The Riara Group of Schools, a
leading institution in the education industry, is looking for a suitable
candidate to fill the position of an Accounts
Assistant Receivables.
Principal Role: To provide support in the management of student billings and collections, as well as handling parent queries.
Principal Role: To provide support in the management of student billings and collections, as well as handling parent queries.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Receive fees
payment- cash and cheques and providing receipts for all monies collected.
- Arranging for
intact banking of cash and cheques as and when required.
- Prepare daily
fees collection summary showing total fees received and total fees
forwarded for banking.
- Custody,
payment and reimbursement of petty cash as may be necessary.
- Respond to parents
questions on fee balances and maintain a log of parents complains
including emails indicating how these have been handled and submitting the
log the senior financial accountant on a daily basis.
- Updating
Debtors schedule as delegated by the Senior Financial Accountant and
submitting the report on a weekly basis.
- Complete
records on new enrolments and process in the SMS application as required
by the Senior Financial accountant.
- Verify students
transport billing and weekly boarding sheets and report variances to the
Senior financial accountant.
- Assist in
reviewing, verifying and coordination of teachers’ claims such as remedial
lessons and extra curriculum allowance claims as required.
- Provide
evidence of billing and payment of students’ optional activities to
support payment claims to respective service providers (consultants and
teachers as the case may be).
- Any other duty
that may be assigned by management.
Qualifications Knowledge and
Experience:
- A business
related degree and a registered professional Accountant.
- A minimum of 4
years working experience, 2 of which must be in a busy education
institution.
- Strong
analytical skills, attention to details, strict adherence to deadlines and
a team player.
- Excellent
communication, good public relation and demonstrable decision making
skills.
- Computer
literate and proficient in standard office computer applications.
- Knowledge of
SAP will be an added advantage.
Application Procedure:
Qualified candidates to send
applications;- updated Curriculum Vitae and Cover Letter, current and expected
remuneration and contact details of 3 referees to
recruitment@riaraschools.ac.ke with subject of the email as Accounts Assistant
Receivables by close of business on Friday 9th December 2016.
Employment Policy Statement: In line with its values and the Employment Act 2007 provisions, Riara Group of Schools is an Equal Opportunity Employer who strives to promote good and fair employment practices which are intended to achieve the most effective use of all its human resources.
Employment Policy Statement: In line with its values and the Employment Act 2007 provisions, Riara Group of Schools is an Equal Opportunity Employer who strives to promote good and fair employment practices which are intended to achieve the most effective use of all its human resources.
We eliminate all types of
unfair discrimination based on race, colour, sex, language, religion, political
or other opinion, nationality, ethnic or social origin, disability, pregnancy,
or HIV status.
