Officer, Finance
The Officer, Finance plays a critical part of the daily
financial life of all Support office functions by ensuring that there is a
constant link between the Kenya office and the Finance Service services in
India. The role ensures the smooth running of financial aspects of the business
from recording pupil receipts to receipt of payment, managing payments,
compliance and preparation of management reports.
Duties &
Responsibilities
- Ensure revenue is captured accurately by
the finance shared services team and adheres to IFRS and Bridge reporting
standards.
- Subject matter expert; ensure resolution of
accounting issues raised by shared services team on a timely basis.
- Drive financial period closing, preparation
of monthly financial statements, reconciliations, reports and management
notes with the Finance Shared Service.
- Preparation of quarterly unit profit and
loss account and management notes.
- Preparation of Finance weekly dashboard and
updating budget & other finance trackers.
- Work with the legal team and ensure that
academy leases are renewed on time and data shared with the shared
services team.
- Uploading fees payment in pupils accounts,
correcting any anomalies daily.
- Resolution of pupils’ accounts issues on a
timely basis and recommending improvements to avoid recurrence.
- Responsible for maintaining and reporting
on all academy repairs, actual spend vs budget.
- Coordinate stock taking on a quarterly
basis and reconciliation between actual inventory held and the Inventory
ledger, investigating any variances and recommending action.
- Compiling Fixed assets listing for
Insurance purposes, ensuring that additions and deletions are done on
time, communicated to the sourcing team..
- Filing of VAT & WHT returns on a
monthly basis and ensures payments are made on time as per statutory
requirements.
- Ensure timely payment of payroll statutory
and other deductions, for example PAYE, NSSF NHIF, Sacco etc. and filing
of returns where required by Finance Shared Service.
- Assist Finance Director in managing
statutory audit by ensuring that schedules are prepared on time, audit
queries resolved timely in order to mitigate audit overruns.
- Assist the finance director in preparation
and compilation of the East Africa operating budget.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- A degree in accounting Finance, Economics
or a related field
- CPA K with an excellent academic record.
- At least 5 years’ relevant work experience
in corporate finance/accounting; performing highly rigorous, complex
financial analysis.
- Good understanding of local tax
requirements.
- Experience in managing a team.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Dynamics
(Navision).
- Excellent skills in Microsoft office, an
expert in Microsoft Excel a MUST.
- Experience working closely with a company
to build financial and operating models at a deep level, particularly on a
multi-country level.
- Experience in preparation of management
reports, notes and presentation.
- Ability to relate well with both internal
and external customers and work in teams.
- Highly innovative, with excellent
analytical skills and ability to meet strict deadlines.
- High integrity, IT literacy.
- Ability to plan, manage own workload in
order to meet tight deadlines
- Proactive and self-motivated with excellent
communication skills.
- Confident and flexible team player with
great ability to work closely with non-finance team members within a
multicultural environment
You’re also
- A
detailed doer – You have a track record of getting things
done. You’re organized and responsive. You take ownership of every idea
you touch and execute it to a fine level of detail, setting targets,
engaging others, and doing whatever it takes to get the job done. You can
multi-task dozens of such projects at once and never lose sight of the
details. Likely, you have some experience in a start-up or other
rapid-growth company.
- A
creative problem-solver – Growing any business from scratch
comes with massive and constant challenges. On top of that, Bridge works
in often fragile, sometimes volatile low-resource communities and with
complex government systems. You need to be flexible and ready to get
everything done effectively, quickly, and affordably with the materials at
hand.
- A
relentless advocate – The children we serve and teachers we
empower never leave your mind. You know them, get them, have shared a meal
with them (or would be happy to in the future). You would never shrink
back from shaking a parent’s hand or picking up a crying child, no matter
what the person was wearing or looked like. Every decision you make
considers their benefit, experience, and value.
- A
malleable learner – You believe you can always do better.
You welcome constructive criticism and provide it freely to others. You
know you only get better tomorrow when others point out where you’ve
missed things or failed today.
- A
data-driven decision-maker – When making decisions, you
don’t rely on your intuition alone. You collect data, you analyze it and
make decisions with clear justifications.
- A
curious investigator – You ask why a lot. You don’t just
take what you see and accept it. You wonder why it is that way, and are
aware that the world we see is created by human choices and actions – and
it could be different. You wonder, and see the world as wonderful even
when you want to change a part of it that is unjust.
How to Apply
