Senior GL accountant Specialist

Job Objective

Responsible for all general ledger related activities and fixed assets associated activities, including recording monthly depreciation cost entries and maintaining JCSA’s asset register. Liable for all accounts payable related activities, including recording invoices and payments to suppliers, contractors, or vendors to ensure timely and accurate payment of liabilities.

Primary Roles and Responsibilities

● Prepare and enter journal vouchers (manual, recurring, allocation journals etc.) to the general ledger.

● Perform general ledger reconciliation with sub ledgers on monthly and annual basis.

● Create general ledger reports for management related to journal vouchers summaries, account analysis, period closing, trial balance and others as required.

● Record and update all transactions related to fixed assets, such as additions, transfer, depreciation and capitalization, and Generate fixed asset schedules.

● Capture asset-specific information including; asset category, asset description, cost, depreciation rate, location, and owner information as required.

● Validate requests to acquire new fixed assets against the capital expenditure plan (CAPEX), and against the Fixed Asset Register to ensure the actual need of the fixed asset.

● Generate fixed assets depreciation report to calculate the monthly depreciation of all assets and test the calculation to ensure accuracy.

● Perform year end and period end fixed assets sub ledger closing activities as per the fixed assets policies and procedures.

● Handle all monthly accounts payable procedures including preparing journal vouchers and batches for entry of payment transactions related to accounts payable into the general ledger.

● Perform analysis of the accounts payable aging report and reimbursement of petty cash expenses.

● Review invoices from suppliers/contractors/vendors and perform invoice matching with delivery notes and purchase order.

● Resolve any discrepancies and handle questions related to the recording of payments transactions.

● Perform computation of accruals and ensure completeness and accuracy.

● Work hand in hand with the HR Operations team to process monthly payroll for all employees, as well as for new hires, terminations, status changes, deductions, direct deposits, time sheet data, retroactive adjustments and special pays as applicable.

● Reconcile payroll-related general ledger accounts and analyze payroll expenses for variances.

● Liaise with HR and respond to inquiries related to discrepancies from other directorates regarding payroll and HR accounting issues.