Senior Manager, Accounting and Finance
Job Summary
Monitoring day to day accounting and finance and supervising account department team on daily transactions on correctness and completeness. Review and perform month end closing account to make sure all transactions are taken up in the account.
key Responsibilities
- Supporting Head, Accounting and Finance on supervise and monitor accounts receivable and accounts payable.
- Review and supervise credit control on agent outstanding.
- Review reinsurance premium.
- Review and supervise cashflow.
- Payment of VAT and other taxes.
- Liaison with related government departments.
- Closing of monthly account.
- Ensure all payment to customers, claimants, reinsurers have been done correctly and on time.
- Ensure cashier daily collection is taken up correctly and matched to the bank statement.
- Review agent outstanding report to make sure all collection has been offset properly in the agent accounts.
- Supervise accounting team to make sure routine work are going smoothly.
- Monitoring petty cash payments and ensure its daily report is correctly done.
- Review premium aging report with credit control team in order to make collection on time.
- Supervise credit control team for collection purposes.
- Liaison with agents for premium collection.
- Review reinsurance premium ceded to reinsurers to ensure it is taken up correctly in the accounts.
- Ensure all reinsurance premium has been paid correctly and on time.
- Review and prepare monthly statement of account and send to reinsurers.
- Review daily cashflow report to make sure that there is sufficient fund in the account.
- Supervise account executive on daily transaction flow in and flow out in the bank accounts.
- Review bank reconciliation to make sure all transaction has been taken up.
- Supervise account executive to ensure that VAT, commission tax, salary tax and other taxes has been calculated correctly.
- To make sure all the taxes have been paid to Tax Department on time.
- Liaison with Minister of Finance to make sure all related regulations have been updated and we have applied correctly.
- Liaison with Tax Department on VAT and taxes issues.
- Review all accounts to make sure all transactions have been taken up in the system correctly.
- Review premium income through monthly policy register.
- Review claim expenses to compare with monthly claim reserve movement report.
- Review commission expense, Reinsurance outward with monthly detail policy report.
- Run reconcile between general ledger and sub-ledger account.
- Run monthly short-term policy.
- Process the financial report for the months.
- Other tasks assigned by Manager
Leadership and Management
- Establish and uphold high standards of operations performance and ethics for the team in line with Forte Toko to ensure effectiveness, efficiency, and social responsibilities are met.
- Lead and motivate subordinates to advance employee engagement develop a high performing managerial team
- Lead and develop the teams to ensure their professional growth and sustainable company succession.
- Promote career development and create a conductive working environment for teamwork and growth.
- Lead by example the highest standards in terms of teamwork, customer and staff care, and management competence and ethics.
- Managing team KPIs and performance management.
Job Requirements
- Experience in Financial Management Function 3-5 Years
- Proven work experience similar roles specially around accounting and finance, account management, ICCA or CPA areas
- Strong understanding of investment strategies and risk management
- In-depth knowledge of corporate governance, finance, and insurance risk and compliance
- Analytical mindset and problem-solving orientation
- MA or BA in Law, business, finance, investment, or relevant field is preferred.
- Excellent communication skills (both Local and English Languages)
- Certified compliance professional is a plus.