Job description:
A Leading Shipping/Liners company in Iraq is currently hiring Chief Accountant/Finance Manager.
Job Responsibilities:
- Ensures business processes, administration, and financial management.
- Maintains accounting system.
- Manages the Accounting team
- Leads planning and forecasting activities with business partners to achieve business and company goals.
- Reviews financial reports.
- Prepares financial forecasts.
- Monitors financial details to ensure legal compliance.
- Analyzes revenue, expenses, cash flows, and balance sheets.
- Assists management to make financial decisions.
- Investigates means to improve profitability.
- Reviews and processes payments of the company.
- Maintains an accurate filing and record keeping system for all financial statements and company documents.
- Participates in the execution of changes to procedures, policies, and systems to facilitate expansion, compliance, and scaling of the business.
- Handle daily accounting operation (Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables, P&L, and Balance Sheets)
- Prepare and handle a full set of import/export documents incl. opening L/C, checking L/C workability, and consolidating relevant banking documents.
- Coordinate with related parties (forwarder/distributor) for importation, customs clearance, and any operational issues
- General Business Knowledge of containers and its movement, trade lanes, port, harbor, pricing, customs and immigration activities and procedures, and necessary legal requirements conducting business
- Coordinate with the shipping companies for inbound and outbound shipments.
Requirements:
Bachelor degree/ Diploma in Accounting, Finance or any related field
5 years of working experience in Accounting and Shipping (MUST)
Experience of using MS excel, word
Good command of both written and spoken in English
Independent, self-initiative, strong sense of responsibilities, attentive to details and willing to work under pressure.
Job Type: Full-time
Ability to commute/relocate: Iraq
