Accounting Manager Africa

As Accounting Manager for our African entities, you will play a crucial role in ensuring financial clarity, compliance, and control across multiple jurisdictions. Your work will empower ecoligo to scale its climate-positive projects with confidence and precision. By overseeing day-to-day accounting, ensuring tax compliance, and driving process improvements, you will lay the financial groundwork that supports our mission to fight the climate crisis. Your eye for detail and ability to stay calm in a fast-paced environment will make you a key pillar of our international Finance & Accounting team. If you're excited to bring structure, efficiency, and purpose to a growing impact-driven business, we’d love to meet you.

Strategic Objectives

• Accurate and timely reporting to internal and external stakeholders: In this role, you are responsible for the accuracy of our financial records, which serve as basis for reporting to shareholders and debt providers
• Invoicing and cash collection: Together with the asset management team, you work relentlessly in invoicing and dunning, helping to collect revenues from our clients
• You develop a deep system understanding of our accounting software AccountsIQ and help with intercompany transactions and Group consolidation

Foundational Objectives

• Regular bookkeeping: Perform daily financial transactions including AP, AR, Fixed Assets and Accruals
• Manage the month-end close of African entities including monthly tax filings in close collaboration with our tax advisors
• Manage the year-end close and annual audit African entities in close collaboration with our tax advisors
• Manage the payment cycle in close collaboration with the Treasury Department
• Challenge and improve the processes in your area of work and contribute to the automation and digitalization of our company

Key skills to drive impact

• Strong knowledge of accounting principles and tax regulations in Kenya and Ghana: Together with local tax advisors and the rest of the team, you will ensure that our books are kept up to date and reconcile to ensure timely and accurate filings
• Attention to detail and ability to improve processes: In order to improve processes and catch errors before they appear/correct historic errors, we are looking for a process-driven candidate with high attention to detail 
• At least 3 years of relevant prior experience in an international context
• Bachelor's degree plus professional certifications (CPA-K or ACCA), Advanced Tax training as a plus
• Ability to take full ownership: We are looking for an individual that does not shy away from taking ownership for the tasks provided, is proactive and proposes improvements where needed.