Sovereign Mauritius is looking to recruit a Client Accounts Manager to form part of their team.
Duties and responsibilities:
- Provide final sign-off on all accounts and accounting work of the department.
- Help when required to manage unsatisfied clients in a professional and timely manner to resolve any issues.
- Lead and managed a team of client accountants daily to deliver the objectives of the company.
- Ensure that the client accountants develop and maintain a good synergy with the other departments.
- Ensure that your allocated team meet internal and statutory deadlines.
- Ensure that the client accountants always use and update the company management solutions (VP).
- Hold recurrent portfolio update meetings and identify any anomalies and act accordingly to remedy same.
- Identify risks associated to client accounting and ensure proper framework to manage those risks.
- Design and/or redesign departmental procedures to ensure teams/individual objectives are met.
- Plan and manage for resources (Team composition, leaves and allocation of jobs and anything alike).
- Identify weaknesses and strength of team members then design a plan for improvement and progression.
- Conduct any appraisal reviews for departments and ensure that staff are being fairly treated and report any matters to your line manager.
- Ensure that the department is operating effectively and efficiently and using IT as a leverage.
- Identify opportunities to streamline the processes considering the use of the Shared Services Company of the group.
- Ensure that the department understands the buy-in vision, mission, and values of Sovereign in delivering quality services to the end client.
- Report to your reporting line in a consistent and clear manner.
- Provide professional guidance and advice to client accountants, colleagues and clients for accounting and tax queries.
- Acquire a good knowledge of Sovereign products and services.
- Provide client accounting report and data to the regulators and other departments as required.
- Perform any cognate duties as assigned by the line manager.
Profile:
- ACCA qualified.
- Experience in Accounting and taxer for global business companies and Trust.
- Strong organisational skills
- Strong analytical skills.
- Attention to detail.
- Deadline orientated and good working under pressure.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Self-motivated and reliable.
- Able to lead a team of Client Accountant.
- Experience in working with Viewpoint would be an advantage, although full training will be provided