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Senior Finance Officer

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Organization
Setaragan Mutahed (SM)
Location
Kabul, Afghanistan
Opportunity type
job
Salary
As Per Company Scale
Education
Bachelor
Experience
2-3 years
Deadline
November 10, 2026
Published
October 12, 2026
Vacancy reference
SM-2026-019
Available positions
1
Work schedule
Full Time
Contract type
Permanent
Contract duration
Open Ended
Contract extension
Yes
Probation period
Three Months
Eligible gender
Male
Eligible nationality
National
Languages
Dari, English, Pashto
Professional fields
Accounting/Finance, Accounting, Finance, Financial Accounting, Financial Reporting, Financial Planning
Travel required
Yes
Application method
Platform

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Deadline: November 10, 2026

Quick summary

This role ensures absolute integrity, transparency, and accuracy across all expenditure workflows. The ideal candidate maintains tight compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and the legal frameworks mandated by the Afghanistan Ministry of Finance (MoF). Operating within a high-volume telecom distribution environment, this position focuses on ledger controls, fixed asset accounting, comprehensive month-end closures, and interdepartmental coordination. Non-Negotiable Criteria Education: Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, or a closely related field. Experience & Software: At least 3 years of professional experience strictly focused on Accounts Payable workflows, expense accounting, and fixed asset ledgers. Must possess intermediate-to-advanced operational skills in QuickBooks Enterprise. Alternative Skill Track: A Bachelor’s degree combined with professional accounting credentials (holding a status of ACCA passed all papers) alongside the mandatory 3 years of accounts payable/expense tracking experience. Financial Recording & IFRS Standards Compliance Record complex OPEX, Administrative, and General Expenses in absolute alignment with IFRS standards. Ensure all expenses are mapped cleanly to their appropriate classes and ledger segments in the accounting system to protect Profit and Loss (P&L) reporting integrity at month-end. Interested and qualified national candidates are invited to click Apply Now. submit their applications, including a cover letter and an updated CV, no later than  10 Nov 2026. Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview.

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Overview

This role ensures absolute integrity, transparency, and accuracy across all expenditure workflows. The ideal candidate maintains tight compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and the legal frameworks mandated by the Afghanistan Ministry of Finance (MoF). Operating within a high-volume telecom distribution environment, this position focuses on ledger controls, fixed asset accounting, comprehensive month-end closures, and interdepartmental coordination.

Requirements

Non-Negotiable Criteria

Education: Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, or a closely related field.

Experience & Software: At least 3 years of professional experience strictly focused on Accounts Payable workflows, expense accounting, and fixed asset ledgers. Must possess intermediate-to-advanced operational skills in QuickBooks Enterprise.

Alternative Skill Track: A Bachelor’s degree combined with professional accounting credentials (holding a status of ACCA passed all papers) alongside the mandatory 3 years of accounts payable/expense tracking experience.

Local Procurement Knowledge: Proven operational understanding of Kabul-based vendors, local commercial supply chains, and telecommunications procurement channels.

Sector Familiarity: Solid operational comprehension of the Telecom business landscape and distribution networks in Afghanistan.

Technical & Soft Skill Requirements

Software Toolset: Practical proficiency with ERP ecosystems (Odoo) or QuickBooks Enterprise , Microsoft Excel, and the Office 365 suite.

Resilience & Agility: Proven capacity to manage an intensive workload, maintain absolute accounting precision under operational pressure, and navigate strict corporate timelines.

Supervisory Leadership: Strong supervisory and leadership skills to train, govern, and audit the output of junior accounting clerks into a highly disciplined, high-accuracy transactional unit.

Communication Matrix: Excellent interdepartmental communication and presentation capabilities, with basic competencies in formal financial report writing.

Responsibilities

  • Financial Recording & IFRS Standards Compliance

Record complex OPEX, Administrative, and General Expenses in absolute alignment with IFRS standards.

Ensure all expenses are mapped cleanly to their appropriate classes and ledger segments in the accounting system to protect Profit and Loss (P&L) reporting integrity at month-end.

Build, maintain, and supervise a transparent, centralized Vendor Center, ensuring up-to-date and compliant profiles for all local and national suppliers.

  • Voucher Controls & Document Retention Lifecycle

Enforce an aggressive, airtight voucher-based system using standardized serial numbering sequences across both soft software databases and physical hard-copy archives.

Take full ownership of document completeness by verifying all necessary cross-departmental approvals and signatures before entering a transaction.

Exercise rigorous data verification to ensure all necessary supporting documents (Purchase Requests, Bid Summaries, Quotations, and Advance Request Forms) are present to eliminate duplicate or fraudulent payouts.

  • Fixed Assets & Depreciation Management

Record and control all corporate Fixed Asset purchases in their proper ledger accounts, explicitly matching the classification norms dictated by the Ministry of Finance (MoF).

Apply, monitor, and process monthly depreciation transactions in strict compliance with the depreciation schedules of the MoF.

  • Cash Logistics, Procurement Support & Cost Control

Supervise and run the daily cash count and auditing mechanisms for the petty cash accounts dedicated to operational expenses.

Audit and verify prices for office supplies and fixed assets, providing data-backed cost analyses to support the procurement team in driving cost-saving decisions.

Supervise, track, and monitor cross-franchise monthly operational expenditures, utilizing specialized software class-tracking tools and custom expense summary sheets.

  • Compliance, Taxation & Interdepartmental Coordination

Coordinate closely with the Tax and Compliance units to accurately compute and apply Withholding Taxes (WHT) and corporate intercompany taxes across company subsidiaries.

Collaborate directly with the Internal Audit team, systematically extracting financial ledger data and generating analytics to satisfy compliance and verification reviews.

  • Month-End Closing, Reporting & Budgeting

Execute a rigorous month-end adjustment protocol, including the processing of prepaid expenses, advances, accruals, and monthly rental adjustments to ensure an airtight closing of the P&L ledger.

Coordinate directly with the Reconciliation, Compliance & Closing Unit during period-end closures, providing complete system ledgers and physical voucher files for verification loops.

Extract detailed expenditure datasets from the finance system to build and present analytical P&L ratio insight reports for the Senior Finance Manager.

Partner with senior managers to develop data-driven historical frameworks for annual budget preparation targeting OPEX and administrative costs.

How to apply

Interested and qualified national candidates are invited to click Apply Now. submit their applications, including a cover letter and an updated CV, no later than 10 Nov 2026. Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Setaragan Mutahed Company provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without discrimination based on ethnicity, gender, religion, disability, age, or any other protected status.

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