Sustainable Cities and Communities

Closed on: September 12th 2023
- 2 years ago -

C-Quest Capital is hiring an

Accountant

📝 FULL-TIME 🎯 MID LEVEL

C-Quest Capital LLC (CQC) is a social impact investor, project developer, and climate finance specialist with a mission to transform the lives of families in the poorest communities in developing counties by providing them access to clean and sustainable energy services, clean energy technologies and improving the health and wellbeing of women and children. CQC was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Washington DC, USA with subsidiaries in India, Malaysia, Singapore, and Cambodia as well as on-ground teams in Malawi, Zambia, and rapidly growing into other Sub-Saharan Africa countries.

CQC is a leader in providing clean efficient cooking and lighting services to the rural poor worldwide and has growing businesses in renewable energy production and supply, sustainable agricultural land use, and forestry. CQC’s projects are implemented either through operational platforms and subsidiaries or through closely managed partnerships and joint ventures with on-the-ground organizations. CQC has active investments in over 15 countries across Sub-Saharan Africa, Central America, and South and East Asia that have thus far improved the lives of over 20 million people.

Background: CQC is rapidly expanding investment in cleaner cooking services, efficient lighting, and sustainable energy across core geographies to improve the overall well-being of the communities and align with the sustainable development goals in the overall development approach.

The Role: this position has responsibility to carry out accounting processes and ensure accurate and timely reconciliation of all operational summaries to include:

  • Filing, posting and archiving of all vouchers without errors.
  • Ensuring assets bought or issued to staff are entered into asset register.
  • Daily bank reconciliation of all bank accounts-Local or Foreign denominated. Preparation of entries for all bank reconciliation differences.
  • Filing all accounting documents which include cheques, receipts, operational summaries, bank statements, etc. monthly.
  • Manage and control telephone bills. Manage other utilities.
  • Prepare a day's forecast /cash position prior to presentation of payments for signing.
  • Preparation of journals for accruals and prepayments for the month including: Depreciation, Retention, Bonus, Leave pay, FBT, Doubtful debts.
  • Prepare summary of bank originating payments, bank charges.
  • Manage own KPIs and report accordingly.
  • Other duties which management may assign to you from time to time.

Supervision: The Accountant will report to the General Manager in LPG with dotted line to the Finance Manager

Qualifications and specialized knowledge/experience required:

  • Bachelor’s degree in business administration, accountancy, or a related quantitative field.

  • At least 3 years of accounting relevant experience required

  • ACCA professional certification, or ICAM certification preferred.

  • Written and oral proficiency and literacy in English language and fluency in local language.

  • Advanced working knowledge in Microsoft office (MS Word, MS Excel, and MS Power Point).

  • Experience in Retail or Wholesale an added advantage.

  • Hands on experience in using QuickBooks.

Location:  Malawi


C-Quest Capital

C-Quest Capital cquestcapital.com

C-Quest Capital LLC (CQC) is a social impact project developer whose purpose is to transform the lives of families in poor communities around the world. We do this by providing access to sustainable energy services and clean energy technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, combat global climate change, and improve the health of those in need.

🏷 Details

Posted on
August 30th 2023
Closing on
September 12th 2023
Department
LPG
Experience
MID-LEVEL
Type
FULL-TIME

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