Are you passionate about accounting and enjoy working with clients directly?
We are a fun group of passionate individualss who are who focused on helping entrepreneurs succeed! We help hundreds of the top small businesses in Africa with their accounting and tax so that they can stay focused on building their companies. And our clients love working with us because we are anything but a traditionalaccounting firm.
If you’re a persuasive communicatorwith a passion for Accounting, continuous improvement, and teamwork, we’d love to meet you!
What we expect from you
- Responsible for advanced level financial record keeping of a difficult, complex nature.
- Work involves full responsibility for maintaining and operating a set of general books of account or set of accounts, including subsidiary ledgers, using automated systems.
- Supervision will be exercised over the work of a small number of junior bookkeepersBuild relationships with entrepreneurs and assist clients with daily business decisions
- Own the end to end client experience for a diverse portfolio of clients
- Manage client communications via phone, email, chat, and more.
- Advocate for our client’s needs; you’re the one with a finger on the pulse.
- Answer or direct accounting-related questions to support our clients through all the challenges they face as they grow their businesses.
- Work closely within and across teams to provide seamless best-in-class support to our clients.
What you will be doing day to day
- Maintains and operates a complete and systematic set of general books, including subsidiary ledgers, in accordance with a prescribed system of accounts;
- Classifies a wide variety of receipts and expenditures and distributes items according to a prescribed code;
- Compiles and analyze a variety of complex accounting and statistical information to prepare financial and statistical reports;
- Review and and implement financial policies to guarantee operational efficiency for clients
- Assist in budget preparation for clients
- Assist with audit of clients
- Prepare financial statements including Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet and Cashflows for clients
- Review financial statements prepared by junior bookkeepers and send to clients
- Handle tax complications of clients
- Maintain communications with tax authorities and pension regulators on clients related issues
- Perform periodic financial analysis to detect and resolve problems.
Desired Skills and Experience
- Strong communication skills (written and verbal).
- A passion for working with clients-- helping them succeed, and building strong and long-lasting relationships with them.
- Working knowledge of cloud-based accounting software (Quickbooks, Xero, Zohobooks).
- Familiarity with modern work tools like Atlassia, Click-up, Slack, Hubdoc, Google Drive etc.
- Great listening skills, honed-in to figure out how you can best support clients while also collecting important feedback to help guide the executive team
- Meticulous attention to detail and ability to stay extremely organized in a crazy-fast moving environment
- Strong research skills to figure out answers to questions you don’t already know.
- Phenomenal teamwork skills! We are a team through-and-through, and our success is entirely dependent on working together
- Team player and good leadership skills
- Ability to work with entrepreneurs from different countries and time-zones
Requirements
- Minimum of 4 years of accounting and/or bookkeeping experience.
- Bachelor's degree preferred.
- Partly qualified accountant – ACCA, ICA, CPA
- Working knowledge of accounting theory and principles.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong client-facing or communication skills required.
Benefits
- Life Insurance (Basic).
- Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays).
- Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity).
- Work From Home.