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Yara Fertilizer Zambia Limited is looking to fill the permanent position of a Finance Clerk in Lusaka, Zambia, reporting to the Accountant and assisting with the smooth running of the finance department.

Role and Responsibilities

Vendors

• Monthly vendor reconciliations.
• Weekly intercompany reconciliations and reporting.Advertise in Zambia
• Assistance with posting vendor invoices
• Assistance with raising purchase orders and coding transport vendor invoices,
• Scanning and recording of proof of deliveries to effect clearing of payments.
• Assistance with weekly clearing of manual payments on vendor accounts.
• Identify unposted invoices at month end and create accruals journal for missing costs.

General Ledger

• Assist with month end journals.
• Monthly clearing of control accounts in Enterprise Resource Planning System; SAP.

Cash and Bank

• Posting petty cash transactions on SAP.
• Posting weekly Citibank and Stanbic bank allocations.
• Post the Cashpooler Account at month end.
• Prepare and upload the weekly cash reports.
• Prepare and post monthly foreign exchange reevaluation journals for the cashbooks.

Other

• Daily compilation and distribution of sales performance dashboard.
• Assist with the annual collection and forwarding of audit items to designated audit firm.
• Assist with year-end verification of fixed assets.
• Posting of sales invoices in the ZRA Smart Invoice Portal
• Support the accountant with monthly filing of rental tax, RVAT and VAT where required.
• Assist with financial tasks as required by the Accountant and Financial Controller

Functional Knowledge

• Good understanding of the procedure to pay process.
• Understanding of the business impact of non-payment of vendors.
• Good knowledge of Withholding tax, VAT and corporate tax.
• Microsoft Office software, email, internet etc.
• Exposure to and knowledge of SAP or similar Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system

Competencies

• Self-Motivated and disciplined.
• Proactive and solution driven.
• Accuracy and attention to detail are essential.
• Reconciliations and analytics
• Business Expertise, Leadership, Problem Solving, Interpersonal Skills
• Exercising financial activities within the framework of Yara’s code of ethics and corporate governance.
• Ability to work independently within a diverse and geographically dispersed team.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and drive corrective actions and continuous improvements efforts within own work environment.
• Fluent written and spoken English and good communication skills.

Qualifications and Experience

• Completion of Secondary School.
• Minimum of 2 years’ work experience in a similar position.

• Monthly vendor reconciliations.
• Weekly intercompany reconciliations and reporting.
• Assistance with posting vendor invoices
• Assistance with raising purchase orders and coding transport vendor invoices,
• Scanning and recording of proof of deliveries to effect clearing of payments.
• Assistance with weekly clearing of manual payments on vendor accounts.
• Identify unposted invoices at month end and create accruals journal for missing costs.
• Assist with month end journals.
• Monthly clearing of control accounts in Enterprise Resource Planning System; SAP.
• Posting petty cash transactions on SAP.
• Posting weekly Citibank and Stanbic bank allocations.
• Post the Cashpooler Account at month end.
• Prepare and upload the weekly cash reports.
• Prepare and post monthly foreign exchange reevaluation journals for the cashbooks.
• Daily compilation and distribution of sales performance dashboard.
• Assist with the annual collection and forwarding of audit items to designated audit firm.
• Assist with year-end verification of fixed assets.
• Posting of sales invoices in the ZRA Smart Invoice Portal
• Support the accountant with monthly filing of rental tax, RVAT and VAT where required.
• Assist with financial tasks as required by the Accountant and Financial Controller

• Good understanding of the procedure to pay process.
• Understanding of the business impact of non-payment of vendors.
• Good knowledge of Withholding tax, VAT and corporate tax.
• Microsoft Office software, email, internet etc.
• Exposure to and knowledge of SAP or similar Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system
• Self-Motivated and disciplined.
• Proactive and solution driven.
• Accuracy and attention to detail are essential.
• Reconciliations and analytics
• Business Expertise, Leadership, Problem Solving, Interpersonal Skills
• Exercising financial activities within the framework of Yara’s code of ethics and corporate governance.
• Ability to work independently within a diverse and geographically dispersed team.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and drive corrective actions and continuous improvements efforts within own work environment.
• Fluent written and spoken English and good communication skills.

• Completion of Secondary School.
• Minimum of 2 years’ work experience in a similar position.