Job Title: ACCA / CIMA / CA / ACA / Qualified Accountant
Job Summary: The job holder shall play a central role of
ensuring the integrity of accounting information by researching Finance issues
for compliance and by establishing quality control over financial transactions
and financial reporting.
Main Duties
Main Duties
The following duties and
responsibilities are attributed to this position:
- Verifying, allocating, posting and reconciling
transactions
- Producing error-free accounting reports and
presenting their results
- Analyzing financial information and
summarizing financial status
- Providing technical support in Finance aspects
- Reviewing and recommending modifications to
accounting systems and procedures
- Participating in financial standards setting
and in forecast process
- Providing input into department’s goal setting
process
- Assisting in preparing financial statements
and producing budgets according to schedules
- Assisting in directing internal and external
audits to ensure compliance
- Supporting month-end and year-end close
process
- Assisting in developing and documenting
business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen
internal controls
- Preparing and recording asset, liability,
revenue, and expenses entries by compiling and analyzing account
information
- Maintaining and balancing subsidiary accounts
by verifying, allocating, posting, reconciling transactions; resolving
discrepancies
- Maintaining general ledger by transferring
subsidiary accounts; preparing trial balances; reconciling entries
- Summarizing financial status by collecting
information; preparing balance sheet, profit and loss, and other
statements
- Assisting in completing external audit by
analyzing and scheduling general ledger accounts; providing information
for auditors
- Avoiding legal challenges by complying with
legal requirements
- Securing financial information by completing
database backups
- Maintaining confidentiality on Financial
matters
- Updating job knowledge by participating in educational
opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal
networks; participating in professional organizations.
- Any other duties as may be allocated from time
to time
Academic & Professional
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance/Business
or equivalent
- Full ACCA/CIMA/ CA/ACA/equivalent
qualification
- Membership to recognized professional
accounting body
- Skills & Work Experience
- Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience,
ideally from both accounting firm and industry
- Working knowledge of information systems /
accounting software (ideally ERP)
- Proficiency in the Microsoft Office Suite of
Packages (Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.)
- Knowledge of financial control and cost
accounting practices, including preparation of management accounts,
budgets, reconciliations
- Excellent communication, interpersonal and
team working skills
Personal Qualities & Behavioral
Traits
- Integrity
- Strong ethical values
- High initiative
- Excellent communication skills (written and
spoken English)
- Attentive to detail
- Informed
- Proactive
- Trustworthy
- Flexible
- Resilient
- Fluent written and spoken English and
Kiswahili
- Stress tolerance, adaptability and able to
work additional hours during peak periods in order to meet deadlines and
commitments
- Meticulous planning and organizing skills
- Demonstrated problem-solving and analysis
skills
- Strong interpersonal, problem-solving,
negotiation, planning and administration skills
- No-nonsense approach to work, common sense and
logical thinking
- Excellent presentation, organizational and
multi-tasking skills
- High levels of discretion when handling
confidential information
Please note that applications shall
be processed on a first-come-first-served basis.
Application for Accountant Position in Nairobi
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