Financial Accountant -General Ledger (GL) at Safal Group

Key responsibilities:

• Own the overall internal control processes to maintain the integrity of the general ledgers involved and their supporting sub-systems.
• Collaborating with internal departments to gather, analyse, and interpret relevant financial information.
• Performing audits on financial data to assure its accuracy and truthfulness.
• Coordinate with group team for proper General Ledger as per group structure
• Ensuring that financial information complies with professional and regulatory standards.
• Aligning general ledger accounting practices to support budgeting and forecasting.
• Entering financial data such as accruals, deferrals, reclassifications, and interdepartmental entries into the ledger on a monthly basis, as well as preparing reports.
• Performing account analysis to ensure that journal entries and balances are correct
• Reconciling accounts with the general ledger.
• Gathering supporting documentation and performing record-keeping.
• Keeping abreast of regulatory requirements and best practices in accounting.
• Provide management with timely and accurate reports that are reliable & relevant for decision-making.
• Participate in the annual budget preparation.
• Assist in the creation or/and maintenance of related master data records.

Requirements

Qualifications required:

• Minimum academic qualification: Bachelors degree with CPA (K), CFA, ACCA, CA, or equivalent 
• Professional registration: ICPAK

Experience required:

• General work experience (years): 8-10 years
• Specific to the position (level/discipline/years): 3-5 years
• Industry: Manufacturing

Language requirements:

• Kiswahili
• English

Computer literacy:

• MS Office packages
• Outstanding knowledge of electronic spreadsheets
• Working knowledge of ERP system (Preferred SAP)