Accountant Projects

Responsible for CAPEX budget control as per approved budgets and projects financial reporting as per Accounting and CAPEX Governance procedures as well as in-charge of asset leases accounting and reporting in line with IFRS 16

• Ensure an up-to-date lease register is kept by updating the asset lease solution is accurately maintained and updated with additions, disposals and adjustments

• Post monthly lease related journals and reconciliation of various general ledger accounts as they pertain to Leases

• Coordinate with legal, technology and facilities to capture new lease contracts and modifications.

• Liaise with Accounts Payable to ensure lessor are timely paid

• Notify Legal of about to expire lease agreements so that they are timely renewed

• Prepare monthly reports relating to asset leases

• Monitor and control capital budget by ensuring demand requests qualify for capital spend and that funds are available for spend

• Analyse projects budgets and actuals to investigate variances

• Monitors the financial progress of capital projects and advise the projects team on accounting and implications of spend decisions

• Reconcile cost accounting module transit accounts to ensure they are manually cleared

• Ensure costs relating to completed projects are accurately rolled up and individual assets are created.

• Prepare CWIP Aging report on monthly basis to guide in technical working capital management

• Respond to CWIP and Project Accounting audit queries

• Liaise with BOOST resources to ensure system errors are timely resolved; system reports issues are fixed

• Reconciliation of GL WIP account balances against the WIP listing report and offer timely explanations and resolutions for any variance(s)

• Prepare Capex additions per Project from the Boost Actual additions report on a monthly basis

• Reconcile monthly Capitalisation against systems Asset additions report.

• Liaise with Project Managers to have all completed projects closed and related costs Capitalised

• Keep a record of documents to support WIP transactions that meets Audit requirements.

• Support the budgeting and forecasting for leases and PPE

• Ensure compliance with IFRS and internal accounting policies.

• Support month-end and year-end closing activities related to leases and CWIP.

• Assist in preparing financial statements and disclosures related to leases and CWIP.

• Respond to internal and external audit queries.

• Regular project reports to key stakeholders

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Statistics or related field.

• Professional certification (e.g., CPA, ACCA) is required or in progress.

• Minimum 3 years of experience in financial accounting, preferably with exposure to IFRS 16 and project accounting.

• Proficiency in ERP systems (e.g.Oracle, MRI) and Excel.

• Strong analytical and reconciliation skills.

• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) (preferred) 

• Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) (preferred)

• Attention to detail and accuracy

• Strong understanding of IFRS 16 and fixed asset lifecycle

• Ability to work cross-functionally with technical and finance teams

• Good communication and reporting skills

• Time management and ability to meet deadlines

• Ability to work under minimum supervision