Accountant
Overview
The accountant role shall be to manage all components of the organisation’s finance and accounting functions by ensuring financial processes and internal controls are strong and complied with. In addition to this they will be responsible for the management and reporting of financial data of an organization. Their duties include preparing financial statements, examining and analyzing a company’s accounts and ensuring compliance with financial reporting and other standard accounting procedures.
Responsibilities
- Maintaining
proper records in regards to office expenses and other programs
transactions
- Ensure
all transactions are accurately documented before payment
- Preparing
payment vouchers and writing cheques for the approved payments
- Compile
financial information for entries into QuickBooks
- Participate
in all the stock takes, asset verification and reconciliation of the same
- Proper
filing of documents and maintenance of accounting records
- Maintain
bank documentation file ensuring all necessary information like bank
slips, bank statements and any other bank correspondence are filled
properly
- Assist
with staff expense/advances reconciliations and processing
- Ensuring
that the cheque books and other financial records are properly stored and
safely secured at all times.
- Work
closely with the procurement committee to ensure all purchase procedures
are adhered to before any payments are processed.
- Scanning
and backing up documents in Google drive
- Support
the Audit process by availing the necessary documents for verification
- Accurate
and timely monitoring of budget and preparation of reports under the
direction of the business manager
- Perform
all reconciliations and monthly reports on a timely basis to ensure prompt
processing
- Implement
and ensure compliance to the organization financial policies and procedures
Qualifications
- A
Bachelor’s degree from an accredited University in finance, accounting,
business or related field;
- Certified
Public Accountant (K) or its equivalent
- In
depth knowledge of Kenyan corporate financial law and risk management
practices.
- Proficient
in the use of MS Office
- Extremely
high attention to detail and continuous striving for 100% accuracy
How to apply
Qualified candidates should send their CV
and application letter for the position and highlight relevant experience to jobs@aurumconsultants.co.ke on or before 28h Feb
2022. Due to large number of applications, only shortlisted candidates shall be
conducted. Applicants must quote the Position on application Subject