Accountant
Job Title: Accountant
Job Code: A/PW/140704
Number Of Positions Open: 1
Location: Nairobi
Closing Date: Open Until Filled
Summary:
Job Purpose:
Assisting
with departmental operations; coordinating accounting, purchasing,
budgeting,
or payroll functions; preparing and maintaining detailed records and files.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Provides information to other departments regarding purchasing, payroll, and accounting matters.
- Supervises and directs the work of technical accounting staff involved in accounts payable, payroll and related activities.
- Prepares bank reconciliations.
- Maintains general ledger, chart of accounts, balance sheets, revenues, expenditures, capital accounts, etc.
- Reconciles special accounts and funds.
- Prepares and maintains fixed asset vehicle and equipment inventories.
- Compiles daily and monthly reports to ensure accurate reporting.
- Performs various financial and budgetary functions such as balancing accounts receivable, posting revenues and expenditures.
- Assists with the preparation of the annual budget.
- Conducts internal operational audit studies for various functions, including reporting of procedural analysis and recommended improvements.
- Assists independent auditors with the review of the financial records.
- Prepares a variety of financial reports, responds to inquiries from other officials.
- Performs related tasks as required.
Experience:
- 3 years’ relevant working experience
Skills and Certification:
- Qualified Accountant CPA (K) (Preferred)
- Thorough knowledge of the theory, principles and practices of accounting and budgeting
- Thorough knowledge of modern practices and of standard office and accounting equipment.
- General knowledge of audit practices.
- Ability to prepare financial reports.
- Ability to analyze and evaluate financial systems.
- Ability to exercise sound judgment in evaluating situations and in making decisions.
- Ability to plan, organizes, and prioritizes tasks in order to complete assignments in a timely manner and meet deadlines.
- Ability to communicate technical ideas effectively, both orally and in writing.
- Ability to effectively and discreetly handle confidential information.
- Ability to operate a personal computer using program applications appropriate to assigned duties and responsibilities.
- Ability to operate standard office equipment.
- Ability to quickly learn and put to use new skills and knowledge brought about by rapidly changing information and/or technology.
- Ability to interact professionally and cooperatively and establish and maintain effective working relationships with coworkers, officials, public and private representatives, and the general public
How to Apply:
Interested
candidates holding the necessary requirements, good performance and / or
references are encouraged to apply with detailed CV’s, inclusive of names and
contacts of 3 referees, current telephone number and email address by scrolling
down and clicking on: Accountant
