Senior Accountant - General Ledger & Stock (Oil & Gas)
Job Categories:
Accountancy
Date Posted:
2025-09-09 11:50:41
Employment Type
Full Time
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Location:
Lusaka
Salary:
Negotiable
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Description:
Job Purpose
The Senior Accountant - General Ledger & Stock, will be responsible for maintaining general ledger entries and reconciling financial statements. Be responsible for ensuring that ledger data is accurate and precise. Manage and reconcile all inventory-related financial transactions, ensuring accurate reporting of stock levels, movements, and valuation in compliance with internal controls and accounting standards. The Stock Accountant plays a critical role in inventory integrity, loss prevention, and financial reporting.
Summary of Key Responsibilities:
- Analyze general ledger accounts monthly and recommend appropriate action on old open items.
- Perform monthly and annual closing procedures, including journal entries, reconciliations, and accruals
- Manage the transitory and intercompany general ledger accounts to ensure transactions are complete and closed within the same period
- Support Monthly and Annual Close Processes
- Monitor and process fixed-asset additions and capitalization, retirement and disposal, adjustments, revaluations, transfers and maintenance expenses
- Prepare and submit clearing schedules to SSC monthly for various accounts.
- Post stock differences to align stock balances in SAP at the end of every month, after month-end stock reconciliation, by the Stock Controller.
- Assist various departments in accounting issues and queries
- Analyse and perform foreign currency exchanges
- Support Auditor in conducting internal and external audits
- Maintain accurate records of all stock transactions including receipts, transfers, issues, and adjustments.
- Reconcile physical inventory against system balances and investigate variances.
- Ensure that stock movements are correctly and promptly recorded in the SAP/accounting system.
- Assist in tax preparation and filing activities
- Support workflow users and circulate the workflow report weekly.
- Review the cockpit to ensure transactions are integrated with Smart Invoice and contact support to assist with errors.
- Support and coordinate periodic and ad hoc stock counts (cycle counts and full physical inventory)
- Monitor stock controls at warehouses, depots, or outlets to prevent pilferage, loss, and mismanagement.
- Work closely with operations and warehouse teams to enforce inventory best practices.
- Ensure adherence to company policies, internal controls, and relevant tax or audit requirements.
- Assist with internal and external audits relating to inventory.
- Support other finance functions as needed.
Required Skills and Competencies
- Excellent Communication Skills
- Attention to detail
- Excellent Problem-Solving Skills
- Good leadership skills
- High level of integrity
- Good analytical skills
Primary Areas of Accountability:
Qualifications and Experience
- Minimum of Bachelors degree in Accounting/Finance or Full CA Zambia, ACCA or CIMA or equivalent.
- Must have a minimum of 6 years of work experience in accounting/finance, of which 3 years must be in stock/inventory and general ledger management
- Must have an audit background or currently working for an audit firm
- Must be conversant with Spread sheets and SAP Accounting packages
- Must have good analytical, Excel and interpersonal communication skills to deal with issues of accounting, taxes and ZRA.
- Must be a member of ZICA
QUALIFIED & EXPERIENCED FEMALES ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY FOR THIS POSITION
If you meet the hiring requirements for the position, please email your CV in MS Word and Cover Letter clearly stating your salary expectations to: jobs@bemconsult.com & Cc bemconsult8@gmail.com
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