Accountant at County Government of Lamu

ACCOUNTANT I, J/G ‘K’ LCPSB/ADV/2021/14 (3 POSTS)
Terms of Service: Permanent & Pensionable

REQUIREMENTS FOR APPOINTMENT
For appointment to this grade, the candidate must:

1. Be a Kenyan Citizen;
2. Have Passed Part III of the Certified Public Accountants (CPA) Examination

OR

1. Have Bachelor’s degree in Commerce (Accounting or Finance option), Business Administration (Accounting option) from a recognized institution or any other relevant equivalent qualification;
2. Have Passed Part II of the Certified Public Accountants (CPA) Examination
3. Have Certificate in Computer Applications;
4. Shown merit and ability as reflected in work performance and results.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Specific duties and responsibilities will be as follows:
2. Verification of vouchers and committal documents in accordance with laid down rules and regulations;
3. Data capture, maintenance of primary records such as cashbooks, ledgers, vote books, registers and preparation of simple management reports e.g. imprest and expenditure returns etc.
4. Safe custody of Government records and assets under him/her, analysis the line accounts and may be deployed as a cashier where duties will entail receiving duly processed payments and receipt vouchers;
5. Posting payments and receipt vouchers in the cash books; balancing and ruling of the cash books on daily basis;
6. Extracting and providing cash liquidity analysis;
7. Preparation of expenditure and Authority to Incur Expenditure (AIE) funding returns on quarterly basis at County treasury level;
8. Preparation of Appropriation–In–Aid (AIA) returns on quarterly basis at district treasury level;
9. Paying personal and merchant claims guided by cash balances in the cash books and treasury regulations;
10. Receipting of all money due and payable to government.
11. Any other relevant duties that may be assigned from time to time.