Project Accountant

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supervise the site payments for all expenses; maintain daily cash book and daily bank book.
• Perform professional accounting work,under the direction of Project Engineer/Project Manager, including analyzing financial and statistical reports and reconciling main expense accounts, preparing a monthly and annual expenses statement, and performing related work as required.
• Ensure that all cash payments, bank payments, and journal expense vouchers are being authorized by the Project Engineer/Project Manager, and that all the relevant documents are attached with the payment and journal vouchers.
• Ensure that all the withdrawals from the bank are approved by the Project Engineer/Project Manager.
• Ensure that Cash, Bank,and Journal Vouchers are properly filed in the folders and are being maintained in a chronological order.
• Arrange to forward fortnightly duly approved cash and bank statement from the Project Engineer/Project Manager, along with cash & bank payment vouchers and journal vouchers, on or before the due dates to the Head Office.
• Ensure that the actual balance in the cash book/petty cash book is matching with the daily physical balance of the Cash Book/petty cash book, and the Bank Book balance is reconciled with the balance in the bank statement at the end of the month, and that outstanding transactions in the bank reconciliation statement are sorted out and timely passed in the books of accounts.
• Ensure and verify that the value of physical balance of inventory at each site at the end of physical inspections are reconciled with the financial ledgers and any discrepancies between the records for various reasons have been sorted out and adjustment entries have been prepared and forwarded to Head Office to be passed in the accounting books.
• Coordinate with Project Management on daily basis.
  
  

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor Degree in business Administration with experience in Construction Projects
• Must be Chartered Accountant (CPA or equivalent)
• Minimum 4 years of experience in Project Construction
• Working Knowledge of Microsoft Excel
• Experience in preparation of monthly reports such as charges and payroll
• Handling costs and bank operations and reconciliations