Shelter-Afrique is a regional Housing Finance Institution
established by African governments and the African Development Bank dedicated
to investment in housing and urban development in African countries.
The institution, with its headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya,
invites applications from suitably qualified individuals who are nationals of
its member countries to fill the following vacant position:
Job Title: Assistant Officer Accounting
Responsible to a Team Leader in the Financial Management
department to assist in the company’s accounting activities.
This includes performing day-to-day book keeping and accounting
for the company.
This position operates with limited supervision for routine work
and is an evolving position and responsibilities may shift over time.
Job Description
- Perform bank
reconciliations
- Updating and
maintenance of the general ledger and various sub ledgers - debtors,
creditors, fixed assets
- Reconciliation
of creditors and debtors accounts
- Updating and
maintenance of fixed assets ledger, including physical asset tagging and
verification.
- Perform accounts
analysis using spreadsheets
- Timely
processing of payments
- Analysis and
follow up of advances / imprests to staff
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors degree
in Accounts or Finance or Business Administration
- Full
professional qualification in Accounts – CPA, ACCA etc.
- Minimum of 2
years working experience in a finance department or experience in external
/ internal audit
- Competency in
the use of Microsoft office applications such as Word, Excel.
- Good working
knowledge of a computerized accounting environment, preferably an ERP
system such as Oracle.
- Working
knowledge of French language will be an added advantage
Job Title: Assistant Officer Legal Services
Responsible to the Associate Legal Officer for providing
administrative and technical support to the department in order to facilitate
the smooth functioning of duties including drafting of loan agreement, custody,
safekeeping storage and retrieval of case files, material documents and exhibits
assisting in handle all the Company’s legal matters as delegated.
Job Description
- Research on
legal data to assist with cases taken up.
- Assist in the
research and Interpretation of legal texts for Shelter Afrique.
- Assist
management in interpreting and applying statutes, rules and regulations as
may be required from time to time.
- Assist to
establish or review legal conditions attached to loans.
- Assist in the
drafting of loan agreements and security documentation and ensure that the
company’s loans are adequately secured.
- Attend to the
drafting of various other agreements as may be required from time to time
by virtue of the Company’s relations with bilateral, multilateral
institutions and governments.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors degree
in law
- Minimum three
(3) years of post qualifying experience.
- Valid license to
practice
- Knowledge of,
legal principles, precedents, procedures and handling of confidential
information in the provision of specialized administrative and logistical
support to department
- Strong
communications and interpersonal skills in English, especially in ability
to prepare legal documents and various other correspondence requiring
knowledge of specialised legal terminology
- Demonstrated
customer focus and ability to deal patiently with people from diverse
backgrounds and to develop practical solutions to problems
- Competency in
the use of Microsoft office applications such as Word, Excel.
- Willingness to
learn the Company’s second official language (French).
The position is on general service terms and conditions of
service. Shelter-Afrique offers competitive salary and benefits package and a
collegial working environment.
Applicants are invited to send their applications via email
addressed to the
Managing Director, Shelter-Afrique,
P.O. Box 41479, Nairobi 00100,
Kenya
through: jobs@shelterafrique.org
Applicants should indicate “Assistant Officer Legal Services” as
the subject line of their email submissions which shall be considered until
C.O.B 22nd February 2013.
