Principal Accountant at Rural Electrification Authority

Job Description

• Preparing financial management reports ;
• Ensuring financial processes and procedures are adhered to;
• Complying with regulations pertaining to financial management and controls;
• Verifying that expenditures are within project budgets;
• Ensuring projects budgets overheads are remitted;
• Analysing payments and carrying out data analysis to support preparation of accounting reports;
• Extracting and providing cash liquidity analysis ;
• Balancing and ruling of the cashbooks on a daily basis;
• Oversee planning and budgeting processes;
• Ensuring correct maintenance of customers and suppliers records for the purpose of payment;
• Ensuring financial processes and procedures are adhered to;
• Any other duties that may be assigned from time to time.

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in any of the following disciplines:- Commerce (Accounting option); Commerce (Finance option); Business Administration (Accounting option) or equivalent qualification from a recognized institution;
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA,K) or Association of Certified Chartered Accountants (ACCA);
• Master’s degree in any of the following disciplines:- Business Administration (Finance); Business Administration (Accounting); Master of Science in Finance or equivalent qualification from a recognized institution;
• Membership to ICPAK or equivalent.
• Be proficient in accounting packages;
• Leadership or Management Course is an added advantage ;
• Certificate in computer applications from a recognized institution.
• Five (5) years working experience, three (3) of which must be in supervisory level;
• Decision making and problem solving skills;
• Leadership skills;
• Communication skills;
• Analytical Skills;
• Demonstrated Integrity;
• Meets the requirements of chapter six of the constitution.