Lutheran World Federation/Department for World Service Kenya is seeking to recruit a Kenyan national for the following position, to be based in Kakuma Refugee camp.
Senior Accountant
He/She will be responsible for offering financial services assigned. He/she will work to improve the proper operations, management and improvement of the Finance department.
The incumbent will report directly to the Finance Officer, while working closely on a daily basis in collaboration with other sectors of LWF.
Key Points of Communication: Finance Officer, Area Coordinator, Deputy Project Coordinator, Project Coordinator-Turkana and the Kakuma Senior Program Officers
Duties and Responsibilities
Senior Accountant
He/She will be responsible for offering financial services assigned. He/she will work to improve the proper operations, management and improvement of the Finance department.
The incumbent will report directly to the Finance Officer, while working closely on a daily basis in collaboration with other sectors of LWF.
Key Points of Communication: Finance Officer, Area Coordinator, Deputy Project Coordinator, Project Coordinator-Turkana and the Kakuma Senior Program Officers
Duties and Responsibilities
- Writing of cheques, maintain cheque register and dispatch cheques to vendors.
- Maintaining the bank & cash books
- Timely writing of statutory payroll deduction cheques & reconciliation of Payroll accounts.
- Preparation of bank reconciliations.
- Cash withdrawals from the banks and verification of Petty cash counts
- Preparation monthly payroll journals & reconciliation
- Reconciliation of various Balance sheet accounts
- Reconciliation & invoice compound debtors for security, water maintenance, salaries & wages and fuel.
- Verification of data entries into ACCPAC.
- To conduct random physical stock counts at the stores & overseeing the annual physical stock counts
- Proper filling of all documents pertaining to the above tasks.
- Any other duties as may be assigned by the Finance Officer.
Relevant Experience
- Possess at least CPA II.
- At least three (3) years working experience in a busy finance office, NGO experience is an added advantage.
- Good computer skills – MS word and Excel is a must, and knowledge on ACCPAC added advantage;
Personal Attributes
- Strong interpersonal and a good team player.
- High level of integrity, commitment and professional responsibility.
- Ability to tolerate cultural, educational and religious diversity in the work place.
- Excellent communication, organization and presentation skills.
- Good analytical and problem solving skills.
- Ability to work independently with guidelines and clear expectations.
Applications and detailed CV must include email address and telephone contacts of 3 referees, one of whom must be your supervisor in your current/former employment.
They should reach the undersigned by close of business on 1st October, 2010:
C/o Office Administrator,
P.O. Box 40870, GPO-00100,
Nairobi, Kenya
Or e-mail to: hr@lwfkenya.org
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted,
For more details, visit our website www.lwf-kenya.org
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