Financial Accountant at Catholic University of Eastern Africa

Duties and Responsibilities

• Update the cashbook and balance it on a daily basis.
• Review of investments, assets, loans, and cash and bank reconciliations and ensure they are done within set deadlines.
• Post the ledger batches and the journal entries to the General Ledger Approving allocations for all payments made and revenues received to ensure that such are charged
• in the appropriate account codes.
• Pull receipts from the student’s system to the nancial reporting system on a daily basis.
• Ensure that the Finance Department’s accounting procedures and policies are properly adhered to by the staff.
• Identify and coordinate training needs of the nance oce staff through regular checks, review and supervision of their work.
• Liaise with the internal auditor on matters’ relating to the accounts as well as handling audit queries from both the internal and external auditors.
• Ensure compliance with IFRS and statutory regulations in the areas of taxation, labour laws etc.
• Attend committee meetings.
• Maintain an orderly and clean chart of accounts.

Minimum Qualifications, Skills and Competences:

• Master’s degree in Accounting or a relevant field from an accredited institution.
• CPA (K) or its equivalent.
• Eight (8) years’ working experience 3 years of which must have been in a similar position.
• Experience of interpreting regulatory frameworks and a detailed understanding of their implication and impact;
• Experience of inuencing and negotiating satisfactory outcomes;
• Must be computer literate;
• Must be a team player;
• Must possess good interpersonal and communication skills;
• Must be a person of integrity; morally upright and mature;
• Must be able to work under minimum supervision;
• He/she should be exible and adaptable enough to work in a multicultural environment.