The opportunity
We are looking for a senior accountant to join our robust ACR team.
Your key responsibilities
The work mainly involves working with the ACR team by carrying out the following tasks:-
Senior Accountant Roles:
- Ensure clients’ invoices, payments, payroll journals and other financial transactions are booked in Microsoft Business Central accounting software.
- Ensure prepayments are expensed monthly (rent, insurance etc.)
- Fixed asset accounting and management (i.e. update fixed assets registers and schedules, depreciation expense, control fixed asset movement).
- Ensure that required provisions and accruals are captured and posted done in the accounting system.
- Ensure monthly vendor reconciliations are completed.
- Create new vendors and customers where required.
- Preparing regular reports such as trial balance, statements of financial position, financial performance, changes in equity and cash flows.
- Send out remittance advices when payments are done.
- Ensure monthly bank reconciliations are done in the accounting system.
- Ensure necessary accruals & provisions are taken and the schedules updated monthly
- Perform monthly vendor aging analysis.
- Prepare month end closing and month end reports for our clients
- Prepare statutory financial statements in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) and the Kenya Companies Act, 2015.
- Coordinate annual audits on behalf of accounting/bookkeeping clients.
- Working with clients to come up with required journals to ensure compliance with IFRSs.
- Support managers and partners in growing EY business such as in drafting potential client’s proposals, billings and debtors’ collections.
- Supervise and train assistant accountants.
- Update clients on new and amended financial accounting and reporting standards.
Senior Payroll Consultant’s roles:
- Ensuring that all monthly data input is received from clients.
- Any roll forward data input is captured and back- up taken from the previous month.
- Ensure that PAYE is computed correctly and in accordance with prevailing tax laws.
- Ensure that monthly reports are generated and shared with manager for reviews.
- Send the reviewed payroll reports to client’s contacts on time.
- Process net salaries on the client’s online banking system accurately and on time
- Issue pay slips on time.
- Ensure that the statutory payments are processed as per their due dates
- File all relevant statutory deductions (PAYE, NSSF, NHIF, AHL, HELB and NITA) on or before the due dates.
- Update clients on changes in regulatory, payroll taxes and statutory social security.
- Prepare and issue clients fee invoices on a monthly basis.
Skills and attributes for success
How your skills and experience will make an impact, followed by sub-headings:
To qualify for the role, you must have: -
- A Bachelor’s degree in either Economics/Business/Finance or a related field with a minimum of upper second-class honours or its equivalent
- A minimum overall grade of a B and B in both English & Mathematics at Secondary School level
- Professional qualification in accounting (ACCA, CPA or CA Finalist)
- SAP/BC18/Navision/Pastel/Quick books Knowledge or its equivalent
- Computerised accounting skills
- Proficiency in payroll software packages such as VIP or PaySpace
- Advanced Excel knowledge and macros
- Hands on iTax knowledge
- Exemplary communication and interpersonal skills
- 5 years hands on experience in monthly management reports, payrolls, annual audit and preparation of statutory financial statements in accordance with IFRSs
Ideally, you’ll also have
Working experience in Accounting/Finance department for at least 5 years or more with hands on experience with computerized Accounting Systems like ERPs e.g., NAVISION,BC 18, SAGE and payroll computerized payroll systems.
What we look for
A person who is:
- Able to prioritize, multi-task and work independently
- Proactive
- Attentive to detail
- Agile and curious to learn
- Discrete & Honest
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