Management Accountant
Department: Finance
Reports to: Finance Manager
Job Location: Eldoret
/ Nyeri / Kisii
Education and experience:
- Bachelor degree in Accounting, Business Administration or similar
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
- Practical experience of working with an ERP
- Hands on experience in manufacturing environment
- Five years’ experience in FMCG or busy commercial environment
- Experience in a Group environment will give a distinct advantage
Main Responsibilities:
- Prepare monthly management accounts
- Carry out monthly variance analysis on management accounts
- Prepare reconciliation of revenues to volumes and prepare KO reports to financial reports
- Value chain management, recommendations on margins, discounts and retiring of non- profitable SKUs
- Co-ordinate physical stock counts (daily, monthly, annual etc)
- Work with costing tools and analyzing full production costs against standards
- Carry out detailed analysis on factory KPIs, reconciling to the general ledger highlight anomalies and opportunities and propose counter measures.
- Assist in the budgeting and forecasting process by coordinating and consolidate information from different sources.
- Decision support – prepare business case, payback follow up and budget versus actual follow up
- Ensure compliance with Company policies, procedures, guidelines and chart of authority
- Support business process improvement initiatives through benchmarking
- Support implementation of ERP
- Assist in preparation of board papers and ad hoc reports for the board
Key Skills and Competencies:
- Thorough accounting and tax knowledge
- Excellent analytical and modeling skills
- High level of accuracy and attention to detail
- Ability to organize and prioritize work in a high pressure environment
- Good communication skills (oral and writing)
- Highly proficient in MS office (Excel, Power point)
Application procedure:
Applicants should email
their applications attaching a detailed curriculum vitae and a letter
indicating why they are interested in and qualified for the position and the
names of three referees who can provide confidential assessment of their
capabilities to a Search Committee.
All communications
relating to applications for this position should be addressed to email
address: therecexpert@gmail.com
Applications should be
received by 25th July 2014.
Only shortlisted
candidates will be contacted.
On the subject matter of
the email please indicate the position you are applying for.
