Accountant Lead

To execute daily financial operations, manage accounts payable and receivable ledgers, compile accurate financial reviews, and safeguard institutional regulatory tax compliance for UMS.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or Accounting, or pursuing active intermediate professional phases (such as ACCA or CPA)

• 3+ years of comprehensive corporate bookkeeping, payroll management, and credit control experience.

• Enterprise accounting software fluency (QuickBooks/Sage/Xero)

• advanced Excel array modeling; absolute financial integrity, precision organization, and logical verification  

• Transactional Ledger Bookkeeping: Execute accurate daily data entry across cash books, general ledgers, accounts payable, and accounts receivable systems. Reconcile all corporate bank transactions and credit accounts daily against the internal ERP system.

• Credit Control & Debt Collection Management: Audit aging customer accounts receivable daily. Initiate assertive but highly professional debt recovery collections procedures via phone, formal demand letters, and payment structuring to minimize non-payment risk.

• Accounts Payable & Cash Flow Management: Process vendor and supplier invoices, cross-referencing them against approved internal purchase orders and receiving logs. Prepare scheduled supplier payment runs to protect cash-flow liquidity.

• Payroll & Statutory Filing Processing: Calculate monthly staff payroll variables, tracking authorized overtime hours, sales commissions, bonuses, and sick-leave penalties. Manage and file all statutory staff deductions, local income tax matchings, and VAT returns.

• Financial Compilation & Audit Support: Pull and package monthly Profit and Loss statements, Balance Sheets, and specific departmental cost-variance models for senior leadership reviews. Gather and organize ledger records to assist external auditing teams.