Title: Accountant – Manufacturing,
Industry: Manufacturing,
Reporting to: Operations
Manager,
Location: Nairobi,
Our client is a well-established building materials company based in Nairobi. They seek to hire an efficient and well-experienced Accountant who will be tasked with keeping reliable financial records and overseeing the accounts operations. The jobholder will also be responsible for ensuring the integrity of accounting information by recording, verifying, consolidating, and entering transactions.
Responsibilities
- Maintain up to date financial reports to
facilitate management decisions.
- Assist in the development and implementation of
goals, policies, priorities, and procedures relating to financial
management, budget, accounting, and payroll.
- Take the lead in ensuring timely
filing/payment of statutory obligations to ensure
compliance.
- Preparation of accurate and timely weekly,
monthly, and annual management reports.
- Making projections on cash inflows and cash
outflows to ensure healthy working capital for day to day running of the
business.
- Assist in the preparation of regular financial
statements and accounts, such as profit and loss accounts.
- Forecasting and planning future spending and
profits including making recommendations on ways to reduce costs and
increase profits.
- Coordinate and deal with the company bankers and
auditors.
- Continually review the Finance manuals and policy
documents to ensure compliance with the strategy and the present challenges.
- Manage organizational cash flow and forecasting.
- Create and maintain good and effective working
relations with banks, financial institutions, statutory bodies, and
key/leading corporate clients
- Ensuring all the statutory deductions have been
remitted within the set deadlines.
- Develop and document business processes and
accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls.