• Verify supporting documents for validity, accuracy and completeness, and capture the payments and/or receipts on the accounting system
• Review General Ledger reconciliations (including bank, suspense and interdepartmental accounts)
• Manage General Ledger and Subsidiary Ledger reconciliations (including bank, debtors, creditors, suspense and interdepartmental accounts)
• Perform month-end and year-end accounts closure process
• Liaising with the outsourced payroll administrator regarding any changes and updating the payroll schedule for salary payments
• Consolidate and reconcile payroll data, and prepare statutory and other payroll returns including managing the leave schedules etc.
• Post monthly journals (payroll, depreciation, and other non-routine journals)
• Capture and maintain Masterfile information (creditors, debtors, payroll and assets) on the accounting system
• Review and process month end journals  
• Preparation of monthly management accounts
• Develop, maintain and analyse budgets and compilation of periodic reports that compare budgets to actuals
• Maintain and update the organisation’s funder database, noting all reporting requirements with funders
• Presentation of monthly results to data and innovation team in terms of actuals vs budgeted spend etc.
• Ensuring that all company-related filing is accurate, complete, and up to date

Payments and Invoicing:

• Preparation of relevant invoices with stakeholders / funders
• Payments as required across programmes including but not limited to stipends Cash-backs etc.
• Update and maintain trackers on a monthly basis
• Uploading and onboarding of suppliers as stipulated in the finance policy
• Loading invoices for payment, ensuring that all relevant approvals have been obtained
• Liasing with the necessary parties to ensure agents payments are made timeously
• Ensuring that failed payments are communicated to the relevant parties for resolution
• Ensuring the correct allocation of all ledger entries

• Monthly bank and petty cash reconciliations
• Supplier reconciliations

• Sourcing and identifying the most suitable suppliers in line with the company’s financial policy

• Assist the finance manager with ad hoc tasks as required (analysis, budgeting, reconciliations and stakeholder reports)
• Assisting with ensuring bank mandates are up to date
• Managing the audit and other review processes, including liaising with auditors and responding to their requests
• Managing the issuing, recording, reconciliation, replenishment, safeguarding, and accounting of petty cash processes
• Responsible for the filing, storage, retrieval, and safeguarding of source and face value documents
• Support with travel arrangements as required
• Provide support with organizing the Annual AGM and other funder convenings, as required
• Supporting operations in achieving their delivery targets