Accounting Roles at Unifi

Main Purpose

• The function has the main purpose of ensuring the complex accounting needs for the business. The duties include assuming a leadership role to guide accounting personnel in daily tasks, maintaining the Chart of Accounts, ensuring accuracy and completeness of the General Ledger (Trial Balance) of the company as well as the preparation of Balance Sheet reconciliations, Management Accounts and analysis for review.

Core roles

• Ensuring accurate capture, maintenance and reconciliation of financial information. This role will work closely with the Finance Business Partner/FinOps Controller and FM to ensure processes are such that financial data is efficiently and completely recorded at all times. The role will require management of accounting staff as the company grows.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain the Chart of Accounts in line with group guidelines and ensure proper structure within the accounting system.
• Ensure the General Ledger and Trial Balance comply with IFRS, internal policies, and statutory requirements.
• Review and approve journals while ensuring appropriate segregation of duties.
• Ensure accurate and timely recording of all financial transactions with adequate supporting documentation.
• Perform monthly balance sheet reconciliations and ensure reconciling items are resolved within agreed timelines.
• Conduct analytical reviews of the Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet to identify risks, trends, or anomalies.
• Maintain departments, cost centres, and branch structures within the accounting system and ensure transactions are correctly allocated.
• Support internal and external audit processes by preparing required documentation and financial analysis.
• Maintain the Fixed Asset Register including onboarding, disposals, transfers, and tagging of assets.
• Reconcile the Fixed Asset Register with the General Ledger and review depreciation calculations.
• Ensure accurate and timely preparation and submission of statutory returns and tax payments to the Kenya Revenue Authority.
• Prepare regulatory returns and maintain company statutory registers and related records.
• Perform regular bank reconciliations and ensure discrepancies are identified and resolved.
• Ensure supplier invoices are accurately captured and supplier accounts reconciled monthly.
• Support supplier payment planning and ensure compliance with procurement approval processes.
• Perform complex accounting calculations including IFRS 16 lease accounting, loan facility amortisations, income tax, and withholding tax calculations.
• Support preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports.
• Assist in analysing variances against budgets, forecasts, and prior periods.
• Support preparation of annual budgets and financial forecasts.
• Provide financial data and analysis to management, funders, and other internal stakeholders as required.
• Assist with finance-related queries and ad-hoc analysis as required.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Professional accounting qualification such as CPA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a similar finance role, ideally within a dynamic or high-growth environment.
• Strong financial reporting, analytical, and numerical skills.
• Ability to interpret complex financial data and present insights clearly.
• High attention to detail and strong organisational skills.
• Ability to work independently while managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate across teams.
• Experience working with accounting systems such as Xero, Netsuite, or similar platforms is an advantage.

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Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the developing and implementing an annual audit plan.
• Plan and execute internal audits as per audit plan, including determining audit objectives and scope, identifying and assessing risks.
• Develop audit programs, and ensure compliance with internal audit work paper standards for each audit.
• Identify all significant control weaknesses and appropriately communicate these weaknesses to management timeously.
• Prepare reports containing observations, comments and recommendations based on carried out work.
• Present findings at audit meetings.
• Ensure the ongoing monitoring of management's corrective action plans until resolution.
• Identify the need for follow-up audits based on risks identified during an internal audit and maintain the audit plan.
• Monitor and investigate cash variances for all branches daily.
• Provide input into Manco monthly reports to reflect internal audit activities and outcomes. 
• Monitors appropriate measures for the prevention of fraud and elimination of conditions inductive to fraudulent actions.
• Assist in developing & implementing a whistle-blower hotline.
• Perform any other tasks as required.

Scope but not limited to
Operational audits

• Ongoing audit of areas vulnerable to operational fraud
• Unusual loan account transactions
• Branch cash-out instances
• Expense abuse
• Cash variance checks
• End of day variances: investigate & track resolution of findings
• Perform monthly variance analysis to identify unusual trends
• Client sampling - phone 10-20 clients per week to test transaction validity

Financial audits

• Audit implementation of accounting policies
• Review of Loan book reconciliation and balance sheet accounts
• Assess expense authorisations & legitimacy of expenditure.
• Clearing and suspense account reconciliations review
• Review of Banking rights and user access
• Inspect processed journals
• Compliance audits
• Regulatory compliance
• Review adherence to internal policies and procedures

Qualifications & Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Internal Audit, Finance, Accounting, or a related field; advanced degree or professional certification (e.g., CIA) is preferred.
• 4 -7 years of experience in auditing role 
• Experience in the banking and financial services environment will be an advantage.
• Ability to travel across Africa
• Knowledge of internal audit principles, standards, internal control environment
• Knowledge of relevant laws, regulations, and industry best practices is advantageous
• Understanding of Financial Crime and Compliance legislation, compliance procedures and standards
• Focus on improving the effectiveness of risk management, control, and governance processes
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment, meeting deadlines.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, 

End Date 31st July 2026