Chief accountant

A representative office of a Japanese non-commercial organization announces a vacancy for the position of Chief accounting in its Almaty office in a full-time job. Chief Accountant required with the below specification, who will be familiar with not only accounting & taxation but other corporate matters, such as HR, administration, etc. Working experience in representative offices, non-profit and non-governmental organizations will be an advantage.

Responsibilities:

• Management of accounting and reporting at the enterprise.
• Formation of accounting policy with the development of measures for its implementation.
• Ensuring the compilation of payroll, charges, and transfers of taxes and fees to budgets of different levels, and payments to banking institutions.
• Control over the timely and correct execution of accounting documentation.
• Ensuring healthy and safe working conditions for subordinates, and monitoring their compliance with the requirements of legislative and regulatory acts on labor protection.
• Proper management and implementation of all HR and administrative documentation.
• Carry out the organization of accounting of economic and financial activities and control over the economic use of material, labor, and financial resources, the safety of the property of the Representative Office.
• Organize accounting of property, liabilities and business transactions, incoming fixed assets, inventory, and cash, execution of cost estimates, performance of work (services), results of financial and economic activities of the Representative Office, as well as financial, settlement and credit transactions, timely reflection of transactions related to their movement on accounts.
• Exercise control over the observance of the procedure for processing primary and accounting documents, settlements and payment obligations, expenditure of the wage fund, conducting stock control of fixed assets, inventories, and cash, audits of the organization of accounting and reporting, as well as documentary audits in the divisions (branches) of the enterprise.
• Participate in preparing materials on shortages and theft of funds and inventories, and control the transfer of these materials to investigative and judicial authorities, if necessary.
• Lead the preparation and adoption of a working chart of accounts, forms of primary accounting documents used for processing transactions for which standard forms are not provided, the development of forms of documents for internal financial statements, as well as ensuring the procedure for conducting stock control, monitoring operations, observing accounting processing technology information and order of workflow.
• Participate in the economic analysis of the activities of the Representative Office based on accounting and reporting data to identify internal reserves, and eliminate losses and overhead costs.
• Carry out work to ensure strict observance of staff, financial and cash discipline, estimates of administrative, economic, and other costs, the legality of writing off shortages, receivables, and other losses from accounts, the safety of accounting documents, registration and filing them in the archive in the prescribed manner.
• Take measures to accumulate funds to ensure the sustainability of the Representative Office.
• Ensure the preparation of a balance sheet and operational consolidated reports on income and expenditure of funds, on the use of the budget, other accounting and statistical reporting, and their submission to the relevant authorities in the prescribed manner.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's/master’s degree in accounting with a proven track record and over 5 years in chief accounting position.
• Proficiency in English at the Advanced level is essential (The direct supervisor manager is an English-speaking foreigner).
• Strong computer skills, especially in Microsoft Office (1C-8.3, Excel, Word, and Outlook).

Conditions:

• Official employment.
• Working hour is 9:00 – 18:00 from Monday to Friday
• The office is located in the upper part of the city