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The Assistant Financial Analyst – Supply Chain & Logistics will manage the accounting function for assigned companies in accordance with international standard accounting practices to ensure accurate financial reporting. This role involves exercising control over capital expenditures, analyzing expenses, assisting in budget preparation, verifying sales commissions, and maintaining financial transparency through audits and reports.
Responsibilities
- Exercise proper control over capital expenditures and ensure accurate capitalization of assets.
- Analyze inter-company, head office expenses, and other overheads, ensuring proper controls in comparison to budgeted figures and validating explanations.
- Allocate common expenses to various cost centers as per predefined criteria and maintain control over common accounts.
- Assist in preparing budgets, business plans, and forecasts by liaising with involved departments, collecting and verifying data, and populating budgeting tools.
- Ensure proper accrual maintenance for services availed and compile this in balance sheet schedules.
- Verify sales staff commissions based on agreed criteria.
- Prepare sales reports or ad hoc reports for management to evaluate business performance.
- Liaise with operational units to identify Forex requirements and report these to the treasury department.
- Coordinate with banks for bank guarantees and letters of credit as requested by operations.
- Prepare cash flow statements for the current and forthcoming months to ensure there is no cash crunch or defaults in payments.
- Facilitate audits by internal and external auditors, examining audit reports with seniors, and implementing corrective actions as required.
- Prepare monthly management reports.
- Conduct periodic counts of fixed assets and trading inventory to ensure availability and fair valuation.
Qualifications
Education/Certification and Continued Education
- Commerce graduate with CA Inter/Semi qualified.
Years of Experience
- 5 to 7 years in an accounting function.
Knowledge and Skills
- Knowledge/experience in international accounting practice in a computerized environment.
- Proficient in PC usage with strong Excel skills and exposure to ERP solutions.
- Familiarity with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
- Strong analytical, numerical, and research skills.
- Excellent organizational and planning abilities, including the capacity to work under pressure.
