General Accountant – Addis Ababa – Ethiojobs
Accounting and Finance, Business and Administration
Ethiojobs
Who we are
Swiss Diagnostics Ethiopia (SDE) is legally established in Ethiopia as a share company with partnership arrangement of Swiss Diagnostics International (SDI) for Advanced Medical Laboratory services.
SDI is Switzerland based healthcare organization that provides worldwide diagnostics and treatment services. Being partner with SDI, SDE stablished a state-of-the-art lab facility in Addis Ababa with the scope of providing all range of comprehensive, specialized, and high caliber medical diagnostic services. It has a business ambition to reach the market of Ethiopia, Africa, and the Middle East.
SDE believes in creating an inclusive environment with a workforce and proud to be an equal opportunities employer and hence gives equal consideration to all qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, disability, age, and any other protected characteristics. SDE is also committed to promote and protect the welfare of all team members and customers.
The Role
Under the supervision from the Finance Manager, the incumbent follows up all financial programs like account payable, receivables and ensures compliance of budgetary requirements with closer attention of preparing, verifying, consolidating, and subsequently submitting the financial reports to the Finance Manager. Provides advice in implementing Financial Policies and Procedures, auditing, posting financial data and keeping pertinent records of books of accounts up to date
Key Responsibilities
- Analyses and forecast financial requirements for organization
- Ensures all financial transactions are efficiently working.
- Ensures proper codes and records of expenditure, income, and any other related transactions in the Books of Accounts.
- Checks all receipts, invoices and petty cash payments and post accordingly
- Ensures that monthly stock count is carried out by the stores, obtain the count result, check count against stock record balances and the reconciliation report; and takes or presents to the Finance Manager for timely and appropriate action on variances
- Clears outstanding advances and stock variances
- Performs account reconciliation process on monthly basis
- Manages all bank transactions are done properly and records are kept complete
- Prepare journal entries and regularly analyses different general ledger accounts
- Ensures receiving of payment requests, checks supporting documents and coding for completeness and proper authorization and writes cheques and corresponding payment vouchers
Number of positions: 1
Cost Centere: Finance
No of direct reports: None
Reporting to: Finance Manager
Budget Responsibilities (Y/N): N
Skills and Experience (essential/ desirable)
- BA with 4 years of experience (essential)
- Technical qualification in an appropriate field (essential)
- The qualification is either Business Management, Accounting, or any relevant field (essential)
- Relevant Certification (desirable)
- Relevant Trainings (desirable)
Personal Attributes
- Ability to work autonomously without the need for close supervision
- Passionate about improving business processes and ensuring Lab service delivery
- Commitment to SDE Behaviours and Values
- A passion for technology and how it can support business solutions
- Ability to interact with clients and stakeholders at all levels
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skill – both oral and written
- A strong teamwork ethic with a proven ability to work collaboratively
- Highly developed critical thinking, interpretative and analytical skills
- A willingness to learn, grow and stretch in new projects and different cultures
- Positive, determined, resilient, confident, and resourceful in the face of challenges
- Flexibility to travel internationally
