Job Summary

•  Maintains school fiscal records related to appropriations, expenditures, revenue, and cost accounting functions.
•  Prepares and posts bookkeeping entries.
•  Calculates, adjusts, verifies and balances assigned accounts.
•  Maintains balance of general ledger to subsidiary ledgers.
•  Performs accounts receivable/payable functions to include verifying charges and authorization.
•  Monitors departmental and school budgets to assure availability of funds prior to approval of expenditures.
•  Prepares departmental or special project budget estimates for income and expenditures, calculating extensions according to appropriate formulas and schedules.
•  Plans, schedules, and supervises the flow of accounting data.
•  Maintains position control and reconciles with budget and payroll.
•  Compiles computes and prepares complex statistical data and financial reports such as month and year-end closing, balance sheets, income and expenditure statements.
•  Compiles monthly attendance data.
•  Perform related duties as assigned.

Qualification Required & Experience

Knowledge and Abilities:

•  Use of electronic spread sheets, data bases, and computer data processing.
•  Procedures and practices required in research, data collection, statistical computation and reports.

Ability To:

•  Learn coding of financial data for computer entry.
•  Apply accounting principles and procedures.
•  Operate computer terminal, calculating machines, ten-key adding machines and with speed and accuracy.
•  Analyze and interpret financial records and reports.
•  Make arithmetic computations with speed and accuracy.
•  Maintain cooperative work relationships.
•  Communicate effectively both orally and in writing.

Education and Experience:  

•  Two years of higher education including course work in accounting procedures and/or practices combined with two years of accounting experience, preferably in a school position.
•  Four years of experience may be substituted for one year of education.

Location: Accra

How To Apply For The Job

Interested qualified applicants should forward their resume and application letter to: Springforthgh@yahoo.com, using the job title as the subject line of the email.

Closing Date: 17 May, 2013