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About the company
Banque du Caire
Banking
Job Summary
The Technical Accounting Officer is responsible for maintaining accurate account classifications and accounting treatments across the bank’s accounting systems, ensuring compliance with approved accounting policies, IFRS, and CBE regulations. The role supports daily account analysis, discrepancy resolution, account reconciliations, and month-end closing activities to ensure the accuracy and integrity of financial records.
Job Responsibilities:
-Prepare and follow up on account creation forms and requests for new accounts in coordination with the relevant business units and departments, ensuring compliance with approved guidelines and procedures.
-Maintain and review existing accounts, verifying their nature, classification, and alignment with the approved Chart of Accounts for each product.
-Enter and maintain new account information in the bank’s accounting and core banking systems, ensuring accurate account classification in accordance with approved accounting standards and procedures, in coordination with the Financial Reporting Department.
-Monitor daily account balances and perform account analysis to verify the accuracy and consistency of accounting records and system balances, escalating discrepancies to the direct supervisor as appropriate.
-Review discrepancies arising between accounts and products, coordinate with the relevant departments to investigate their causes, and follow up on the required corrective and settlement actions.
-Execute and support the review of daily accounting transactions and instructions under the applicable approval framework, ensuring compliance with the bank’s approved accounting policies, procedures, and internal controls.
-Perform data entry and maintenance of financial analysis information, ensuring the accuracy, completeness, and integrity of the recorded data.
-Support the preparation of financial reports and month-end closing activities, particularly the reconciliation of balance sheet accounts, in coordination with the relevant departments.
-Perform basic account reconciliations in accordance with approved instructions and follow up on outstanding reconciling items to support their timely resolution.
-Support the implementation and maintenance of departmental accounting policies, procedures, and controls, ensuring the consistent application of approved accounting methodologies and applicable regulatory requirements.
-Coordinate with relevant business units, branches, and internal departments to address accounting inquiries, resolve discrepancies, and ensure the accurate and consistent application of accounting procedures within the scope of assigned responsibilities.
-Maintain the accuracy, completeness, and confidentiality of accounting records and financial information in the bank’s systems, ensuring compliance with established data management and information security requirements.
-Perform other related accounting duties as assigned by the direct supervisor, in accordance with the department’s objectives, approved procedures, and assigned responsibilities.
Job Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or an equivalent qualification.
0–2 years of relevant accounting experience.
Basic and intermediate knowledge of accounting principles and practices.
Intermediate MS Excel skills.
Understanding of account classification, account reconciliation, and financial reporting principles.
Familiarity with banking accounting systems and applicable accounting standards is an advantage.