Vacancy Announcement: School
Accountant
(1 Position)
Job Purpose: Responsible
for providing overall leadership and oversight with respect all accounting and
financial matters of the Company including planning, budgeting and forecasting,
statutory compliance, tax, accounting and reporting.
The job holder will also be
responsible for general administration duties in the office.
Responsibilities
- Develop and
install sound accounting and financial management including procurement
systems and procedures aimed at improving financial performance and
effective control and custody of the company’s assets.
- Ensure that
proper books of accounts are maintained to satisfy legal and internal
requirements
- Provide timely
and accurate monthly financial and accounting information to management
- Proper cash
flow forecast and management ensuring timely and full debt collection
- Treasury/bank
reconciliation
- Prepare
year-end financial accounts and ensure that the year-end audit exercise
progresses smoothly
- Develop,
enhance and implement sound accounting and operating procedures including
sound internal controls and ensure adherence to company policies.
- Safe custody
of the cash collections and ensuring the banking is timely done
- Ensure
compliance with tax, financial and other reporting and statutory
requirements
- Prepare and
compile company budgets and control costs in line with the approved
budgets
- Provide
leadership to the team and manage performance
- Planning,
assigning, directing and reviewing of accounts teams reports and
operations
- Provide
advisory opinion and guidance on investment opportunities and decisions
- Addressing
complaints from external parties e.g. suppliers and customers
- Oversee
payroll processing, computations and integrity making timely adjustments
and payment of statutory obligations (NHIF,NSSF, PAYE and HELB) in
compliance with the law.
- Review, investigate
and correct errors and inconsistencies in financial entries, documents and
reports
- Update fixed
assets and prepayment schedules. Ensure timely payment of insurance,
maintenance and repair of all company assets and economic disposal of the
same.
- Manage all
contracted suppliers of the company’s and oversee the effective running of
the transport service/program
- Acting
/holding brief for management when assigned
- Any other
duties that may be assigned
Minimum required
qualifications & experience
- Bachelor’s
degree in Accounting
- CPA (K) or its
equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Proficiency in
QuickBooks, Microsoft Excel and any other Accounting packages.
- Four years’
accounting experience in a school environment is highly desirable.
- Experience
managing financial budgets
- Strong
understanding of the Kenyan tax laws
Skills and
Competencies
- Leadership
skills
- Team work,
team development and ability to hold people accountable
- Initiative and
creativity
- Excellent
communication skills
- Customer orientation
- Planning and
organizing
- Negotiation
and diplomacy skills
Performance Dimensions / Key
Result Areas
- Risk
Management
- Cash flow
Management
- Bank
reconciliation
- Financial
reporting and P&L responsibility
- Payroll
processing and statutory compliance
- Policy
development and implementation
- Debt
collection
Application process
Please make your application throughhr@tendercarejunioracademy.com by close of business 14th June 2017.
Please make your application throughhr@tendercarejunioracademy.com by close of business 14th June 2017.