Accountant at Kobo Safaris

Job summary:

Reporting to the Chief Accountant, the Credit Control Accountant is responsible for ensuring all services rendered by the company are accurately invoiced, timely payment by debtors, proper receipting of cash/cheque/visa payment by debtors including subsequent banking, timely reporting-on weekly basis of unpaid debtors.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensure every booking is invoiced properly invoiced and sales thereof accounted in Finance System as per the company procedure and policy.
• Prepare for dispatch and send all invoices to Customers in accordance to the invoice process timetable.
• Maintain listing of accounts receivable as per company procedure and policy.
• Ensure all customer general ledger accounts are properly updated, debtors collection charges accounted for and debtors reconciled every month per the company procedures and policy
• Preparing and sending approved credit notes as per company procedure and policy.
• Ensuring all cash collected from Customers are properly receipted and banked as per the company procedures and policy.
• Ensuring suppliers invoices are properly vouched per our contracts, monthly creditors reconciliation as per company procedures and policy.
• Ensure that all necessary entries for payroll and excursions are posted and properly reconciled as required.
• Ensure all reconciliations are carried out to achieve proper allocation of cost of sales and overhead expenses as per the company set procedures.
• Safeguard assets, and as appropriate, verify the existence of such assets.
• Ensuring proper books of accounts and records have been maintained on a monthly basis and during the year of concern for extraction of the company’s final trial balance as required by the auditors.
• Ensuring that all post audit entries recommended by the auditors are duly updated.

Minimum skills and competencies required for this position are as follows:

• Bachelor of Commerce Degree with minimum 2 years work experience
• CPA K. Finalist
• Good understanding of financial reporting standards.
• Excellent report writing and communication skills.
• High level of Integrity and independence.
• Excellent analytical, organizational and problem solving skills
• Adaptability and behavioural flexibility
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Enthusiasm, energy and ability to deliver