Financial Accountant at Catholic University of Eastern Africa

The Catholic University of Eastern Africa is seeking to recruit a dynamic, qualified and result oriented person to fill the position of Financial Accountant.

Job Purpose:

To ensure efficient, effective and timely update and maintenance of the general ledger on a timely basis and in line with the International Financial Reporting Standards and review of University policies.

Reporting: The job holder reports to the Chief Finance Officer.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Update the cashbook and balance it on a daily basis.
• Review of investments, assets, loans, and cash and bank reconciliations and ensure they are done within set deadlines.
• Post the ledger batches and the journal entries to the General Ledger Approving allocations for all payments made and revenues received to ensure that such are charged in the appropriate account codes.
• Pull receipts from the students system to the financial reporting system on a daily basis.
• Ensure that the Finance Department’s accounting procedures and policies are properly adhered to by the staff.
• Identify and coordinate training needs of the finance office staff through regular checks, review and supervision of their work.
• Liaise with the internal auditor on matters’ relating to the accounts as well as handling audit queries from both the internal and external auditors.
• Ensure compliance with IFRS and statutory regulations in the areas of taxation, labour laws etc.
• Attend committee meetings.
• Maintain an orderly and clean chart of accounts. Any other duty as may be assigned by the supervisor from time to time;

Minimum Qualifications, Skills and Competencies

• Master’s degree in Accounting or a relevant field from an accredited institution.
• CPA (K) or its equivalent.
• Eight (8) years’ working experience 3 years of which must have been in a similar position.
• Knowledge of the International Financial Reporting Standards.
• Knowledge of financial management principles and practices.
• Hands on experience with IT and in particular Sage ACCPAC.
• Knowledge of Internal and external audit practices and principles.
• Demonstrate sound judgement, tact and diplomacy and demonstrate proven ability to deal with confidential and sensitive issues.
• Confident, organised and an accomplished problem-solver.
• Integrity, honesty and ethics.
• Excellent verbal & written communication.
• Ability to investigate and solve finance related problems.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Professionalism –maintains a professional approach based on ethics and CUEA values.