Job Opportunity: Head, General Accounts Division position available at Tamrin International Trading PLC in Addis Ababa. Accounting and Finance jobs in Ethiopia are in high demand. Apply now through GeezJobs - Ethiopia's leading job portal.

About Tamrin International Trading PLC

Tamrin is a dynamic and forward-thinking company operating across key sectors, including Automotive, Trading, Agriculture, Transportation, and Logistics. We're driven by a powerful mission: to achieve sustainable growth and maximize long-term value for all our stakeholders. This means we're not just focused on profit; we're committed to building a better future for our employees, customers, and the communities we serve.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Under the guidance sand supervision  of the Corporate Finance Department Manager, the Head, General Accounts Division , is responsible for the planning, organizing, coordinating, directing and controlling the overall accounting and financial management activities of the company; keeping proper books of accounting and records to the best satisfaction of the generally accepted accounting principles, IFRS and other internal as well as external regulatory requirements; analysis of financial transactions, preparation of documents, maintenance of proper financial records as well as the collection, compilation and posting of accounting data; ensuring the accuracy and timely preparation of financial reports.

Detailed Duties and Responsibilities 

1. Plans, organizes, coordinates, directs and controls the overall accounting and financial management activities of the company;

2. Involves in the development, revision of the company’s financial, and accounting management chart of accounts, policy, procedure and working  system and implements when approved;

3. Allocates tasks among accountants based on their level and job descriptions;

4. Assigns codes accounts and financial records;

5. Inspects & tests books of accounts for accuracy and performs other advanced general accounting tasks;

6. Reviews all entries to asset, liability, capital, revenue and expense accounts for accuracy and completeness and recommends appropriate correcting entries as needed;

7. Guides for the compilation of the latest and confirmed balances of the general ledger accounts to produce interim or regular financial reports or to prepares schedule of accounts upon request by management or to complete the accounting cycle;

8. Monitors the consolidation of account balances of the general ledger to produce interim and end-of-period financial reports for both internal and external use;

9. Ensures that cash is utilized properly and in accordance with contracts entered, and company procedures, rules, regulations and general guidelines, at all levels of the company;

10. Prepares schedule of receivable, payable and other accounts for management consideration or to complete the accounting cycle;

11. Monitors the working capital management of the company through liquidity measures to ensure its ability of meeting the company’s short and long term financial obligations;

12. Verifies references and cross-references of postings and source documents;

13. Verifies that bank statements are reconciled with the company’s book of accounts;

14. Verifies that expenditures are justified, properly made and signed and charged to correct accounts; 

15. Follows up periodic inventory taking and control practices, ascertains registration of cost of operation  and controls   stock movement records;

16. Checks the agreement of the balances of subsidiary ledgers and that of control accounts in the general ledger and tests the equality of debit and credit totals (trial balance) of the general ledger account balances;

17. Ensures the consistency of physical count of inventories with their balances in the book of accounts;

18. Checks the correctness of petty cash payment vouchers and account coding;

19. Manages employees’ salaries, payroll deductions, income tax and pension contribution, checks and verifies the accuracy of payroll that pension, income tax and all other deductibles are computed; ensures the timely payment of such dues to concerned government authority;

20. Follows up the timely lodging and settlement of insurance claims;

21. Follows up  the orderly clearance of payables and receivables;

22. Follows up the timely settlements of all payables including government payments and other payables; 

23. Examines the delivery order memorandum register to ensure that all deliveries are invoiced;

24. Verifies that bank statements are reconciled with accounting records;

25. Maintains and updates purchase register books for both imports and local purchases by inserting all the necessary data;

26. Prepares monthly, quarterly and annual statements needed to show the financial position, operation results, changes in cash balance and retained earnings of the company;

27. Tests the financial feasibility of projects, evaluates alternative sources of financing and investment options to recommend the best action for management;

28. Analyzes records of present and past operations, trends and costs, estimated and realized revenues, administrative commitments and obligations incurred to project future revenues and expenses;

29. Conducts liquidity ratio, asset management ratio, leverage ratio and profitability ratio analyses on financial statements to evaluate the financial performance of the company against industry standards and other benchmarks; 

30. Entertains audit review feedbacks given on the books of accounts and accounting practices of the company;

31. Monitors,  controls and evaluates  the day to day activities of staff under his supervision and ensures  that they are discharging the assigned duties and responsibilities in a proper manner;

32. Supervises and evaluates the performance of subordinates;

33. Prepares weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual financial and performance report for internal management decision and to concerned government agency as deemed necessary;

34. Submits regular and extraordinary performance reports relating to financial management activities of the company;

35. Supervises and evaluates the performance of subordinates;

36. Performs other job related duties as required by the immediate supervisor.

From recognized university/college second degree in Finance, training in accounting software application and IFRS and 4 years related work experience

Or

From recognized university/college first degree in Accounting & Finance/ Accounting, training in accounting software application and IFRS and 6 years related work experience

How To Apply

Interested applicants and qualified candidates should submit their application cover letter with original documents (Educational Credentials & Work Experience), CV and non-returnable copies of within 6 working days from the time of this vacancy announcement. 

Place of application : - on the way from ‘Megenagna’ to imperial Hotel In front of Anbessa Garage next to (DHL) OR  through ethiojobs 

For More information:   Tel +251-114-431130, +251-114-431444 PO. Box 121225 Addis Ababa.