Financial Controller
To safeguard the Company’s money and
other assets as well as mitigate financial risks and liabilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Supervise the Finance Department.
- Review and approve vouchers – petty cash,
cheque payments, suppliers, internal transfers.
- Authorize payments – sign cheques and funds
transfer instructions to company’s bankers.
- Act as the company’s interface with bankers
and the liaison on administrative matters.
- Confirm manually initiated funds transfers,
- Authorize purchases ( signing LPOs)
- Administer and approve staff leave requests
- Implement/enforce management directives
regarding staff/admin matters for the team you supervise
- Manage petty cash floats (various currencies)
for the company and for the various departments
- Review returns and authorize re-imbursements.
- Liaise with other heads of departments and
senior management on day to day issues, e.g. authorization/allocation of
expenses, etc.
- Ensure that the general ledger accounts and
disbursements files are regularly monitored and fully explained at the end
of the month.
- Download monthly results per cost centre from
the Financial Reporting System and investigate variations from budgeted
amounts.
- Support heads of departments (ops) in
generating their monthly statistics and expense analysis.
- Complete the consolidation package for
purposes of reporting to Head office.
- Involvement in the annual budget preparation
process.
- Monitor capital investment per cost centre to
ensure it is in line with budgeted amounts.
- Facilitate recruitment of staff in the
department by participating in interviews together with HR Manager,
drafting job descriptions and evaluation of staff performance during
probation period.
- Give the necessary support to the external
auditors to facilitate finalization of the year-end financial statements.
- Control the tax file for the company vis a vis
records maintained by the company’s tax consultants and the Kenya Revenue
Authority, and to follow up on VAT and corporation tax issues with the
company’s tax consultants.
- Ensure conformity with tax regulations by
remitting statutory deductions within the stipulated time limits, ensuring
the necessary amounts are withheld where necessary and remitted to the tax
authorities.
Qualifications
- B-Comm Degree
- CPA (K)
- Minimum 5 years
- Analytical skills
- Management
- Communication
- Negotiation
- Computer literacy
Qualified candidates to send their
CVs to cvs@careerdirections.co.ke
