Regional Accountant – Mogadishu, Somalia

Overview of position

• CTG is looking looking for a qualified Accountant to support our global finance team with Regional finance management & accounting.
• Experienced in areas such as payroll, invoicing, taxes, local audit & processing annual returns & management of purchase order systems.
• Customer facing to assist with debt collection & local banking & other financial relationships.

Role objectives

Client Purchase Orders (PO’s) – Call Off Orders (COO’s):

• Under all global long-term agreements with its clients CTG must raise a financial quotation & budget limitations for any new contracts (hereinafter called a “COO” & sometimes referred to as a ‘quote’).
• Generation of COO’s.
• Management of COOs & COO burner (ensuring budgets are not exceeded).
• With direct reporting to Finance Project & Payroll Manager (FP & PM).

Cashbook management & PO’s:

• Manage the cashbook.
• Post cashbook to Sage.
• Manage local Account Managers (AM’s) & other staff’s raising of PO’s, ensuring POs are raised where required prior to purchase.
• Ensure POs are recorded on Sage & raised for invoicing where applicable.
• Ensure the local team are trained on CTG PO system.
• Reconcile PO against COO & COO burner.
• With direct reporting to FP & PM.

Invoicing:

• Generate timely & accurate invoices for clients, either system generated or manually as required.
• Ensure all invoices are recorded correctly in Sage.
• Reconciliation of invoices against payroll & COO’s.
• Manage receipt of local supplier invoices, checking against PO’s, upload to Sage & issue client reimbursable invoice as required.
• With direct reporting to Credit Controller (CC).

Accounts receivable:

• Ensure timely payment of invoices by client.
• Support CC with chasing clients for unpaid invoices.
• Resolve any queries / issues with invoices to ensure swift payment.
• With direct reporting to CC.

Payroll:

• Oversee timesheets timely receipts with local AM’s.
• Ensure procedures & timelines are met.
• Prepare payroll, system generated or manually as required as per policy.
• Reconcile payroll with Sage, COOs, contracts of employment & local tax laws.
• With direct reporting to FP & PM.

Tax:

• Calculation of Personal Income Tax (PIT) & Social Security (SS) & any other applicable local salary withholding taxes.
• Responsible for timely payment of PIT, SS & other withholding taxes to local tax departments / authorities.
• Production & issuance of payslips.
• Complete annual tax returns, payment of corporate & other business taxes & other local filings.
• Manage any local audits for taxation & other jurisdictional requirements.
• Responsible for timely payment of all taxes to governing bodies.
• Posting of tax payments to Sage.
• Work with our legal team to ensure CTG adheres to local tax laws, responsible for keeping CTG in good standing & up to date with local tax laws.
• Represent CTG at local governing bodies (including ministry & tax departments).
• With direct reporting to Financial Controller (FC).

Banking:

• Manage local bank account(s) where applicable.

Management accounting:

• Manage local budgets & actuals variance analysis for Regional Director (RD).
• Prepare brief monthly report to summarise performance and highlight any areas of concern.
• Prepare savings schemes & analytical support on OPEX expenditure to enable local decision making.
• Provide visibility on financial business positioning to ensure effective regional management.
• Prepare local management accounts & work with local auditors as required.

Project reporting Functional financial reporting into the Financial Controller (FC) & Dubai HQ finance team.