Position Title: Financial Accountant
Nairobi, Kenya
2 Positions
About Bridge International Academies
Bridge International Academies is a for-profit startup company revolutionizing education across Africa with a unique business model. The company runs a large-scale network of low-cost primary schools in Kenya that significantly outperforms other primary schools in the same areas because of our “school in a box” systems.
Our schools profitably deliver this high-quality education for less than $4 per child per month, which enable the schools to cover all their costs and create a profitable central organization at scale. We have launched 37 schools in Kenya, will double in size in the next 6 months, and plan to rapidly scale the company to serve more than 1 million students across the continent.
About this position
This is a key role within the finance department whose vision is to always be a
valued business supporter providing high quality and timely financial services.Nairobi, Kenya
2 Positions
About Bridge International Academies
Bridge International Academies is a for-profit startup company revolutionizing education across Africa with a unique business model. The company runs a large-scale network of low-cost primary schools in Kenya that significantly outperforms other primary schools in the same areas because of our “school in a box” systems.
Our schools profitably deliver this high-quality education for less than $4 per child per month, which enable the schools to cover all their costs and create a profitable central organization at scale. We have launched 37 schools in Kenya, will double in size in the next 6 months, and plan to rapidly scale the company to serve more than 1 million students across the continent.
About this position
Reporting to the Chief Accountant, the job holder will play a major role in building the young but professional finance team to achieve excellence within a few months.
Working closely with finance and business team leaders, the individual will identify, review and record financial transactions into Microsoft Dynamics (Navision), measure, classify and verify the financial information and then summarize, interpret and communicate the financial information to the chief accountant for review.
Key Areas of Responsibilities:
- Understand
the business and specific operations that generate revenue, costs and
consume resources that require tracking and reporting into the Navision
system
- Review
all support documents to ascertain authenticity and record and review
financial transactions in the ledger on a daily basis
- Proper
management and updating of financial records both into the Navision
systems and in other offline tracking tools as required for day to day
communication
- Serving
as key control review points for all items entering the ledger and
ensuring high quality assurance of financial data to guarantee appropriate
allocation for analysis and reporting purposes
- Development
of tailor made reports and analysis within the Navision account schedules
and dimensions in line with standard and non routine demands of the
finance and non finance team leaders
- Observe
and monitor compliance to weekly and monthly reporting cycles to strict
deadlines
- Assisting
the auditors during interim and year-end audits to enable the smooth
running of relevant audit work and meeting of audit and statutory
reporting deadlines.
- Preparation
of monthly WHT and other tax returns and supporting work, answering tax
queries as they arise in the daily running of the business.
- Constant
monitoring of balance sheet accounts to assure integrity of balances and
appropriate analysis of return on assets among other asset measures.
- Build
appropriate tools to ensure smooth finance operations even with high
growth of transactions and finance service demand from the business
About you
- Intermediate
to advanced levels of ACCA/ CIMA or CPA with excellent academic record and
a minimum of 3 years work experience with ability to supervise and develop
a small team of professional staff
- Experience
of financial reporting and consolidation in a complex multinational
organization, or of the internal or statutory audit of such organizations
- Experience
of working with medium to high exposure of business analysis,
communication and support for large and fast growing profit oriented
organizations.
- High
integrity, IT literacy and excellent attention to detail
- People
skills and superior presentation abilities is a major requirement
- Excellent
awareness of current technical accounting and reporting requirements and
the ability to apply these requirements in a pragmatic and commercial
manner
- Ability
to plan and manage own workload and coach/mentor team members in order to
harmonize work flows and meet tight deadlines
- Excellent
spreadsheet skills and proficiency with Microsoft Dynamics (Navision)
version 2009
- Ability
to use initiative and creative thinking to anticipate issues and develop
common sense and practical solutions
- Proactive
and self motivated with excellent communication skills
- Confident
and flexible team player with great ability to work closely with non
finance team members within a multicultural environment
- A
“finisher” with the genuine drive and commitment to produce the highest
quality work and to deliver technical expertise at all times
- Passionate
about children and education in Africa.
The
closing date to submit applications will is Thursday 20th October 2011.
CVs and applications must be uploaded via the Careers page at www.bridgeinternationalacademies.com where detailed profiles are available.You can now click on this link www.kenyanvacancies.com to visit our sister website for more vacancies.