Chief Accountant

Astana 5/2

Accountabilities and Responsibilities:

Supervise and allocate the work of the Accountancy Section to ensure that all tasks are completed within prescribed timelines;

Ensure the Treasury and Banking functions operate in accordance with legislative, regulatory and organisational requirements;

Managing, control and timely reconciliation of Company’s Loan and Equity financing;

Reliable accounting of cost estimates, sales and services, economically relevant report calculations of product/service cost structure;

Periodic Review and reconciliation of accounts (payables, receivables, fixed assets capitalisation, write-offs)

Manage of Accounting Software system for Company in line with internal procedures and ROK legislation

Ensure safeguarding and archiving of accounting documents as per ROK legislation requirements;

Compliance with the set rules inventories, fixed assets, settlements and payments obligations;

Preparation of financial statements and reports required for internal and external purposes;

Budgets, forecast, business plans, cost estimations in line with the company policies and procedures;

Preparation of Work Program, Budget and Business Plan for further approval;

Management of audits (Internal and external);

Compliance with applicable legislation requirements (Tax, Statistical, National Banks, Investment Committee etc).

Qualifications & Experience:

• The job holder must have:
• Higher education in finance or accounting.
• Minimum 5 years related experience in petroleum industry, including working knowledge of Kazakh tax law.
• Accounting Professional Certification in accordance with RoK legislation.

Required Competencies and Skills:

• Excellent verbal and written working knowledge of English
• Working knowledge of computerized accounting system
• Ability to liaise effectively with local and fiscal authorities
• Knowledge of general RoK appliable legislation
• Accuracy, Team leader skills
• Capability to work with PC, MS office programs.