Senior AP Accountant

Job description / Role

Job Description

- Maintain financial records for petty cash and cash-on-hand.
- Review invoices and check payment requests.
- Daily accounting entry on the system and recording invoices.
- Reconcile GL entries in terms of prepayments, amortizations, advances, accrued expenses.
- Prepare journal entries for the local and foreign petty cash and cash-on-hand transactions.
- Reconciliation of payments and prepare analysis of petty cash.
- Review temporary and permanent cash in advance requests.
- Daily audit for employee expense claims.
- Assist in month-end/year-end closing and produce monthly reports.
- Monthly follow-up on petty cash and permanent / temp loans settlements.
- Perform monthly review of vendor statements.
- Review all lines of business/departments' payment requests to ensure that they are allowable and authorized.
- Review and receive from all lines of business/departments' cash, cheques, and transfers' requests and process the payment voucher.
- Review and reconcile all advances given to lines of business/departments or employees.
- Analyze all expenses per line of business and compare with the budget report.
- Prepare and reconcile monthly prepaid expense statements.
- Send periodic confirmation to employees to ensure that the company's payables balance matches with the employees' financial custody.

Personal Skills

- Excellent knowledge of MS Office.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Very good analytical and decision-making skills.
- Very good command of English.

Technical Skills

- Bachelor's degree in accounting.
- 5-8 years of relevant experience.
- Good knowledge of IFRS.
- Oracle experience.

Education

- B.Sc. in Accounting

About the Company

Giza Systems, a leading systems integrator in the MEA region, designs and deploys industry-specific technology solutions for asset-intensive industries such as the telecoms, utilities, oil and gas, hospitality and real estate among other market sectors. We help our clients streamline their operations and businesses through our portfolio of solutions, managed services, and consultancy practice. Our team of 1000 professionals are spread throughout the region with anchor offices in Cairo, Riyadh, Dubai, Doha, Nairobi, Dar-es-Salaam, Abuja, Kampala and New Jersey, allowing us to service an ever-increasing client base in over 40 countries.