Job Title: Accountant
Reports to: Finance Manager
Industry: Co-operative society
Location: Thika
Salary: 30k – 35k
Our client is a Housing Co-operative Society that endeavors to address the housing challenges by acquiring land at low negotiated prices and then pass on the subsidized costs to its members with the aim of providing them with accommodation and livelihood at a reasonable price.
Our client is a Housing Co-operative Society that endeavors to address the housing challenges by acquiring land at low negotiated prices and then pass on the subsidized costs to its members with the aim of providing them with accommodation and livelihood at a reasonable price.
Description: The incumbent will be identifying, recording, measuring, classifying, verifying, summarizing, interpreting and communicating financial information including assets, liabilities, income and expenditures.
Duties and Responsibilities
- To produce timely and accurate financial
reports
- To make timely statutory returns to the
exchequer
- Adequate implementation of effective financial
controls.
- Strict adherence to the financial budget, as
well as budgeting and budgetary controls.
- Compliance with international financial
standards (IFS)
- Monitor Cash and Bank balances and doing cash
flow projections.
- Invoicing and sending out debtors reminder
notes/statements
- Maintaining of Debtors and Creditors ledgers
and carrying out reconciliations of the same.
- Extract management and final accounts /
liaising with external auditors
- Management of long term liabilities e.g. hire
purchase obligations, loan etc
- Maintenance of a Fixed Assets Register
- Liaise with bank officials, insurance and
auditors
- Updating Finance Manager on matters pertaining
to finance functions.
- Petty cash management – issuing and
reconciliation
- Carry out analysis of payment requests and
reconcile them with approved documentation including purchase orders and
contracts.
- Process payments to service providers and
remit statutory deduction to relevant authorities in accordance with
operating guidelines.
- Generating summary of LPO in the financial
management system on monthly basis, prepare reports on outstanding
payments / obligations and extract periodic commitment control Reports.
- Updating expenditure control cards for
contractual payments and ensure no contract over-runs
- Preparing staff payroll and remit statutory
deductions to the relevant authorities.
- Reviewing reimbursement claims submitted from
the projects components and project implementation unit and process
payment in compliance with operational and financial procedures.
- Maintains customer confidence and protects
operations by keeping financial information confidential.
Qualifications, Experience &
Personal Attributes
- Degree or Diploma preferably in FINANCE or any
other related field
- CPA Section 6
- At least TWO years relevant experience
- Excellent computer proficiency (MS Office –
Word, Excel and Outlook)
- Excellent verbal and written communication
skills, including ability to effectively communicate with internal and
external customers
- Must be able to work under pressure and meet
deadlines, while maintaining a positive attitude and providing exemplary
customer service
- Ability to work independently and to carry out
assignments to completion within parameters of instructions given,
prescribed routines, and standard accepted practices
- Maintaining a Good corporate image
- Comprehensive weekly reporting to management
- Teamwork with sales team
- Good time management and work plan
How to Apply
If you are up to the challenge,
posses the necessary qualification and experience, please send your CV only
quoting the job title on the email subject (Accountant 30 - 35K) to
vacancies@corporatestaffing.co.ke before Friday 3rd July, 2015
Kindly indicate current/last salary on your CV
N.B: We do not charge any fee for receiving your CV or for interviewing
Only candidates short-listed for interview will be contacted.
