Accountant Job in Nairobi, Kenya (80K) - Hospital

Hospital Accountant 

Nairobi 

Salary: Shs 80K

Our client in the health sector is seeking to recruit Accountant to join their team. 

He/she will ensure effective handling of Payments and periodic reporting in compliance with the hospitals’ finance policy and containment of operational risk.

Key Performance Areas (KPAs)

Creditors Focus

  • Responsible for ensuring that suppliers / doctors are handled in a professional manner, the information provided is correct and suppliers / doctors are correctly referred.
  • Confer with other departments to aid in resolving creditors balance problems.
  • Supplier/doctor’s relationship management to ensure there is continued Sales Focus

Supplier / Doctors Management
  • Evaluation of creditors accounts, with reference to risk factors.
  • Ensure all applicable documentation for creditors are received from other service departments.
  • Ensure that documents for payments are completed correctly with the required authorization and signatures.
  • Preparing reports and standard statements / Ensure that monthly ageing reports are submitted to respective stakeholders.
  • Ensuring that creditor’s contracts are complete and legally correct.
  • Review and update creditors ageing report and creditors general ledger.
  • Ensuring that difference between source documents and the System are corrected and the adjustments are filed.
  • Enforce payment policies, payment lines, procedures and standards in conjunction with senior managers.
  • Achieving finance assessment targets / audit.
  • Collect all due claims
Payments
  • Compute payment schedules as per agreed timelines.
  • Prepare and pass Monthly, quarterly, Midyear Journals in the general ledger as per advice.
Core Competencies:
  • Creditors focus
  • Delivering Results and meeting creditors expectations
  • Planning & Organizing
  • Assertive
  • Interpersonal Sensitivity
  • Problem Solving and Analytic
  • Insight/understanding
  • Ability to work well under pressure
  • Friendliness
  • Quality conscious
  • Communicating orally/written
  • Teamwork
  • Reliability
  • Resilience
Qualifications
  • 3 to 4 years general payables and reconciliation experience in a busy hospital
  • Knowledge of payments and reporting principles
  • Computer literacy essential (Word, Excel)
  • Good Leadership skills
  • Bachelor Degree (Finance/Accounts Major).
  • CPA/ACA part 2
  • Excellent interpersonal relationship skills
  • Skill in analyzing and evaluating financial information.
  • Passion to work with numbers
Kindly send your application letter and CV to jobs@jantakenya.com clearly indicating ‘Hospital Accountant’ on the subject line. 


Do not attach any certificates.

Only shortlisted candidates shall be contacted.