Analyst,Financial,2
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Ghana
Religious Institutions · 10,001+ employees
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About the role
The analyst is responsible for preparing and reviewing financial statements, budgets, and management reports while ensuring compliance with accounting principles. They also conduct internal control reviews and provide functional guidance to less-experienced staff.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must hold a university degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Management and possess at least four years of relevant professional experience. Proficiency in Microsoft Office, automated accounting software, and strong analytical skills are required.
Full description
Finance employees receive, account for, monitor, and design internal controls to safeguard sacred funds (donated confidentially in obedience to God's commandments) for the Church's religious mission under the direction of senior ecclesiastical leaders.
This career professional role helps prepare, analyze, and review financial statements and budgets. It will also prepare management reports, train personnel in financial principles, help prepare policies and procedures, and perform internal reviews and some accounting functions. Customers of the role, including operational and financial managers and supervisors, will receive information that will help them conduct the business and financial affairs of a large, complex unit or division in a legal and professional manner.
Responsibilities
- Prepare and analyze budgets and financial statements using information from operating statements, account ledgers, work order reports, project tracking systems, etc. for a large, complex unit or division of a department.
- Anticipate future needs.
- Analytically review budget and financial statements.
- Reconcile appropriation and cash flow budgets to the general ledger.
- Ensure correct coding to the general ledger.
- Ensure compliance with generally accepted accounting principles.
- Identify trends and potential areas of concern.
- Initiate basic adjustments, as needed, and report actions.
- Prepare management reports.
- Investigate alternatives.
- Create reports, charts, and graphs illustrating findings.
- Recommend adjustments.
- Perform on-site internal control reviews.
- Review documents dealing with appropriation or transfer of budgets.
- Work with division managers to resolve differences.
- Conducts internal control reviews.
- Includes cost studies and overhead analysis of income sources, cost justifications, and savings analysis for data processing hardware and other equipment.
- Prepare financial procedures.
- Position may provide functional advice or training to less-experienced financial analyst positions.
- Other projects as assigned, which may include assisting and completion of other accounting duties.
- Incumbents in this position typically work with international accounting and finance.
Qualifications
Required:
- Completion of a university (post-secondary) degree in Accounting (or Finance or Business Management).
- 4 years of relevant experience in accounting, auditing, business management, or related field.
- Demonstrate understanding of accounting principles and Church accounting systems.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively use a personal computer operating in a network environment with demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office suite and automated accounting and reporting software.
- Must be able to learn new software.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to train, influence, and motivate others.
- Good verbal and written communication skills including
- May also require:• Strong knowledge of tax, labor and legal issues.
- Fluency in EnglishProficiency in PBI, Tableau or similar
Preferred:
- MBA
- Familiarity with Church accounting systems
- Country-specific Preferred Qualifications:
- ICAG,
- ACCA,
- CIMA, or
- CPA.
