Are you a qualified accountant? Do you have hands on experience with group accounting and consolidated reporting? Are you excited about working in a mission-driven environment with smart like-minded individuals and contributing to building an exceptional global talent community? Does the prospect of working to deliver operational excellence and providing actionable insights into business performance resonate with you? Would you say money matters are your superpower?
Sounds like you? Continue reading…
ABOUT US
In 2035, Africa will have the largest workforce in the world and will need to catalyse transformation by empowering its largest untapped resource – its people. Fuelled by this, the African Leadership Group is an ecosystem of institutions with a shared vision to harness Africa’s abundant human capital and transform the continent and the world by selecting, developing, and connecting 2 million young leaders to opportunities by 2030. ALG was founded over 15 years ago by Fred Swaniker, a serial entrepreneur recognised by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of 2019. ALX and The Room are two brands of the African Leadership Group.
ALX is our training arm, focused on developing skills for the fourth industrial revolution (software engineering, devops, data science, etc.) to ensure that Africa is able to compete effectively as the world undergoes a digital transformation. To cement this, through our legal entity African Leadership International (ALI), we have signed an agreement to acquire Silicon Valley based Holberton Inc. – a project-based, college alternative educating the next generation of software engineers. This will give us ownership of the advanced technology program that will enable us to provide global organizations access to significant untapped pools of talent that can bridge the growing global shortage of technology talent. For more on this, please read this article here.
The Room our talent placement arm, is a community that our young talent join to access global work opportunities. To learn more about us, please read this article about why we launched The Room & this article about the impact of our development programs on African youth. View this pitch deck to see how we present ourselves to employers.
ABOUT THE FINANCE TEAM NAME
We are brave and courageous stewards of capital, customer service oriented and always strive for improvement, while delivering excellence. We provide financial and commercial support to enable delivery of The Room’s strategic plan through dealing with all money matters (invoicing customers, paying suppliers and talents, reimbursing employee expenses and payment of employee wages), cash flow management, budgeting and planning, analysing performance data trends while reporting on key financial KPIs and providing actionable insights into business performance to Exco.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Your role as Senior Accountant is to ensure that as a for profit company we are operating ethically with best in class systems and as a cost effective organization. You will ensure
operational excellence for the organization and subsequent stakeholder satisfaction as well as contribute to our business strategy and our bottom line which is based on being a cost
effective organization.
More specifically your role will include:
- Taking ownership of the day-to-day, monthly and year end operations of the financial reporting function.
- Maintaining the integrity of the general ledger of all subsidiaries at all times
- Leading the month-end close process in line with group reporting deadlines
- Performing general accounts analysis and reconciliations including bank statements, fixed assets, accruals, prepayments, deferred revenue and intercompany matching
- Assist in processing monthly payroll for +150 staff
- Assist in year end close and prepare for statutory audit in line with set deadlines and statutory requirements
- Preparing weekly cash flow forecast to support treasury management
- Developing and ensuring compliance with group policies and regulatory requirements
- Liaising with banks, tax authority and other relevant external parties
- Assisting the Financial Controller and Head FP&A with ad hoc projects including investors’ reporting and budget.
REQUIREMENTS:
- You are a qualified accountant (CA, CIMA, ACCA or equivalent) with at least 3 years of post-
- qualification experience in an accounting role
- You have strong auditing, accounting and financial reporting skills
- Experience in group reporting and accounting for Mergers and Acquisitions will be an added
- advantage
- You are detail-oriented and triple-check important documents, emails, presentations, etc.
- You are proficient with spreadsheets and you have working knowledge of an accounting software
- You have great written and verbal communication skills, including ability to interact effectively at
- various levels of stakeholder management
- You have a frugal mentality and are a strategic thinker that can help us become lean and
- financially efficient
- You have an open mindset: Should be open to changes and the unknown
We would like to remind you that this is a remote job, meaning you can work from anywhere in the world. However, we prefer a GMT to GMT +4 time zone.