Job Summary
The Operations Accountant is responsible for financial and administrative duties relating to revenue accounting in order to ensure effective, efficient and accurate sales order processing and invoice preparation, ultimately through the Oracle accounts receivable module. The incumbent is responsible for ensuring revenue and accounting receivable processes are conducted accurately and on time.
Responsibilities
Maintenance of Leases
• Is responsible for liaising with the Sales team to ensure all new business within the month is submitted to the Shared Service Center for abstraction and/ amendment.
• Is responsible for ensuring the double-blind process is followed per policy and works hand in hand with the Shared Service Center to take part in the process and
• to have all are schedules input in Oracle timely and accurately.
• The incumbent will maintain the Full Revenue Lease Abstraction responsibility.
• On a regular basis, performs a review of the tenant lease underlying information to ensure it is in line the various lease agreements and communicate necessary
• amendments to the Shared Service Center. Invoicing
• Prepare, maintain and submit accurate billing schedules to the Shared Service Center for invoice processing.
• Liaise with the Shared Service Center to ensure that invoices and credit notes to customers are raised accurately and on a timely basis.
• Work with cross functional teams including sales and technical support to ensure information required to bill customers is received timely.
• Work with the sales team to ensure invoices are clearly understood by customers and all disputed items are resolved.
• Liaising with sales and property teams on operational issues so as to ensure accuracy of Invoices.
Other duties
• Produce regular reports for internal management reporting and external reports required by customers.
• Support both internal and external audits as may be required.
• Provide support to Management on ad-hoc requests and reports.
• Maintain appropriate tax records where applicable in regard to Accounts Receivable.
• Perform Accounts Receivable balance sheet reconciliations.
• Other duties will be assigned as required.
Person Specification
Education, Training,
Skills & Experience
Qualifications
• Experience of ERP systems, Oracle knowledge preferred
• Strong analytical skills
• Creative and analytical thinker
• Self-motivated, able to work in a team and independently
• Ability to work in a high volume, fast paced environment
• Detail oriented and able to multitask, meet deadlines and adjust to changing priorities
• Excellent organizational skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely with all levels of the organization, including senior management
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Excellent follow up skills
• The incumbent must be flexible as there may be occasions that require working beyond the standard working week to ensure the positions expectations and responsibilities are met.
Education and Experience
• Degree in Accounting, or in a related field preferred
• Professional accounting qualification ACCA or CPA are preferred
• Minimum three years Accounts Receivable experience
Additional
We are a dynamic organization in a rapidly changing industry. Accordingly, the responsibilities associated with this job will change from time to time in accordance with the Company’s business needs. More specifically, the incumbent may be required to perform additional and/or different responsibilities from those set forth above.
The above declarations are not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job described, nor are they intended to be such a listing of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Rather, they are intended only to describe the general nature of the job.
Job application procedure
You can apply by submitting your cover letter and CV to exechire@truenorthafrica.com. with subject line by Operations Accountant – AR 7th December 2023
All application documents Must be in either PDF or MS. Word.
More Information
- Address Kampala, Uganda, East Africa