About This Role
This is a hands-on generalist accounting role within a manufacturing environment, where the accountant is expected to own the full cycle of statutory filings, cash handling, and payment processing rather than specialize in one area. Manufacturing companies in Ethiopia tend to have heavier compliance loads than service businesses—excise tax on goods, warehouse inventory documentation, and coordination with production and logistics teams all sit close to the finance function. It suits someone who is comfortable switching between tax authority deadlines, petty cash reconciliations, and warehouse paperwork in the same week.
What the Requirements Say About This Role
The 3-5 year band signals the employer wants someone who has already survived at least a few full tax cycles independently—not someone still learning how VAT and excise filings work. The mix of duties implies they are looking for breadth over depth: a candidate who can handle a tax audit request in the morning and reconcile petty cash in the afternoon. The mention of warehouse documentation suggests the role sits close to inventory and operations, so familiarity with manufacturing or trading environments will likely separate shortlisted candidates from the rest.
How to Approach This Application
Your CV should demonstrate that you have personally prepared and filed VAT, excise, and withholding tax returns—not just "assisted" with them. Quantify where possible: number of SKUs, monthly transaction volumes, or size of petty cash funds you managed. Since this is a manufacturer, any prior experience with inventory records, goods receiving documentation, or cost tracking is worth highlighting even if it was a secondary part of a previous role. Be ready to discuss how you handle competing deadlines when tax filing dates and month-end close collide.
Who This Role Suits
Best suited for an accountant with manufacturing or trading company experience who wants a stable, broad role rather than a narrow specialist track. Competition is likely moderate—this is a common profile in Addis, but candidates with genuine excise tax and warehouse exposure will stand out.
1. Job Purpose
To support accurate, timely and compliant accounting operations, statutory tax obligations, sales documentation, petty cash, payment processing, warehouse documentation and financial controls in accordance with Globe policies, Ethiopian statutory requirements and management instructions.
2. Key Duties & Responsibilities
- Statutory Compliance: Prepare, review and timely follow up VAT, Excise Tax, Withholding Tax, Income Tax, pension and other applicable statutory filings/payments; maintain supporting schedules and records.
- Petty Cash: Handle petty cash, maintain the petty-cash register, verify supporting documents, obtain proper approvals, perform periodic cash counts and reconciliations, and ensure compliance with the approved petty-cash limit.
- Payments / CPV: Prepare and process Cash/Payment Vouchers (CPV) with complete supporting documents and approvals; check supplier/customer details, amounts, taxes, bank information and proper accounting classification before posting/payment.
- Dealer Sales / Invoicing: Prepare dealer sales invoices and related documents accurately based on approved sales orders, customer/dealer details, applicable taxes, prices, chassis/engine information and authorized dispatch documentation.
- Warehouse Document Control: Follow up and verify GRN, GDN and Gate Pass documents; ensure documents are complete, properly authorized and sequentially controlled before accounting/dispatch processing.
- Chassis / Vehicle Control: Verify exact chassis/engine numbers, model and unit allocation against approved sales/dispatch documents and company internal controls; identify and report any mismatch before release or invoicing.
- Accounting Records: Record and maintain accurate transactions in the accounting system; support general ledger, customer/dealer and supplier reconciliations, bank reconciliation and month-end closing.
- Sales & Customer Ledger: Monitor dealer/customer balances, deposits and receivables; ensure deposits are properly identified, allocated and reconciled with invoices and supporting authorization documents.
- Document Filing & Audit Trail: Maintain organized physical/electronic finance documents and ensure every transaction has a complete, traceable and audit-defensible supporting file.
- Tax & Finance Reconciliation: Reconcile tax ledgers, sales invoices, withholding certificates, statutory payments and relevant accounting balances; promptly report variances or compliance risks.
- Reporting Support: Assist the Finance Manager/CFO with periodic financial reports, schedules, reconciliations, audit requests, budgeting and management analysis as required.
- Internal Controls: Follow segregation of duties, approval limits, document controls and other approved finance/Sales/Warehouse SOPs; immediately escalate irregular, unsupported or unauthorized transactions.
- Other Assigned Duties: Perform other finance/accounting and administrative duties assigned by the immediate line manager, supervisor, Finance Manager, CFO or other authorized management bodies
- 3. Key Control Expectations
- No payment, invoice or dispatch transaction should be processed without the required authorization and supporting documentation.
- Maintain accurate and timely records with clear document-to-transaction traceability.
- Protect company cash, financial information, customer/dealer information and accounting records.
- Immediately escalate suspected errors, duplicate payments, tax/compliance issues, document gaps or chassis/vehicle mismatches.
4. Minimum Qualifications & Competencies
Bachelor’s degree/diploma in Accounting, Finance or a related field.
Relevant 2 - 3 years of accounting experience; automotive, trading, manufacturing or similar operational experience is an advantage.
Working knowledge of Ethiopian tax, VAT, withholding tax, excise and pension requirements.
Good computer and accounting-system skills; strong Excel and document-control capability.
High attention to detail, integrity, confidentiality, reconciliation skills and ability to meet statutory deadlines.
Ability to coordinate effectively with Finance, Sales, Warehouse, Logistics, HR and management.
Willing to work from out side office, travel within the city or outside with the available transportation
How To Apply
All interested and qualified applicants may send a cover/application letter and updated CV with the relevant documents via www.ethiojobs.com On or before October 31, 2026.
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