Finance Assistant at BirdLife International

Responsibilities: The roles of the Finance Assistant will be:

•  Receive, track, and sort all payment requests confirming they are properly approved for processing.
•  Enter the ERP all approved vendor invoices for payment while observing segregation of duties.
•  Processing and timely submissions of statutory tax deductions with the relevant authorities.
•  Petty cash management and reconciliation.
•  Preparation of payment vouchers and cheques and ensuring that payments are made on time.
•  Support the staff imprest funds requisitions and liquidation processes.
•  Assists in preparing and posting journals.
•  Share remittance advice with supply chain for all processed vendor payments.
•  Perform banking roles such as cash depositing.
•  Ensure that all financial documents are properly filed for easy retrieval.
•  Support audits in retrieval of sampled documents.
•  Any other duties as assigned by the Finance Coordinator.

Required skills, experience, and qualifications:

•  University degree in Finance, Accounting,
•  CPA 11 qualifications.
•  In-depth experience with Excel spreadsheets
•  Good understanding of local taxation in Kenya.
•  Proven track record working in a finance office in an NGO or commercial sector.
•  High motivation, desire to achieve; attention to detail, excellent organisational skills, and ability to work to high standards with tight deadlines.
•  Team worker who can motivate others as well as themselves.
•  Excellent written and oral communication skills. Ability to work with people with various levels of competence.
•  Ability to analyse problems.
•  Flexibility and ability to work independently.
•  Computer literacy in all standard Microsoft office applications in particular MS Excel
•  Knowledge in ERP system an added advantage.
•  Oral and written fluency in English

Application deadline: 12th May 2023