Vacancy: Finance Intern
Location: Mlolongo
Starting date: Immediately
Job Description
Kilimall is Kenya’s largest online shopping mall. It was launched in July 2014 with the mission of becoming No.1 E-commerce platform in Africa, and has sites strategically distributed in the three countries namely: Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria.
Kilimall serves a retail-customer
base that continues to grow exponentially, offering products that span various
categories designed to ensure optimum levels of convenience and customer
satisfaction with the retail process; order delivery-tracking, dedicated
customer service support and many other premium services.
We invite you to be part of our team by submitting your application to the following role based in
Mlolongo.
A financial
intern plays a crucial role in assisting in the day to day activities of
the accounting and finance department. The role comprises a wide range of
finance functions that need to be executed in an effective manner to
support the smooth operation of the department. This job is
mostly supportive in nature and it is responsible for carrying out the accounting
duties, accurately by applying various financing/accounting
principles.
Responsibilities
- To assist in making financial transactions,
accounts payable, accounts
receivables,vouchers, refunds, , by thoroughly checking and correcting the accounting and other relevant financial
records
- To provide support in preparing the financial
reports in the accounting and finance
systemas per the instructions received from the seniors
- To maintain, update, and retrieve the financial
information from the financial database andsystem
- Toassist in the preparation of receipts and vouchers
and their relevant formats, so that the financial details can be entered correctly in the accounting system
- Toapply the basic accounting principles, knowledge, and techniques to analyse the variances, and perform routine finance activities
- To perform accounting computations and
calculations accurately, and try to identify ifthere are
discrepancies, and if there are
any errors, try to resolve them
Qualifications
- The ideal candidate should have good
administrative and clerical skills, and should be ableto follow
instructions as given. He/she should be a good team player and should be
able to work on deadline driven
- Proficiency in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint is
essential as the candidate will need to
handlehuge data related to finance.
- The ideal candidate should be able to prioritize
and organize your work to ensure that it iscompletely within the given
time limit and have in depth knowledge of book keeping and accounting
procedures along with high degree of concentration and an ability to
identify accounting
- A higher diploma or a bachelor’s degree from an
accredited university supported
byknowledge in accounting or finance would be sufficient to be eligible for this
- Good math and computation skills to be able to
make the calculations with good speed and
- Workingexperience in a similar position is an added
How to Apply
Are you interested in this position and do you meet the minimum requirements?
Apply by sending an
email with your CV and a convincing cover letter to recruitment@kilimall.com – Subject: Finance Intern
Due to the high volume of applications received only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.