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
- Develop, implement, and maintain processes and controls that are current best practices related to transaction processing.
- Manage, oversee, process (as appropriate), and act as backup for processing all of the following transactions: payroll, accounts payable, revenue and expense, fixed assets, cash, bank reconciliations, and allocations.
- Perform month-end closing procedures, including overhead allocations, account reconciliations, and updating schedules.
- Maintain an orderly accounting filing system.
Reporting Responsibilities:
- Assist in issuing timely, accurate, and complete financial statements for all levels, including Board of Directors, General Manager, and other management members.
- Assist in coordinating the preparation of the draft audited financial statements and all tax returns.
- Coordinate the preparation of financial information in the corporate annual report.
- Recommend and report upon benchmarks against which to measure organizational performance.
- Calculate and issue financial and operating metrics.
- Assist in production of cash flow reports, annual budget, and forecasts.
- Calculate variances from the budget and report significant issues to management.
- Provide for a system of management cost reports.
- Provide financial analyses and models as needed, in particular for capital investments, pricing decisions, and contract negotiations.
Compliance Responsibilities:
- Prepare and assist with developing audit schedules for the annual audit.
- Suggest improvements in processes to increase organizational effectiveness.
Job Requirements
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Proactive, hands-on manager who will own, in partnership with the Auditor, responsibility for the Finance Department.
- Strategic thinker who possesses solid business acumen and is able to organize and manage multiple priorities.
- Exceptional verbal and written communications skills and the ability to interact effectively with others, both internally and externally.
- Excellent time management skills, with the ability to perform multiple tasks and meet critical deadlines while maintaining accuracy and quality.
- Proven ability to make complex and time-sensitive decisions in the best interests of the organization.
Qualifications:
- ECC in accounting or finance. CPA is preferred but not required.
- ECC 4 years or Minimum of 8 years of finance and accounting experience, including finance, accounting, audit, and analysis (including gathering, evaluating, presenting, and reporting financial information to management and external stakeholders).
- Solid experience in coordinating audit activities and managing reporting, budget development and analysis, accounts payable and receivable, general ledger, payroll, and accounting for investments.
- Nonprofit experience, with experience with fund/grants accounting preferred.
- Proficiency with accounting software and excellent Excel skills.
How to Apply
Axon Neurology Specialty Center PLC Hospital which is located on Addis Ababa, CMC sunshine village.
Due to the large number of inquiries we receive, only candidates who have met the required experience & qualifications for this position will be contacted with two weeks of final date of the announcement. No phone calls please. However, since we are active on the market, we may wish to retain your CV in our database for other/future opportunities, unless you direct us otherwise. Thank you very much for your interest.
