Senior Accountant
- Accounting
- Full time
- Arima or Arouca or Piarco
- 06/10/2025
- Featured
Job Overview
Date Posted:
Posted 06/10/2025Experience:
Entry LevelSalary:
UndisclosedLocation:
Arima or Arouca or PiarcoExpiration date:
07/10/2025
Position Summary
Manages the Accounts Payable, Receivables, and Billings, in addition to compiling financial statements, reviewing data, month-end and year-end closings, tax returns, bank reconciliations, general ledger reviews, forecasting and budgeting. Ensures financial compliance.
Responsibilities
Education and Training
Experience
Skills & Competencies
Working Conditions & Environment
Personal Profile
Education and Training
Experience
Manages the Accounts Payable, Receivables, and Billings, in addition to compiling financial statements, reviewing data, month-end and year-end closings, tax returns, bank reconciliations, general ledger reviews, forecasting and budgeting. Ensures financial compliance.
Responsibilities
- Supervises the Finance Team, ensuring implementation of the Company’s financial and operational strategies, through motivation, effective mentorship, training and development and performance management.
- Review vendor and customer reconciliations for all companies.
- Liaise with Board of Inland Revenue (BIR) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) on tax matters.
- Review fortnightly and monthly payrolls.
- Forward monthly credit card statements to Managers; forward the payments spreadsheet to the Accounts Payable Supervisor to apply to the advance account.
- Review monthly financials including Balance Sheet reconciliations for Grand Bay Paper (GBP) & Trinidad Tissues Limited (TTL).
- Enter manual journals for GBP and TTL.
- Review bank reconciliations for all companies.
- Prepare schedules to submit to Eximbank.
- Review monthly intercompany summaries.
- Review promotions accruals spreadsheet.
- Calculate depreciation and maintain the fixed assets register.
- Assist with the preparation of monthly corporate templates for GBP and TTL.
- Assist with the preparation of the consolidated corporate template for Trinidad.
- Prepare the quarterly Group consolidated financial package.
- Prepare draft statutory financials for all 3 standalone companies.
- Prepare draft consolidated statutory financials for Grand Bay St Lucia.
- Prepare all audit schedules for the Auditors; liaise with the Auditors for all queries.
- Coordinate year-end stock count and prepare analysis.
- Prepare CSO financial reports for GBP and TTL.
- Assist with the yearly budget preparation for GBP and TTL.
- Execute all relevant responsibilities as outlined in the Roles, Responsibilities and Authorities Matrix (MT-GM-004) to ensure compliance with the Integrated Management System (IMS).
- Perform any other related duties that may be assigned.
Education and Training
- Professional Accounting Qualification such as the ACCA or equivalent.
- Capability in verbal and written communication in Spanish will be an asset.
Experience
- A minimum of seven (7) years’ progressive accounting experience with at least three (3) years at a Supervisory level.
- Experience in manufacturing operations and commercialization will be an asset.
- Demonstrated knowledge of accepted accounting practices and principles, economic principles, applicable financial laws, codes and regulations.
- Working knowledge of an accounting software.
- Working knowledge of an ERP system.
- Working knowledge of statistics.
Skills & Competencies
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite
- Strong written / verbal communication
- Ability to build and maintain positive, constructive relationships; networking
- Report writing
- Strong analytical skills
- Ability to lead and influence
- Strong conflict resolution and negotiation; mediation
- Strategic thinking & corporate vision
- Business Acumen
- Critical thinking
- Self-motivated
- Proactive
- High attention to detail; accuracy
- Prioritization & deadline oriented
- Professional
- Innovative
- Continuous Improvement
- Independent decision making
- Solution oriented / problem solving
- Strong planning & organization
- Confidential
- Ability to multi-task and work in a fast-paced environment
- Change Management
- Initiative
Working Conditions & Environment
- Extensive sitting & repetitive motions
- Extensive use of computers
- Occasional exposure to dusty environment
- Occasional exposure to noise
- May work extended or unusual hours
- Driving to external meetings or other locations when required
- Minimal lifting
Personal Profile
- A model of leadership through actions and behaviours; taking responsibility for the development of one’s team
- Operates with honesty and integrity, demonstrating high ethical and professional standards
- Generates trust and credibility in interactions with fellow team members, customers, suppliers, government agencies and the community
- Is respectful and fosters sincere collaboration
- Makes appropriate and reliable decisions
- Is determined in the face of challenges
- Has a passion for excellence
- Customer Service oriented
- Is innovative, challenges the status quo and aims to add value to the Company’s operations
- A team player
Education and Training
- Professional Accounting Qualification such as the ACCA or equivalent.
- Capability in verbal and written communication in Spanish will be an asset.
Experience
- A minimum of seven (7) years’ progressive accounting experience with at least three (3) years at a Supervisory level.
- Experience in manufacturing operations and commercialization will be an asset.
- Demonstrated knowledge of accepted accounting practices and principles, economic principles, applicable financial laws, codes and regulations.
- Working knowledge of an accounting software.
- Working knowledge of an ERP system.
- Working knowledge of statistics.
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