Key responsibilities

• Ensure completeness of the month-end and year-end close processes, ensuring adherence to deadlines and reporting requirements.
• Detailed review of the transactional activities recorded in the trial balance at a legal entity level and ensuring completeness, accuracy and the existence of balances.
• Adherence to the FC deadlines, ensure timely submission of the monthly commentary, checklists etc.
• Ensure the timely completion of the extended trial balance as per the deadlines of the statutory team and prepare the necessary deliverables for stat compliance.
• Compliance with local tax reporting requirements, including VAT, WHT, CIT, sales tax, payroll taxes etc., and ensure timely payments and submission of returns.
• Collaborate with the Firm tax team and Tax LoS where applicable to address any tax-related queries, tax assessments or other issues.
• Review of tax assessments/audits and obtain approval from Country Finance lead prior to submission.
• Conduct financial analysis to identify trends, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
• Provide insights and recommendations to the Country Finance Lead to assist in decision-making.
• Review of petty cash transactions, while ensuring accuracy and necessary reconciliation are maintained.
• Oversee the accuracy and integrity of the general ledger, accounting entries, timely billing and reconciliations of key control and suspense accounts.
• Monitor and manage cash flow, including cash position reports, cash movement between banks, and ensuring payment requirements are met.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including financial controls, statutory reporting, procurement, and treasury, to ensure effective coordination and alignment of financial activities.
• Collaborate with LoS teams, including LoS finance to understand Net Investment, revenue and accounting for any events that took place.
• Support internal and external audits, ensuring timely provision of required documentation and addressing audit findings.
• Coordinate and liaise with the external auditors on the localisation audits (where applicable), while highlighting any issues and areas of improvement to the ICV/Local Content team.
• Coordinate with the payroll teams to ensure completeness of transactions and compliance of statutory payments (pension, payroll tax etc.)
• Approving payment proposals while ensuring compliance and meeting payment deadlines.
• Coordination with other IFS functions on important compliance aspects, such as license renewals and certificates impacting the firm.
• Payroll reconciliation of salary tax to salary schedules to the tax authority.
• Local regulatory reporting requirements SOCPA and CMA ADGMA must be responded to in an accurate and timely basis.
• Including such other duties that may be assigned to you by your manager.