Head of Finance Job in Kenya

Position: Head of Finance

Main Competence Requirements
  • The candidate must have the ability to communicate clearly and persuasively
  • Must have the ability to work cooperatively with other members of the team (HODs) with a full understanding of the role to be played as a team member
  • Focus on delivering quality and continuous improvement
  • Ability to create and maintain open constructive relationships with others, respond helpfully to their enquiries and to be sensitive to their situations
  • Ability to convince others to agree on or to take a course of action
  • Must have the capacity to inspire individuals to give of their best to achieve the desired results
  • Looking after the interests of the customer and ensuring that their wants, needs and expectations are met/ exceeded.
  • Must have the capacity to understand the business needs and priorities of the organization
  • Must have the capacity to identify and explore business opportunities.
Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Initiating and implementing the department’s operating standards and procedures for the smooth running of the department
  • Formulating and implementing necessary policies to govern and guide the financial management of the hotel so as to ensure uniformity and transparency
  • Ensuring adequacy of the internal controls in compliance to corporate government requirements
  • Manage and give leadership to the annual budget preparation process ensuring a balanced position and necessary action in the event of deficit
  • Preparing the hotel’s business plan with all HOD’S and monitoring of same.
  • Maintaining the asset register and updating capitalized items.
  • Preparation of Capex budget
  • Negotiate discounts and credit facilities
  • Preparation of cash flow projections
  • Provide periodical financial analysis to assist management in decision making
  • Manage the hotel’s debt collection and credit control
  • Preparing monthly P&L accounts, highlighting departmental variances against budget and the causes
  • Working with the HOD’s, establish a revenue and expenditure analysis and forecasts
  • Ensuring statutory remittances in compliance with the law
  • Ensuring timely Annual returns and company secretarial filling
  • Preparing monthly consolidated financial reports and year end management accounts
  • Monitoring and management of all POS transactions to ensure accuracy and timeliness of the reporting of the financial result/position
  • Preparation of monthly petty cash analysis and Bank reconciliations
  • Handling day to day operational issues – when acting as duty Manager
  • Payroll reconciliation
  • Any other duties delegated by the Directors and the General Manager
Requirements:
  • University Degree - Commerce.
  • Professional qualification – CPA, ACCA etc.
  • Over 5 years’ experience in comparable role
  • Experience in the hospitality industry will be an added advantage
  • Membership to a relevant professional body – ICPAK an added advantage
  • Audit knowledge
If you meet the requirements above, send your CV with the subject HEAD OF FINANCE to terry@amsol.co.ke and cc: jemima@amsol.co.ke