Under direction, performs a variety of professional level accounting duties involved in preparing, maintaining, analyzing, verifying, and reconciling complex financial transactions, statements, records, and reports; maintains the accuracy of the City’s ledgers and subsidiary financial systems; assists in the preparation of assigned budgets, annual audit, and year end closing; and provides highly responsible staff assistance to assigned management staff.
Develop a sales strategy to achieve organizational sales goals and revenues. • Set individual sales targets with sales team. • Delegate responsibility for customer accounts to sales personnel. 2 • Co-ordinate sales action plans for individual salespeople. • Ensure sales team have the necessary resources to perform properly. • Monitor the achievement of sales objectives by the sales team. • Evaluate performance of sales staff. • Provide feedback, support and coaching to the sales team. • Plan and direct sales team training. • Assist with the development of sales presentations and proposals. • Investigate lost sales and customer accounts. • Forecast annual, quarterly and monthly sales revenue. • Generate timely sales reports. • Develop pricing schedules and rates.
Assist with preparation of the budget. • Implement financial policies and procedures. • Reconcile the general ledger. • Prepare and reconcile general bank statements. • Establish and maintain supplier accounts. • Ensure data is entered into the system. • Ensure transactions are properly recorded and entered into the computerized accounting system Prepare income statements. • Prepare balance sheets. • Assist with the annual audit. • Maintain financial files and records. • Issue, code and authorize purchase orders. • Reconcile the accounts payable. • Reconcile the accounts receivable. • Reconcile weekly deposits. • Manage distribution of utilities bills and collections of accounts. • Maintain the leave management system. • Supervise completion of the payroll. • Review payroll reports. • Respond to inquiries. • Manage the repair and maintenance of computer and office equipment. • Issue permits and licenses. • Supervise customer services and respond to customer inquiries. • Assist with preparation and advertising of contract documents. • Administer contracts.
Supervise and coordinate activities of staff. • Interview job applicants. • Conduct orientation programmers for new employees. • Administer salaries and determine leave entitlements. • Be involved in staff training and development, preparation of job descriptions, staff assessments and promotions. • Prepare annual estimates of expenditure, maintain budgetary and inventory controls and make recommendations to management. • Maintain management information systems (manual or computerized). • Locate suitable business premises and negotiate reasonable leasing agreements. • Provide and maintain business premises and other facilities, including plant machinery and equipment. • Review and answer correspondence. • Provide secretarial or executive services for committees
Maintaining optimal stock levels to ensure timely availability of products. • Managing an Inventory team comprising of Shift Managers and team leaders. • Setting operational standards for all staff to follow. 4 • Managing excess and ageing stock. • Reviewing service levels on a continuous basis. • Using electronic inventory tracking to scan stock and reconcile inventory. • Minimizing exposure to obsolete and excess stock. • Putting forward recommendations for operational policy, procedures and goals. • Creating and maintaining spreadsheets to report and analyze data. • Recruiting, hiring and managing a team of Inventory Counters. • Maintaining effective business relationships with customers. • Issuing purchase orders to customers. • Presenting written reports and analyses to senior managers. • Coordinating the shipment of goods from the warehouse. • Sending reports and documents to customers. • Investigating customer complaints. • Using scanning terminals, and professional fixed asset tracking software.
Providing financial advice. • Management of financial systems and budgets. • Undertaking financial audits. • Complete VAT Returns. • Advising on tax planning. • Performing tests to check financial information and systems. • Maintaining records, preparing accounts and management information. • Advising on business transactions, such as mergers and acquisitions. • Advising clients on areas of business improvement, or dealing with insolvency. • Detecting and preventing fraud (forensic accounting). • Managing junior colleagues and trainees
Reconciling finance accounts. • Maintaining spreadsheets. • Credit control. • Preparing statutory accounts. • Cash allocation. • Sales order processing. • Managing daily post in and out. 5 • Handling and writing cheques. • Receiving and processing all invoices, expense forms and requests for payment. • Verifying calculations working with the Accounts system. • Reconciliation of Direct Debit mandates. • Managing petty cash transactions.