Finance and Accounts Assistant Manager

About the role

Recruit AI is recruiting, through its client, a Finance and Accounts Assistant Manager in Karachi. The role manages day-to-day financial transactions for two trading companies, keeping trade records accurate, verifying payments and reconciling bank accounts and ledgers daily. It involves complex multi-currency transactions and close collaboration with the Financial Controller and other departments; the postholder does not manage a team.

Key responsibilities

• Record every sale and purchase daily in the accounting system, attaching each transaction to the correct contracts, invoices and shipping documents.
• Verify sales invoices and supplier bills against contracts and bills of lading, track advances and review freight invoices before payment.
• Prepare and verify payment packs, check beneficiary details against bank letters and match incoming payments to buyers.
• Handle documentary trade, including letters of credit, document against payment and foreign exchange confirmations.
• Complete daily bank account reconciliation, maintain receivables and payables ledgers and reconcile futures broker statements and margin balances.
• Prepare month-end schedules (accruals, prepayments, provisions, fixed assets, mark-to-market) and support management accounts and payroll inputs.
• Manage currency conversions, prepare statutory filing documents (VAT, PAYE, corporation tax) and liaise with auditors and banks.
• Maintain KYC documentation for counterparties and financial institutions, and support trade credit insurance claims.

Required profile

• Strong experience in trading or import-export financial operations.
• Hands-on knowledge of documentary trade.
• Ability to work closely with the Financial Controller and other departments.

Required skills

• Expertise in using financial software.
• Proficiency in month-end close and management accounts preparation.