Position: Branch Accountant
Department: Finance
Reports To: Senior Accountant
Nature and Scope of the Position
The Branch Accountant is responsible for finance duties in the Retail centers. They should be able to work with minimal supervision and be proactive.
Duties
Department: Finance
Reports To: Senior Accountant
Nature and Scope of the Position
The Branch Accountant is responsible for finance duties in the Retail centers. They should be able to work with minimal supervision and be proactive.
Duties
- Overall in charge of Account Assistants in 4 branches.
- Petty cash disbursements, timely accounting and re-imbursement and update of all relevant expenses.
- Management of stocks in the branches with monthly stock takes and variance analysis and action thereof.
- Monitoring of branch performance and weekly reports of revenues versus the sales targets.
- Timely billing and reconciliation of weekly sales to the respective retail centers account.
- Accurate and timely posting in the Accounting system and reconciliation of all branch operations. (E.g. sales, purchases, expenses and bankings.)
- Quarterly audits for all retail centers
- Ensuring stringent adherence to the Internal Control Systems and the ISO procedures.
- Daily customer receipts, bankings and posting in the accounting system.
- Customers credit applications due diligence and filing for all the branches in liaison with the Accountant in charge of accounts receivables.
- Records management to ensure proper filing, confidentiality and compliance.
- Revenue assurance of all sales in the branches to ensure optimum profitability of the branches.
- Supplier relationship management for all the branches.
- To undertake other duties as and when requested.
Job Specification
Academic Qualifications
Essential
Academic Qualifications
Essential
- CPA (K) with 2 Years Experience in ICT Industry OR
- B.Com Accounting/Finance Option with 2 Years Experience.
Desired
- Bcom Finance/Accounting and CPA (K)
- 2 Years Experience
Experience
- 2 years in Accounting in ICT industry
Work related skills
- Good organizational skills
- Aggressive and Result Oriented
- Able to meet set target on a monthly basis
- Able to meet deadlines
- Good leadership qualities
- Accuracy
Personal attributes
- Positive ‘Can Do’ Attitude.
- Ability to work under pressure
- Trustworthy
- Team player
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Strong customer relation skills
Complexity and difficulty of the work
- A demanding job that requires high level of accuracy and integrity
Successful performance standards
- To ensure strong adherence of internal control systems.
- To send reports on time by 9am of every Monday.
- To update relevant transitions real time and maintenance of complete and accurate records .
- To work as a team with the senior accountant to meet all the KPAs of finance department.
The jobholder may be requested to perform job-related tasks other than those stated in this description.
The jobholder is expected to perform in a manner consistent with the values and philosophy of “XRX Technologies Limited”
The applications should be sent to careers@xrxtechnologies.co.ke.
Closing date is 1st July 2011
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