Position: Financial Accountant
Closing date: 31/01/2025
Responsibilities
Job description
Financial Accountant to process suppliers’ payments by performing supplier payment reconciliations and processing invoices/credit notes.
Key Responsibilities
- Performing day-to-day financial transactions, including verifying, and recording accounting data in the system.
- Review documents and transactions to ascertain compliance, accuracy, and reasonableness of the transactions.
- Ensure all financial transactions are properly and timely updated and recorded.
- Ensure timely processing of payments and preparation of the weekly payments report.
- Prepare the weekly and monthly cash flow reports and forecasts.
- Prepare and file all statutory and tax returns (monthly, quarterly and annually) – Income tax, VAT, withholding tax, PAYE, NSSF, NHIF etc and ensure payments to the authorities are made on time as provided by applicable laws.
- Perform finance end-month closure process and ensure overall general ledger hygiene by reconciling all balance sheet and PL accounts and following up reconciling items on a timely manner.
- Prepare the financial statements including income statements, balance sheets, cashflows and all the other required reports.
- Prepare the interim and final audit files and follow up all audit issues raised by internal and external auditors.
- Assist departmental heads in the preparation of the annual budgets for the respective units.
- Maintain proper filing of documents and maintain proper records of all accounting transactions.
- Provide accurate and timely reports as required by management and heads of departments.
- Create and promote a positive work environment within the finance team.
Requirements
Hard skills and experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance
- At least 4 years of experience in a similar role
- CPA finalist
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel
- Proficiency in Accounting software (e.g. QuickBooks, Sage, SAP).
How to apply
If qualified and up to the challenge, please send your updated resume to [email protected] *protected email* by 31 January 2025, and indicate ‘Financial Accountant” in the subject line.
