Job Vacancy
ACCOUNTANT
DEADLINE: MAY 31ST, 2021
KEY TASKS, DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Financial Budget: Providing data required for budgetary planning, assisting senior management in the preparation of the budget and budget management. Automate the budgetary preparation process.
- Financial Transactions: Coordinating and controlling all accounting functions, ensuring all expenses are fully and properly accounted for, in accordance with company procedures /guidelines ,safekeeping of cheque books and ensuring established signing authorities are complied with, ensuring confidentiality in all financial transactions.
- Accounting aspects of insurance transactions: Providing operating divisions with suitable guidelines on rising of accounting documents, facilitating expeditious payments of insurance claims. Ensuring reinsurance premiums are properly calculated and remitted, ensuring that all control accounts are reconciled on a monthly basis.
- Audit Requirements: Ensuring that the company books are ready for audit within the set timelines. Providing the necessary information for internal and external audits and conducting financial investigations as necessary.
- Financial reports and returns: Producing monthly and quarterly revenue and other management accounts in accordance with the calendar of events for the department.
- Also ensuring that the subsidiary ledgers are reconciled to the general ledger on a monthly basis and that the Audit schedules are updated on a monthly basis; preparing statutory returns and ensuring they are filed on time.
- Salaries and wages: Ensuring that records relating to staff deductions are properly maintained and quarterly statements are maintained and produced ensuring that statutory deductions are paid on due dates.
- Accounting and Financial systems and controls: On a regular basis reviewing both the computerized and manual systems to ensure they are efficient, identifying areas that need to be computerized or enhanced to improve overall efficiency and remove duplication of roles and transactions.
- Staff Duties: Study job description of each member of staff in your section to ensure that their productivity is commensurate with their position, propose enhancements to their jobs and ensure that each one of them is properly utilized.
- Tax matters and other returns: Ensuring accurate computation of the corporation tax and ensuring that the same is paid and the necessary returns made as stipulated by law.
- Ensuring that all the returns made to the Commissioner of insurance are made at the appropriate time.
- Accounting for Branches: Ensuring that all the accounting transactions for the branches are correctly captured and maintained; providing separate monthly revenue accounts, annual budgets and quarterly variance analysis.
- Accounting: Directly supervising the accounts assistant to ensure that accounting transactions are collectively captured and maintained, produce monthly quarter and annual accounts and variance analysis, produce the annual accounts and variance analysis, and produce the annual budgets and regularly advice management of any changes that may be required on systems and procedures.
- Fixed assets register: Ensure that a fixed assets register is maintained and that all assets are readily identifiable through a unique number for each asset.
PROFESSIONAL/ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION
- At least level 3 of CPA
- Computer literacy
- Bachelor of Commerce/ Bachelor of Business Administration degree (accounting)
EXPERIENCE
- 3-5 years working experience in a similar position. Audit experience will be an added advantage
- A good understanding of IFRS
CRITICAL SKILLS
- Computer literacy, especially MS Excel and Access; familiarity with accounting software a definite advantage.
- Ability to deal effectively with internal and statutory auditors.
- Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast paced environment.
- Strong work ethics and commitment to personal and corporate integrity.
- A strong team player; organized and creative in work improvement processes.
- Interest in and ability to streamline accounting process systems (manual and automated) to achieve added efficiency and robustness.
- Solid interpersonal skills with strong verbal and written communication skills across all levels and functions.
- Excellent planning and organizing skills including multi-tasking under pressure.