French Speaking Accountant

Job description / Role

Responsible for booking of the entries in the ERP system Accounting Software for the assigned field. Ensuring ledgers are reconciled to General Ledger for the assigned entities.

Principal Accountabilities:

Financial Reporting:
- Preparation of monthly journal entries in a timely and accurate manner
- Perform complex monthly reconciliations of general ledger accounts
- Review of balance sheet transactions to ensure accuracy, sufficient documentation and ensure all balances are properly supported, and record correct entries as required
- Bank reconciliation
- Prepare monthly provision of accrued expenses

Accounts payable / Purchasing:
- Make online payments
- Complete payments and control expenses by receiving, processing, verifying and reconciling invoices/payslips
- Process invoices including data entry, match invoices and validate approvals
- Resolve AP invoice problems
- Schedule tasks to ensure compliance to deadline
- Ensure subsidiary ledgers on accounts payable, agree to the general ledger
- Respond to inquiries from vendors and operations
- Audit expenses reports
- Vendor set up and maintenance
- Verify all requests as per company credit facilities and policies
- Process payments
- Booking of taxes (VAT, WHT, Corporate tax..)
- Calculating, preparing and submitting accounts and tax returns in a timely manner
- Prepare and update tax provision schedules
- Maintains the Company's tax calendar to ensure that all filing and payment requirements are met in a timely manner

Accounts receivable / Invoicing / Sales:
- Maintain an updated list of Outstanding Receivable and follow up past due invoices through calls, emails or personal visits
- Make a monthly reconciliation of AR and generate a report for upper management
- Accomplish accounting and organization by completing related results as needed

Requirements

- Bachelor in Accounting or in Business Administration.
- Minimum 2 years experience in Finance / Accounting position in similar organizations.

Skills Required :
- French speaking is mandatory
- Previous experience with a french ledger
- Attention to detail, thoroughness, organization, analytic and communication skills
- Honesty, reliability
- PC proficiency, data entry skills
- Stress and time management

About the Company

Oil and Gas exploration is evolving on a global scale, putting the need for specialist talent at the top of the agenda. Its a vast, political, complex, heavily candidate-lead market with the emphasis on dynamic, multiple project opportunities, rather than the pre-recession security of long-term positions.

For businesses, the need to innovate in emerging, competitive markets has put the pressure on and with major oil companies selling off their assets to smaller independent operators, the games gained plenty of new players too.