Accountant at Pernod Ricard Programme 2023

Key Responsibilities

Financial Reporting

• Reviewing monthly supplier and customer reconciliation.
• Reviewing ERP master data forms for customers for accuracy.
• Ensuring monthly bank statement review, approval and filing.
• Performing monthly intercompany reconciliation.

Best – Practice Accounting procedures followed.

• Reviewing and approving Journal entries before posting to General Ledger.
• Preparing and reviewing monthly accruals are prepared and reviewed prior to posting in ERP
• Executing Month end and period-end tasks and activities (Balance Revaluation, FX adjustments in ERP, Period end close in ERP, Monthly and periodic physical count and verification (stocks and fixed assets)
• Ensuring all fixed assets are properly recorded and maintained in ERP
• Processing International Financial Reporting Standards adjustments to fixed assets bi-annually
• Ensuring all fixed assets acquisitions are properly authorized by the responsible office.
• Preparing annual Capex budget in consultation with Managing Director and the responsible office.
• Ensuring that cash flow forecasts are prepared monthly and weekly CICO
• Ensuring the Group’s “cash toolkit” is being competently managed and suggested improvements given to Financial Controller
• Analyzing insurance needs to cover assets & events leading to financial loss
• Advising insurers advised of changes that may affect risk
• Ensuring all bank and petty cash accounts are reconciled monthly to ensure accuracy
• Ensuring all payroll inter-company charges are processed in ERP
• Working in conjunction with business analysts during budget and LEs
• Submitting budget data into Prisma

Tax Management and Reporting

• Preparing monthly reporting for Tax submissions.
• Ensuring data submission of monthly reporting for Pernod Ricard Eastern Africa to relevant market tax portals and sites.
• Overseeing reconciliation of PRK accounts with KRA records and accounts.
• Ensuring that all tax obligations are met; Tax (Excise, VAT, CIT), Payroll, payments to group companies, and foreign exchange contract commitments
• Ensuring that all intercompany payment obligations are met including interest payments, capital repayments, and BO invoices.
• Assisting in preparing all tax returns for PRK in collaboration with the Financial Controller, auditors, and tax advisors
• Ensuring that half-yearly and annual tax calculations prepared are submitted timeously
• Ensuring that statutory returns are submitted timeously and reconciled periodically.

Internal Control Responsibilities.

• Adhering to all the internal control procedures of Pernod Ricard Eastern Africa
• Ensuring Internal controls are updated annually in compliance with Group requirements
• Ensuring the integrity of the master database for suppliers and customers
• Assisting the Financial Controller in risk mapping every two years
• Giving recommendations to Financial Controller on the improvement of processes and controls.

Stakeholders’ Relations

• Developing a collaborative relationship with internal stakeholders through cultivating an excellent transparent working relationship across PRG departments and with SSA senior finance team
• Collaborating with external stakeholders by ensuring ongoing communication with auditors, external advisors, company secretaries, banks, and other service providers as required.
• Liaising with government departments on statutory compliance issues as required

Requirements

• • Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, or another relevant field
  • Four (4) years experience in Finance. Audit experience is an added advantage.
  • Experience in the FMCG industry in Commercial Finance or Business Planning Analysis is preferred
  • CPA or ACCA Qualification required
  • Experience in working with multiple functions within an organization (e.g. Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain)
  • Advanced Microsoft Excel experience
  • Ability to work autonomously with little supervision
  • Ability to work within a team
  • Verbal and written communication skills
  • Decisive and accurate
  • Ability to work under pressure and adept in prioritization

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