Massive Recruitment for Accountants in Ghana

Report to: Finance Manager
Department: Finance

Position Summary:
Ensure accurate and reliable accounting for capital projects.

Duties:

• Track purchase orders and other commitments by project
• Ensure commitments and expenditures against a project are appropriate to and within the scope and design of the project per the approved AFE (Authorisation for Expenditure).
• Ensure receipts and expenditures against a project are booked in the appropriate period
• Enforce advanced approvals of spending and significant variances to approved spending levels, principally by assisting with forecasts of spending, inclusive of commitments, and comparing the resultant forecasts with budgeted and approved amounts
• Support our tax consultants by periodically providing them with a comprehensive list of additions to PP&E in line with the appropriate tax classifications for capital allowance computations.
• Participate in the creation and maintenance of Fixed Assets Register
• Conduct periodic fixed assets verifications and tagging
• Assist in management of the asset disposal process.
• Prepare journal entries for depreciation, transfers, impairments, disposals, etc and participate in other month-end closure activities.
• Perform monthly reconciliation of Capital Works-in-Progress account per project
• xi. Prepare and submit to management a monthly report on the overall capital expenditure status.
• xii. Demonstrate team work particularly by working with project managers, purchasing-buyers, project consultants, etc engaged in the capex process.

Required Skills or Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
• 3 years’ experience in similar accounting role
• Must be well versed in MS Excel
• Experience in Mining industry is preferred

Reports to: Chief Accountant
Department: Finance

Position Summary:
Ensure effective and efficient management of account payables of Chirano Gold Mines Ltd and Red Back Mining (Gh) Ltd

Duties:

• Supervise the Payables section.
• Ensure all invoices / debit notes/ are properly registered, coded, and approved by the appropriate authority before they are processed for payment
• Ensure all invoices are appropriately matched with relevant purchase orders, goods received notes, contracts, agreements, etc. before they are processed for payment
• Effectively collaborate with treasury to manage payment due-dates to ensure compliance with purchase order and contractual terms.
• Supervise quarterly reconciliation of supplier accounts.
• Prepare and circularise quarterly statements of account to vendors and resolve all related queries.
• Develop initiatives to identify and resolve underlying causes of errors and omissions that lead to disputed accounts.
• Monitor the age of advance payments to suppliers and advise on exceptional balances / accounts.
• Ensure all payments are in compliance with the appropriate legal requirements such as VAT, Withholding Tax, etc.
• Prepare, file returns, and ensure payments in a timely manner of such obligations as VAT, Withholding Tax, etc.
• Ensure suppliers and contractors are appropriately invoiced for items / services received from CGML and accordingly recovered from their payments.
• Ensure the payables section timely participates in month, quarter, and year-end closing in accordance with the corporate time table and reporting requirements.