Accounting Head

Position: Accounting Head

Occupational Category: Professional/ Managerial

Job Location: Djibouti

Reports To: The company manager

Employment Type: Full-Time

Role Overview

The Accounting Head plays a critical role in overseeing financial reporting, maintaining general ledger integrity, ensuring compliance, and performing balance sheet reconciliations. This position demands cost accounting, inventory management, applicable tax laws and strong financial reporting standards, keen analytical skills, and the ability to mentor junior team members while supporting strategic financial decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversees Transactional Records and Source Document Capture: ensures all financial transactions are accurately captured, categorized, and verifiable. Collecting and archiving essential physical and digital receipts, invoices, bills, and purchase orders to support every entry made.
• General Ledger & Financial Reporting: Lead month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing processes. Prepare and post journal entries, review general ledger accounts, and draft timely financial statements.
• Balance Sheet Integrity & Reconciliations: Advanced ability to perform complex account reconciliations, manage fixed assets, analyze and resolve variances promptly, and keep books "audit-ready".
• Payroll and Intercompany records: Retaining accurate employee payment records, tax, benefits, and time-tracking data etc. Logging and tracking transfers, billings, and loans between intercompany and subsidiary to ensure proper reconciliation.
• Compliance & Audit: Ensure adherence to accounting principles and tax regulations. Act as a primary point of contact for internal and external auditors.
• Financial Analysis & Forecasting: Analyze financial data, variance reports, and operational trends to deliver actionable insights to management. Assist with budgeting and periodical forecasting.
• Process Improvement: Identify bottlenecks in current accounting workflows and implement scalable controls and operational efficiencies.

Key Competency:

• Discipline to align with the onshore team's working hours for critical deliverables
• Exceptional written English and ability to document standard operating procedures (SOPs), provide clear email updates, and communicate complex issues over Teams.
• Advanced Data & Spreadsheet Modeling: advanced excel proficiency and other data processing software for dynamic reporting.
• Demonstrates openness to change and learning in new working culture and environment
• Ability to consistently approach work with energy and a positive and constructive attitude.
• Self-starter and ability to manage (perform) without supervision
• Ability to remain calm and in control under pressure
• Ability to meet short deadlines