Confederation of African Football (CAF) Recruits Senior Accountant

Job Title: Senior Accountant

Job Description

Senior Accountant who can contribute to CAF’s overall success by handling the following duties:

• Support adequate Preparation of financial statements on tight due dates
• Ensure that appropriate implementation of Accounting Standards (IFRS)
• Manage the accounting functions, including the general ledger accounts, and their registration
• Post and process journal entries to ensure all business transactions are recorded
• Support handling A/P, A/R and their registration
• Update financial data in databases to ensure that the information will be accurate and immediately available when needed
• Support Budget Preparation in details
• Establish contact with all related departments and parties to gather data and information
• Structure a reliable, flexible, and easy to deal with Budget formats covering all concerned items
• Consolidate all Budget gathered financial information to issue CAF’s Budget
• Prepare and submit periodic Financial reports, including Budget reports (Actual Verses Budget)
• Analyse variances of actual verses budget with justifying reasons, (Calculate budget variances and report significant problems)
• Periodic update (monthly) on the status of the budget for each concerned department in relation to actual incurred amounts
• Authorize and approve all payments and incurred expenses with the set Budget
• Revisit initially issued Budget in the light of actual or new circumstances or events, and which may lead to issuance of an updated Budget
• Support the Finance Department in the preparation of monthly/quarterly/yearly closings,
• Reinforce financial data confidentiality and conduct database backups when necessary,
• Handle the requirements of external auditors
• Supervise, direct, and manage accountants in the Finance team
• Adhere to CAF’s set Rules and Regulations

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, and/or Finance
• Master’s Degree or CPA or Accounting equivalent preferred
• From 5 to 7 years of experience preferably in multinational or big local companies (Group companies with subsidiaries)
• Exposure, awareness, knowledge, and experience of financial statements preparations, IFS, and latest changes, financial reporting, general accounting knowledge, and accounting treatments and entries
• Preferably Audit experience in one of the big 4 Audit Firms
• Fluent in English and/or French

Method of Application

Interested and qualified candidates should:
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