Senior Accountant (Salary upto 18k KES per month) at Walk In Solutions

Department: Accounts & Finance

Reporting Head: Group CFO & Functional Director

Job Purpose:

Proper analyzing of financial record and working as a team in Accounts and Finance

department.

Inventory

• Align physical stocks with ERP balances
• Random and regular stock counts
• Ensure reconciliation of stock movements
• Supervise monthly stock counts
• Impose stock control system
• Track and report obsolete & slow moving inventory and recommend ways of curbing
• recurrence.

Assets

• Regular update of Fixed asset register
• Supervise asset tagging and verification exercise.
• Maintain fixed asset ledgers
• Ensure accurate and monthly FA depreciation
• Ensure accurate calculation of investment deductions as per KRA guidelines
• Maintain FA movement schedules in articulate and correct manner
• FA ledgers reconciliations

Accounts Receivables

• Set monthly collection targets based on previous sales and outstanding details.
• Develop and monitor a credit control system in collaboration with sales and marketing,
• finance and top leadership.
• Establish and implement policies that follow customer service best practices while
• ensuring that customers submit payments on time.
• Laisse with credit control team to check customer credit reports, approve or deny
• applications and communicate decisions to appropriate teams in a timely manner.
• Maintain loan records, conduct regular analysis of the credit-control system and
• implement changes as needed to reduce bad debts.
• Follow up on overdue payments as escalated by collections team and report any
• payment issues to top management for appropriate action.
• Continuously work on ways to improve debt collection processes.
• Ensure daily tracking and reconciliation of cash sales
• Ensure articulate and proper record keeping
• Accounts receivables ledger reconciliations

Treasury Management

• Undertake daily bank reconciliations and share bank status reports.
• Ensure timely payments of suppliers, statutories, staff and bank covenants
• Act as the bank liason officer
• Managing and reporting on the foreign currency exposure of the company and
• processing all foreign currency payments.
• Conducting scenario and risk analysis while carrying out forecasting of medium and
• long- term funding and hedging requirements where applicable.
• Daily cash and float management and reconciliation
• Interest rate cost management and reconciliation
• Manage working capital and ensure that company accounts are well funded at all
• times
• Ensure capital expenditure funding
• Treasury accounts ledger reconciliation
• Proper & articulate records keeping

Accounts Payable

• Keeping track of all payments and expenditures, including purchase orders, invoices,
• statements, etc.
• Paying vendors by scheduling pay checks and ensuring payment is processed and
• closed within agreed credit periods.
• Generally responding to all vendor enquiries regarding finance
• Leading various teams to process and remit all statutory payments within timelines as
• prescribed by various statutory bodies.
• Supplier accounts reconciliation.
• Payable accounts ledger reconciliation.
• Payroll
• Run payroll for all staff and ensure accuracy and attention to details
• Ensure proper statutory and other deductions are done and remitted
• Ensure accurate statutory calculations
• Ensure timely payment of company staff salaries
• Payroll ledgers reconciliations
• Taxes
• Ensure accurate & timely calculation and filling of taxes
• Reconciliation of I-tax and tax ledgers
• Ensure timely payment of taxes
• Reconciliation of tax ledgers
• Management reporting
• Prepare and share various Financial and Accounting reports as required from time to
• time with top management.
• Undertake analysis of variances and discrepancies from all reports shared / prepared
• to ensure that there is adequate accountability.

People Management

• Manage, coach and develop a high performing team that meets agreed objectives and
• which delivers best practice results, added value and continuous improvements.
• Set objectives/KPIs, review and assess ongoing performance of direct reports.
• Report on achievement of targets and identify any actions required.
• Consistently promote high standards through personal example and roll out through
• the team so that each member of the team understands the standards and behavior
• expected of them.
• Ensure the delivery of the People Strategy within area of accountability  Manage and
• lead the team, ensuring adequate staffing levels.
• Monitor the completion of tasks and ensure good performance and record on
• appropriate systems.
• Review, implement and update company records e.g. training matrices, performance
• reviews, risk assessments.
• Communicate KPIs from the strategic annual plan so that each employee is aware

Self-Management

1. Support encourage and develop team and take ownership for team cohesion
2. Proactively contribute to creating a good team atmosphere
3. Makes useful links to arrive at insightful plans and solutions
4. Embraces personal challenge.
5. Confident, rounded thinking
6. Is resilient, optimistic and open to change
7. Has an Adult: Adult, collaborative approach to others
8. A self-starter, motivated and able to positively motivate others
9. Focused and target driven with a positive, can-do attitude

Academic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting and finance from a recognized university.
• CPA Finalist and possibly registered by ICPAK

Experience

• At least 5 years in busy accounting environment.
• Previous experience in a manufacturing company is an added advantage.