Job Title: Chief Accountant
Based in: Nairobi
Based in: Nairobi
Salary: 250,000ksh
Job
Summary: The Chief
Accountant is responsible for all areas relating to financial reporting,
developing and maintaining accounting principles, practices and procedures to
ensure accurate and timely financial statements.
Job Description
Job Description
- Oversees
the overall financial operations of the hospital including accounting,
budgetary, audits, and other financial planning activities
- Develops
and implements policies and procedures
- Contributes
financial expertise in the planning of new services that generate
additional sources of profitable revenue
- Obtains
and maintains a thorough understanding of the financial reporting and
general ledger structure
- Carry
out the daily requirements.
- Analyzes
areas in planning, promoting and conducting organization-wide performance
improvement activities
- Good
knowledge of principles and practices of financial management
- Implements
appropriate changes in accounting systems and procedures
- Contributes
to the achievement of continuous quality improvement in the delivery of
services to customers
- Develops
and implements policies and procedures with emphasis on internal controls
- Monitors
and analyzes department work to develop more efficient procedures and use
of resources while maintaining a high level of accuracy.
- Assists
in development and implementation of new procedures and features to
enhance the workflow of the department.
- Provides
leadership to the assigned section
- Prepares
and implements budgets and special revisions
- Monitors
the division’s budgets and expenditures
- Ensures
that operational and capital expenditure are appropriate
- Supervises
and reviewing the billing, revenue capture and expenditure functions
- Ensures
a smooth closedown of accounts for month-end and year-end in liaison with
other Departments
- Participates
in reviewing accounting systems and procedures to increase efficiency and
comply with any new guidelines issued through statutory, internal and
external audit reports
- Supervises
the compilation of monthly, quarterly and annual financial reports.
- Participates
in regular stock takes, following up on resolution of variances and taking
corrective action
Skills
- Business
degree
- CPA
(K)
- Good
knowledge of English both oral and written
- Competent
user of MS packages and other relevant software
- IT
Literate and proficiency in accounting software applications
- Six
(6) years progressive working experience in accounting, three (3) of which
must be at a supervisory level
- Expert
knowledge of accounting, auditing and financial and management reporting
- Effective
leadership skills
- Competent
user of MS packages and other relevant software
- Principles
and practices of hospital and healthcare budgeting and financial
management
- Accounting
principles, theories, concepts and their practical applications to
hospital operations in general and to cost accounting and cost recovery in
specific
- Financial
modeling
- Business savvy
Email: recruitment@cdl.co.ke
