Vaga na Aga Khan Academy: Accounts Receivable

The Aga Khan Academy Maputo is hiring an Accounts Receivable.

Purpose

The Accounts Receivable Officer is responsible for managing all aspects of billing, collections, and reconciliation of student and staff accounts. The role ensures that financial transactions are accurate, timely, and aligned with the Academy’s Fee Policy and Finance procedures. This position plays a key role in maintaining healthy cash flow through effective credit control, debt collection, and stakeholder engagement.

Context

The AKDN:

The Aga Khan Academy Maputo, is part of the Aga Khan Development Network which is “… dedicated to improving the quality of life of those in need, mainly in Asia and Africa, irrespective of their origin, faith, or gender… We offer healthcare, education, and parental support to help people flourish.” To help fulfil the above mission, 200 schools and four academies were established by His Highness the Aga Khan and his predecessors mainly in Africa and India. Our school opened in 2013 and follows the highly successful model established by academies in Mombasa, Kenya (2003), in Hyderabad, India (2011), and in Dhaka, Bangladesh (2022).

Mozambique:

The 1998 agreement signed between the AKDN and the government of Mozambique aims “…to bring sustained benefits and improve the quality of life for the people of Mozambique.” According to the Mozambique Government and USAID (2023) “…less than half of the population finishes primary school, and of those who do finish, only 8 percent transition to secondary school… Among children who finish primary school, nearly two-thirds leave the system without basic reading, writing, and math skills”. [1]

[1] https://www.usaid.gov/mozambique/education

The Aga Khan Academy Maputo:

Our school is a non-denominational, co-educational day and residential IB World School for primary and secondary students. Located in Matola, Maputo Province, Mozambique, our Academy is dedicated towards its mission of providing educational excellence.

Our Mission is to “Identify and nurture exceptional young people from any background with the potential to become effective and ethical leaders. Admission is based on merit and not on a student’s socio-economic background nor a family’s ability to pay.”

The school is focused on the following five ‘strands’: (i) ethics, (ii) pluralism, (iii) cultures, (iv) governance and civil society, and (v) economics for development, which helps to distinguish us from other IB World Schools.

AKA Maputo is currently authorized to offer the IB PYP, MYP and DP. We provide a bilingual education in Portuguese and English for students in our kindergarten and primary school, and students in the senior school are expected to develop two first languages, English plus Portuguese, Arabic, Farsi, or French, and thus aim for a bilingual diploma. Currently around 60% of our students receive some form of financial assistance.

To fulfil our mission and vision we also plan to offer the IBCP to help more local students to enter university or to follow a career path, and where their knowledge, experience and preference for learning and assessment would be catered for better than via the IBDP. We believe that this new program will move us closer to the spirit of the agreement we have with the government of Mozambique.

We also aim to develop and leverage partnerships with key external organization such as we have with ABB (Blackbulls Football Club) to help us to enrich our programmes, develop student leaders, increase enrolment and or to support student learning and wellbeing. Currently we are working on agreements with ISCTEM University, and Neurodiversity South Africa.

We intended to promote the school as a centre for academic and sports excellence to drive enrolment both in Mozambique and the wider region. We will continue to develop our sports facilities to this end with the support of additional partners.

This focus and our third-party agreements will help us to increase paid enrolments including via potential scholarships to be paid by local companies. The post holder will be expected to help to support the strong relationships with such organizations to increase the number of such enrolments.

Main Responsibilities

• Read and implement the Fee Policy of the Finance policy & procedures.
• Ensure that the billing for students’ activities is accurate, invoices correctly are backed up and dispatched on time.
• Verify the correctness of credit notes before they are approved and subsequent posting into the ledger.
• Receipting of payments receiving and allocation to respective invoices.
• Reconcile revenue from different streams on monthly basis and address discrepancies.
• Ensure staff accounts are reconciled and payable balances sent to payroll for deduction.
• Timely reconciliation of Student accounts.
• Send monthly statements of students accounts to parents.
• Follow up collection of accounts that are outstanding beyond authorised credit period.
• Ensure that the collection target is achieved.
• Respond to queries from parents in timely manner.
• Timely circulation of Ageing and other AR reports.
• Prepare monthly Debtors review report with comments on debtors above 90 days with their status.
• Handle audit queries for both internal and external auditors.
• Other credit control matters.

Required Attributes

• Strong understanding of financial regulations, accounting principles, and reporting standards.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Strong communication and Interpersonal skills.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a keen attention to detail.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills.
• Planning and managing staff to achieve quality results.
• Proven ability to work under pressure.
• Ability to handle confidential information professionally.
• Honest and of impeccable integrity.
• Fluency in English will be an added advantage.
• At least 5 years’ experience in a similar role.

Application Procedure

Please submit a full application package to Recruitment.Maputo@agakhanacademies.org. The application package must include:

• CV.
• Concise covering letter (no longer than two pages), specifically linking how your qualifications, experiences and attributes will position you to be successful in the role.
• List of 3 references.

We are only able to contact shortlisted applicants. In the event that outstanding applicants are identified early in the search process, we reserve the right to close the process before the published deadline. For this reason, it is important that interested candidates apply as soon as possible.

Department: Finance

Reporting Line: Head of Finance and Compliance

Position Location: Maputo, Mozambique

Status: Full-time