Payroll Accountants at Summit Recruitment and Search

Job Description

Our client, the region’s largest steel producer is looking to recruit 2 Payroll Accountants to be based in Westlands, Nairobi, Kenya. The ideal candidate MUST be a CPA (K) Finalist proficient in Endeavor Paymaster and/or TA Master Payroll systems.

Key responsibilities:

• Prepare, analyze and implement payroll transactions on a timely manner.
• Confirm manual attendance register vs biometric attendance register and reconcile.
• Periodic physical counts/audit at the plants and any variances should be reported to superior.
• Prepare and/or analyze periodic payroll reports, schedules and payroll related journal entries.
• Analyze payroll reports, statements, records and making recommendations to improve payroll process.
• Prepare and/or review the accuracy of payroll related journal entries and perform account reconciliation.
• Prepares audit schedules and assists/coordinates audit of accounting statements/reports.
• Coordinates with plants payroll accountant on issues affecting company payroll.
• Prepare statutory statement e.g PAYE, NSSF and NHIF and reconcile.
• Monthly payroll summary for all the plants and submit to Finance Controller.
• Reconcile with signed pay sheet with weekly/ monthly payroll.
• Any other duty is given by the management as and when required.

Qualifications:

• Must have a Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com) Degree or related field.
• Must have a CPAK qualification.
• Must have above 3 years’ experience in a busy working environment.
• Must be detailed oriented and possess good communication skills.
• Must possess strong systems aptitude in MS Office.
• Must be proficient in TALLY and/or SAP.