Project Accountant

Responsibilities:

• CapEx Governance: Establish and maintain robust financial control frameworks for the entire project budget, tracking actual expenditures against approved capital allocations.
• Vendor & Cash Flow Logistics: Manage the financial pipeline for international OEMs and local contractors; oversee invoice verifications, multi-currency payments, and tax retentions (WHT, VAT).
• Asset Capitalization: Create a detailed Fixed Asset Register (FAR), tracking components from Work-in-Progress (WIP) status to formal capitalization as the plant goes live.
• Audit & Compliance: Ensure all project expenditures comply with IFRS standards, corporate governance manuals, and local statutory requirements.
• Strategic Reporting: Provide the Project Director and Group CFO through the Group Head of Financial Planning & Analysis with real-time financial reporting, burn-rate metrics, and cash flow forecasts.
• Cost Tracking & Financial Monitoring: Maintain real-time tracking of all project costs, commitments, and actuals against budget forecasts.
• Tax Compliance & Statutory Deductions: Ensure proper application and remittance of WHT, VAT, and other statutory obligations on project transactions.
• Stakeholder Financial Liaison: Act as the financial interface between project teams, contractors , , and corporate finance departments.
• Integrated Management System: Documents, implements, and maintains the requirements of the Quality, Food Safety, Environment, Health, and Safety management systems.

Requirements:

• A minimum of a degree in accounting or a related discipline.
• Professional certification (ICAN, ACCA) is required
• Minimum of 8 years of project accounting, cost control, or fixed asset accounting experience—ideally within manufacturing or capital projects.
• A financially meticulous professional with a firm grasp of capital project structures, multi-currency transactions, and enterprise ERP systems.

Key KPIs:

• Accuracy and Timeliness of Month-End CapEx Reporting and Variance
• Zero Audit Penalties on Project-Related Statutory Tax Filings.
• Timely and Clean Capitalization of Completed Assets into the Corporate Fixed Asset Register.

Competencies Profile:

• Technical Competencies
• Generic Competencies
• IAS 16 Asset Capitalization Governance & Compliance Systemic Critical Thinking.
• Multi-Currency Project Accounting & Hedging Interactivity Team Management
• Industrial Tax Compliance Mechanics (WHT/VAT execution) Strategic & Analytical Thinking
• Advanced Proficiency in SAP FICO (Financial Accounting and Controlling) and Excel Financial Modeling
• Communication
• Project Cost Control & Financial Monitoring Stakeholder Management
• CapEx Budgeting, Forecasting & Variance Analysis Attention to Detail & Accuracy
• Project Cash Flow Planning & Liquidity
• Management Detail Orientation
• ERP Systems Proficiency
• IFRS-Compliant Financial Reporting & Project Accounting Standards