Accounts Officer at Evidence Action

Job purpose

To Support Finance Operations in the Nairobi Office.

Description of duties

• Preparing Payments schedules – Assist the accountant in ensuring all payment vouchers are complete and supported for payment processing.
• Stamping all the payment vouchers ‘paid’ after processing and ensure they are properly scanned and saved inbox.
• File all the payment vouchers chronologically and ensure the files are easily retrieved.
• Payment vouchers retrievals for verification, more so to support sampled transactions during the audit period.
• Assisting the accountant in ensuring that all program liquidated advances are labelled filed and referenced to the tracker prepared by the assigned accountant.
• Assets Management- updating the current Evidence Action Kenya Asset register by ensuring all assets in the register are tagged, the status of the asset updated as well as ensure all additions and disposals are properly captured and reconciling with the Inventory online system.

Qualifications, Experience and Skills

• Qualifications include:
• 3years’ work experience
• Bachelor’s degree in finance or any other related field.
• Professional certification in ACCA or CPA
• Strong oral and written communication skills;
• Audit management experience in donor-funded programs.

Desired Attitude

• Self-motivated with the ability to operate under own initiative and also take instructions to prioritize and manage a diverse workload.
• Ability to work well in a team;
• Enthusiastic to take on a role with a significant responsibility while developing personally and professionally
• Problem-solving skills;
• Independent, proactive and willing to take initiative.
• Interested in a work environment that is flexible, creative, and constantly changing.