Job Description
Accounting Jobs. BDO East Africa Jobs
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Role summary
Providing technical leadership in executing of Business Services and Outsourcing services to clients by planning and consulting on client engagements and ensure implementing the organizational/ departmental strategic objectives in line with BDO compliance requirements.
Key Responsibilities
Business Development, Practice Management and Compliance
- Research and identification of new business opportunities
- Drafting competitive proposals
- Conducting pre-engagement meetings with potential clients
- Drafting competitive letters of engagement
- Leading new client on-boarding and existing client re-acceptance procedures
- Preparing annual revenue projections per engagement
- Allocating engagements to team members
- Reviewing and approving timesheets to ensure assignments are completed within budgeted hours.
- Preparing and reviewing clients ‘monthly/ yearly management accounts
- Payroll processing and reviews
- Filing and reviewing payroll statutory returns
- Client Treasure management
Client Relationship Management and Engagement
- Formulate client service plans to maximise net revenues through a combination of services
- Negotiate and resolve engagement-related problems, (e.g. deliverables, timing and fees)
- Gauge client satisfaction and define the changes in services offered to increase client satisfaction
- Manage a variety of viewpoints (e.g. ,manage conflicts, tension, stress) effectively to create win-win solutions where possible
- Generate new solutions or methods to solve complex business problems (size, scope, difficulty, perhaps a multi-disciplinary solution) that set the standards as best practices
Team Leadership & Operational Support
- Review the strength and capacity of the BSO team and make recommendations in consultation with the Director in relation to talent acquisition, capacity building employee relationship areas
- Raise requisition with the associate director and HR for recruitment within the department when a position falls vacant or when the number of engagements increase
- Organize and facilitate internal departmental trainings with respect to identified gaps and business needs
- Appraise each team member’s performance and give recommendations to the associate director and partner.
- Ensure BSO leadership team is informed of developments in the department
- Plan, coordinate and conduct training necessary to develop and maintain the competence of all staff on a need-to-know basis in the department
- Any other tasks reasonably assigned by the management from time to time and within the required skill set
Skills and Competencies / Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance / Accounting / Economics or any other related field
- CA, CPA or ACCA
- 5 to 7 years of post-qualification experience
- Practical knowledge of Accounting Standards
- Well versed with various accounting software and applications used by different industry sectors and comfortable in a computerized environment
- Knowledge of tax laws
- Team leadership in managing varied client portfolios
- Experience relating with corporate executives
- Excellent communication skills – both written and oral with excellent presentation skills
- Integrity, Self-drive, Pro-activeness, and Diligence
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How to Apply
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