Finance Manager at HRBP Solutions

Finance Manager Job Responsibilites

• Supervise the Finance Dept
• Review and approve vouchers – petty cash, cheque payments, suppliers, internal transfers.
• Authorize payments – sign cheques and funds transfer instructions to company’s bankers.
• Act as the company’s interface with bankers and the liaison on administrative matters.
• Confirm manually initiated funds transfers
• Authorize purchases ( signing LPOs)
• Administer and approve staff leave requests
• Implement/enforce management directives regarding staff/admin matters for the team you supervise
• Manage petty cash floats (various currencies) for the company and for the various departments
• Review returns and authorize re-imbursements.
• Liaise with other heads of department and senior management on day to day issues , e.g. authorization/allocation of expenses, etc.
• Ensure that the general ledger accounts and disbursements files are regularly monitored and fully explained at the end of the month.
• Download monthly results per cost centre from the Financial Reporting System and investigate variations from budgeted amounts.
• Support heads of department in generating their monthly statistics and expense analysis.
• Complete the consolidation package for purposes of reporting to Head office.
• Involvement in the annual budget preparation process.
• Monitor capital investment per cost centre to ensure it is in line with budgeted amounts.
• Facilitate recruitment of staff in the department by participating in interviews together with HR Manager, drafting job descriptions and evaluation of staff performance during probation period.
• Give the necessary support to the external auditors to facilitate finalization of the year end financial statements.
• Control the tax file for the company vis a vis records maintained by the company’s tax consultants and the
• Kenya Revenue Authority, and to follow up on VAT and corporation tax issues with the company’s tax consultants.
• Ensure conformity with tax regulations by remitting statutory deductions within the stipulated time limits, ensuring the necessary amounts are with held where necessary and remitted to the tax authorities.
• Control & approve the bank/petty cash reconciliation
• Follow up and validate credit notes.
• Any other tasks as assigned from time to time by management

Key skills

• Analytical skills
• Management
• Communication
• Negotiation
• Computer literacy

Qualification, Knowledge & Experience for the Finance Manager Job

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance
• CPA ( K)
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in similar role

N.B – those with shipping experience , costing and project costing experience will have an added advantage