DEADLINE: 02/08/2024
Remote Financial Accountant
Full-time
We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Remote Financial Accountant to join our team. As a Remote Financial Accountant, you will play a vital role in ensuring accurate financial reporting, maintaining compliance with regulations, and providing valuable insights for decision-making. This is a remote position, offering the flexibility to work from anywhere.
What we offer in this role
- Challenging work in a 100% remote environment.
- Fast-paced environment with intellectually stimulating work.
- Committed and remarkably talented colleagues.
- An exciting and challenging career with unlimited growth opportunities.
- An opportunity to build things from scratch and make independent decisions.
- Opportunity to lead a talented team.
Requirements
- Minimum 2-3 years of experience in Finance
- Ability to leverage technology to simplify, improve and innovate finance processes and systems.
- Entrepreneurial individual ready to take complete ownership of finance processes.
- Advanced analytical and numerical skills
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and accounting software; familiarity with data query/data management tools is desirable.
- Independent thinker with a growth mindset.
Responsibilities
- Manage weekly bank reconciliation and other standard bookkeeping tasks.
- Coordinate the preparation, tracking, and reconciliation of ledgers, budgets, and financial plans.
- Examining financial records to check for accuracy.
- Advise on adoption of appropriate accounting treatments.
- Manage month-end and year-end close processes.
- Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual statements (balance sheets and income statements) to identify results, trends, and financial forecasts.
- Manage and coordinate compliance with local, state, and federal government reporting requirements and tax filings in the different jurisdictions in which we have operations.
- Collaborate with auditing services to ensure proper compliance with all regulations.
- Prepare and analyse key competitor analysis and make recommendations for improvements.
- Overseeing the financial liquidity of the company
- Responding to financial inquiries by gathering and interpreting data
- Motivate/lead/train/supervise other team members within the finance function.
Desirable Qualities
- 2+ years’ experience in one of the large accounting /audit firms.
- Exposure to finance issues in multiple jurisdictions
- 1+ years in similar business activities (e.g., Trading / Electricity Trading).
- Experience with Group accounting and cross border transactions
- In-depth understanding of bookkeeping procedures
- Solid knowledge of accounting regulations
- BSc degree in Commerce, Accounting, Finance, Statistics, Economics or relevant field
- Additional certification (e.g. ACCA or CPA) is preferred
Application deadline:
August 2, 2024
About Cobblestone Energy
Industry: Power Supply
Location: Kampala, Uganda
Founded in 2017 in the UK, we are now headquartered in Dubai, UAE and operate in the European short-term power markets. We match the interests of power supply and demand in terms of timing and place of delivery.
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