Job Title: Accountant
Hiring Organization: SGS
Location – Locality: Nairobi
Location – Region: Kenya
Industry: Service
Job Type: Full
Time
Salary: KES
Competitive
Date Posted: 03/08/2024
Job
Description
The R2R Accountant, in collaboration with the team leader and other members of the team, is responsible for providing business unit general accounting and internal control support in line with IFRS, including preparation and posting of journal entries, maintenance of bookkeeping, completion of the month end closing process and ensuring that the general ledger account balances and trial balances are appropriately reconciled.
Under the supervision of Senior Accountant, she/he is in charge of completeness, accuracy and timeliness of preparation as regards the general ledger, inventory, fixed assets as well as for the associated reporting requirements.
Moreover, he/she supports senior colleagues in carrying out the ordinary task of the accounting department.
He/she follows Desktop Procedures and adequate policies and guidelines in place, initiates Desktop Procedures updates whenever required and actively seeks for improvements.
Qualifications
- Relevant
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance with at least 6+ years’ experience
- Professional
certificate from any of the recognized accounting bodies (CPA, ACCA etc)
- High
understanding of General Ledger accounting processes and information
systems
- Good
knowledge and understanding of generally accepted accounting principles
(IFRS)
- Ability
to manage the general accounting function and deliver process enhancements
(General ledger maintenance and closing, Fixed Asset inventory
maintenance, and account analysis / reconciliation processes)
- Knowledge
of FA, INV, Intercompany transaction is a must
- Good
command of English
- Analytical
skills
- Deadline
oriented
- Able
to examine and interpret financial data
- Excellent
communications skills in English
- Basic
knowledge of Country language is a welcome element
- Good
interpersonal skills
- Highly
organized
Additional
Information
- Responsibility
for preparation and posting of journal entries for the designated SGS
Affiliates.
- Perform
supervision activity of R2R junior accountant.
- Maintenance
of standard GL, FA and INV, reports to corporate and business units.
- Collaborate
with team leader in ensuring data integrity and preparing financial
information
- Assist
team leader in performing the periodic close of general ledger which
includes maintaining the close schedule, scheduling of subsystem feeds,
making materiality decisions on closing entries and communicating to
customers when the monthly trial balance is finalized.
- Responsible
for specific activities related to annual and interim audits assigned by
the team leader
- Work
independently for the area assigned by team leader
- grant
quality in account analysis/reconciliations.
- Maintaining
Inventory and Fixed Asset modules and related entries in these accounts
- Responsible
for the planning and execution of fixed asset verifications, inventory
counts.
- Identification
and presentation of solutions for process improvements
- Cooperating
with other team members to ensure that the East Africa Finance Cluster is
meeting, or exceeding performance levels reported in SLA.
- Any
other duties and responsibilities assigned to by the Team Lead and Finance
Operations Manager from time to time.
- Ensure
that work carried meets the requirements of the Group Integrity and
Confidentiality standards and procedures.