Senior General Accountant

"Enjoying together around good food" defines the essence of GBfoods. Today, with a turnover of around 1 billion euros and a team of 2400 employees, the Group is present in Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Russia, CIS Republics, in 30 countries in Africa and the Middle East.

Since its launch, more than 40 years ago in Africa, Jumbo has become the leading brand, strongly integrated into the local culinary heritage. Today, Jumbo is a well-loved brand reputed as a friend and a partner to women in their efforts to nurture happy and healthy families. Every year 4 billion Jumbo cubes are consumed throughout the African continent.

Gino provides a wide range of quality products to African families: tomato paste and mix, seasonings, pasta and rice among other products.

Role & Responsibilities:

We are looking for a Senior General Accounting Specialist, that will join our Finance Administration department as a supervisor of the different teams, being responsible for:

Supervising the General accounting team tasks: 

• Post the general ledger and cash accounting entries, thereby compensating according to the type of payment/collection to ensure that the accounting reflects the economic operations. The related transactions but not exhaustive are:
• Prepare and pay for the various taxes and social security charges, ensuring correct credit of the same in all managed companies.
• Ensure that all the taxes are declared and paid on time,
• Prepare and control the inter-company invoices and accounts to adjust the internal billing situation of services between companies of the GBFOODS.
• Reconcile on a monthly basis the inter- company accounts
• Review all the differences noted and liaise with Corporate team
• Post all the relating adjustments

Supervising the Accounts Payable team tasks:

• Vendor Invoices reception (different flows)
• Posting for payment: validating the invoice with the Purchase Orders
• Initiate workflows for invoice differences / inconsistences / formalities
• Invoice archive
• Follow up of open purchase orders, and vendors accounts
• Travel expenses
• Accounting for payment: supporting document validation, and posting
• Technical support to procurement department (PO treatment).
• Authorization workflows maintenance
• Control the account balances of customers/suppliers to ensure the correct status thereof.
• Handle inquiries from internal and external customers regarding the billing generated and guarantee the validity of the information.
• Cash flow management

Supervising the Treasury team tasks:

• Main Tasks include
• Banking map and banking pool
• Financial facilities management (M&A, CapEx and Working capital)
• Cash-management; daily position and forecast
• Payment management
• Online banking management
• Financial cost management and reporting
• Management of bank accounts
• Reconcile all the bank accounts on a monthly basis
• Ensure that all the transactions on the bank statements are correctly booked (accuracy and completeness)
• Ensure that all the outstanding items are investigated and duly adjusted
• Make all the cheques deposit on the bank accounts
• Make all the cash withdrawal for the petty cash replenishment
• In collaboration with Corporate team, ensure the relationship with the local bank
• Make the follow up of all the payments done

Supervising the Audit, Reporting team tasks:

• Audits and tax inspections
• Finance reporting
• Establishment of the annual financial statements