Title: Financial Analyst
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Job Type: Full Time
Salary: KES
The Company: An infant logistics company that provides customized freight services for individuals, small and large businesses. We are looking for an individual to fill the role of Financial Analyst. They will be responsible for the day to day accounting operations as well analyzing and reporting the company’s finances.
Responsibilities.
- Ensure daily updates of QuickBooks with
transactions from all sources i: e bank accounts, MPESA etc.
- Track all accounts payable, Account’s receivables
and reconcile payments made in; Cellulant, Bank, Mobile Money Deposits –
Checks, cash etc.
- Execute concierge purchase requests within 15
minutes from when notified and follow up on them to ensure to
cancellations or processing issues occur.
- Create customer invoices in a timely manner for
prompt payment of fees due, where needed.
- Create receipts for delivered items or payments.
- Review periodically to ensure that all payments
received via third party payment processors are what are being deposited
into our accounts.
- Review company’s monthly payroll and prepare
monthly payroll statutory deductions such as NSSF, NHIF and PAYE for
payment within statutory deadlines.
- Key contact on all local laws and regulations for
tax and compliance purposes.
- Preparing quarterly VAT and PAYE returns and
submitting these within statutory deadlines.
- Work with all third-party payment processors to
resolve payment issues in a prompt manner and create an internal ticket to
track until resolved.
- Overall month end closure activities, including
various reconciliations to ensure that financial reports are submitted to
the group within 8 working days of the month end.
- Ensure all utility payments, leases, loans,
insurance policies are paid on time to avoid penalties.
- Preparation of annual/monthly budget and assess
expenditure to determine where opportunities may exist for cost saving.
- Generate weekly analysis report of P$L and balance
sheet per shipment.
- Ensure all employees and contractors are paid no
later than the 25th of each month.
- Develop a system to effectively track outstanding
customers payments.
- Ensure financial projections for income are
exceeded while expenses are minimized.
- Monitoring of the prepared budgets to ensure that
spend is per budget, as well as analyzing and explaining causes of
variances / deviations, if any, from budgeted figures.
- Ensure funds are always available to facilitate
quick shipments of imports along with necessary customs and clearing fees.
- Work with other teams and management to achieve
company goal of ensuring payments are made through payment processor.
- Where necessary, work hand in hand with other
departments to purchase, update, process, ship, clear and deliver
packages.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or commerce or its
equivalent
- Must have CPA/ACCA
qualification.
- Knowledgeable in Accounting software, especially
QuickBooks/ Excel.
- Strong financial management skills.
- High level of professionalism and integrity, with
good moral character
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Superb interpersonal skills, including the ability
to quickly build rapport with both customers and suppliers.
- Able to work comfortably in a fast-paced
environment.
How to apply
Interested applicants should
write an email to careers@aquantuo.com with
the subject of the email being FINANCIAL ANALYST POSITION. Ensure that you attach
your CV and other supporting documents.