Finance Officer at African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS)

Core duties of the Finance Officer (FO)

• Managing payments of the center by ensuring timely processing, adequate supporting documents in line with ACTS policies, accurate project and expense coding, vendor account reconciliations and playing a liaison role between the procurement and the Finance department.
• Review field expense reports by ensuring accuracy, adherence to ACTS’ policies, proper project and expense coding, follow up on refunds and journal processing.
• Ensure monthly accounting data is updated in the SUN System on regular basis and adequate review is carried out and corrections implemented when necessary upon approval of the same.
• Carry out monthly reconciliations for all bank accounts, credit cards, petty cash etc
• Perform month-end closing activities such as various ledger account reconciliations to ensure accuracy in the accounting data.
• Ensure finance data is accurately maintained both physically and in softcopy.
• Ensure compliance with local statutory regulations; withholding tax (WHT), PAYE, NHIF, NSSF, NITA etc.
• Prepare quarterly Budget vs Actual reports and ensure regular project fund reconciliations.
• Participate in the design and implementation of internal controls, policies, and procedures to ensure compliance with all applicable policies, laws and regulations.
• Support both project and institutional audit processes.
• Supervise Accounts assistant and provide guidance when necessary.

Minimum Requirements

• The candidate must hold a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or relevant field from a recognized Institution.
• Qualified Certified Accountant of Kenya.
• Knowledge of Computer Skills and at least one accounting package.
• At least 3 years’ experience in donor funded set-up.

Please send a cover letter, resume and scanned copies of academic certificates as a single document, including contact details for 3 references to hr@acts-net.org by 17:00 hrs. East Africa Time on 7th July 2023.