Accountant – Accounts Payables Full Time

Overview of the role: 

To ensure accuracy and integrity of the company’s financial records. Responsible for a wide range of accounting – payable functions, including reporting, account reconciliations, journal entries, and trend analysis. To work closely with the finance team and across departments to provide support and ensure the smooth and efficient operation.

What you will do: 

Customers

• To provide support to internal customers: Malls business team in relation to financial reporting of expenses, through effective communication in order to meet the business needs and contribute to improving current processes
• Center point of contact for Business on all expense related matters. Approving all PR’s in Ariba prior to approval of Finance Manager.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for complete accounting cycle for Malls. (Expense, Monthly Closing Accruals & Reporting).
• Ensure PO’s are addressed in system on a monthly basis against completed works & services. Cumulative monthly provision to be reviewed and calculated on monthly basis.
• Evaluation of various expense requests in terms of justification for the expenses, budget availability etc., verification of LPO’s, coding and posting of approved expenses as per budget in respective GL Accounts, cost centres and ensure approval as per DOA for Opex & Capex.
• Ensure approved payments are released as per agreed payment terms and all supporting documents are in compliance with Company’s Policies & Procedures and approved as per DOA, including timely settlement for Intercompany payments.
• Liaise with FP&A team and provide the cash flow inputs for weekly and monthly forecasts.
• Ensure timely and accurate accounting for all operating expenses (Opex) and capital expenditures (Capex) and provide detailed schedules to the Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team to aid in budgeting and forecasting.
• Prepare expense trackers and reports at the end of each month for submission to the FP&A team for review and dashboard reporting preparation.
• Ensure Balance sheet reconciliation is conducted on a quarterly basis with detailed schedule for all expense related items for Finance Manager’s review.
• Ensure that all recoverable expenses are accurately and promptly recorded in coordination with both the Accounts Receivable team and the business team.
• Ensuring all payments are reviewed before getting released and providing confirmation to signatories and reviewing cashflow impact.
• Providing support to FP&A for preparing schedules (Utilities, Capex, Expenses etc.) and co-ordinating with external auditor.
• Coordinating with Bank for necessary DOA updates like signatories, access, preparing Memos and liaise with Owner for necessary approvals.