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National Accountant

Your Role

The National Accountant – is responsible for the implementation of procedures and systems in order to streamline accounting, reporting & controlling processes, providing setup in line with statutory requirements and Kuehne+Nagel guidelines. The incumbent is also responsible for ensuring that Finance and administration employees are adequately trained to perform their functions and are up to date with all relevant financial guidelines and Kuehne+Nagel standard Procedures.

Your Responsibilities

• Implementing standard procedures and system in order to streamline and improve accounting processes.
• Ensuring that internal control system guidelines are fully implemented, documented and adhered to.
• Maintaining, proposing and implementing new interfaces between the internal financial system and 3rd parties to ensure a lean and improved accounting process.
• Ensuring internal approval framework/catalogue of competences (CoC) is up-to-date and adhered to.
• Assisting in the preparation of annual budgets and quarterly forecasts.
• Consolidation of monthly reports and providing financial information as required.
• Performance of month end procedures as defined and agreed with the National Finance Director for Tanzania branch (TZ53).
• Handling queries regarding profit & Loss (P+L) accounts, expenses allocation etc.
• Analysis of standard procedures with continuous improvement according to relevant guidelines and requirements.
• Coordinating of Rolling Forecast and target process.
• Overseeing all activities in accounts receivables and accounts payables for branch TZ53.
• End to end Cash flow management for the business.
• Performing month end tasks including the review and closure of Accounts Payables (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR) & Financial sub-ledger (FSL).
• Ensuring that the acknowledgement list is monitored on a regular basis and provide query resolution.
• General Ledger (GL) reconciliation for Tanzania.
• Monthly statistics preparation.
• Payroll processing every month (Sending Payroll input on or before 12th of every month or as per guidelines in case of future changes).
• Management reports; Gross profit (GP) analysis, Net Profit (NP2) analysis, Air Logistics and Sea Logistics reports.
• Supervision of Value Added Tax (VAT) filling and Withholding tax returns on time.
• Assisting in Tax returns, PAYE, NSSF, NHIF, VAT, WHT etc.
• Following up on Bank enquiries.
• Assisting in Audit and Financial statement Preparations.
• Co-coordinating Annual fixed asset tagging and Audit.
• Following up on Tanzania revenue enquiries and Compliance issues.
• Assisting on filling of company returns (Annual returns and Tax returns).
• Liase with external Auditor and Banks.
• Support on Human Resource & Administration tasks.
• Any other functions as given by the National Finance Director.

Your Skills And Experiences

• Minimum Bachelors / First University Degree in Business Related course from a reputable Academic Institution
• Professional Certification course in Accounts
• Preferred 2-5 years’ experience in freight forwarding environment
• Excellent communication skills & team player
• Knowledge of financial management methodology
• Advanced computer skills (proficient in Excel)
• Exceptional analytical skill and attention to details
• Ability to work towards and meet deadlines
• Travel Domestically & within the cluster whenever required
• Valid driving License
• Fluent in English and Kiswahili