African Conservation Centre is a
non-governmental organization dedicated to the development of Africa
Conservation excellence with a focus on conservation of biodiversity
eco-systems landscapes while ensuring sustainable benefits to local livelihoods
of host communities.
Accountant
Job Purpose: Reporting to the Finance and Administration Manager, the accountant shall be responsible for executing systems, procedures and controls of the accounting function covering the accounting policies, procedures and control, manner of record maintenance and reporting requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure the production of monthly, quarterly,
semi-annual and annual management accounts
- Consolidate and share financial reports and
audited annual financial statements
- Prepare financial reports e.g. monthly,
Quarterly, midyear and annual reports.
- Review/Perform monthly bank reconciliations
and manage ACC bank accounts.
- Evaluate receipts and expenditure forms, LPO
for the purpose of ensuring compliance to policies
- Preparation of audit files, maintenance of
audit trail and provide information to financial auditors
- Supervise the work of accounts
assistant(s)/officers
- Data entry, coding and posting of data in
payment vouchers to the accounting system to update the general ledger.
- Oversee Creditors/suppliers payment and
preparation of a creditors report by update of the system & provision
of a manual project allocation to reconcile the two.
- Ensure preparation of a schedule of debtors
and generation of an outstanding imprest debtors report.
- Reconciliation of book balances with
accounts and system cashbooks with actual bank balances, debtors and
imprest outstanding, individual imprest debtors accounts with personal
statements to determine outstanding balances, creditors schedule with
suppliers’ statements, determination of outstanding balances
- Reviewing of all imprest surrender documents
provided by staff from the field and assessing, testing and judging the
allowability, allocability and reasonability of different expenses
incurred so as to ensure they concur with the donors financing agreement.
- Ensuring that all support documents and back
up evidence provided by staff are bonafide and adequate as per the donors
financing agreement.
Required Qualifications
- Possess a Bachelor of Commerce degree in
Accounting
- Must have a CPA (II) Sec 4.
- Proficiency accounting software.
- Minimum 2 years’ experience in a busy audit
firm
- Good Interpersonal skills i.e. influencing,
communication and negotiation skills.
- Problem solving and Analytical skills
How to Apply: Qualified candidates are invited to email their
application indicating current salary, a detailed cv, names of three referees
by 17th July 2015 to acc@acc.or.ke
Only short listed candidates will be
contacted.