Job Opportunities at Standard Group

• This role is responsible for providing guidance to the Chief Accountant and Executive Management through accounting for the Group's revenue on a daily basis and ensuring that this is captured correctly for the management's decision making.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Maintaining revenue integrity and assurance, by ensuring all goods and services from the Group are invoiced appropriately; Carrying out reconciliations between expected revenue and general ledger entries to ensure accuracy and completeness of transactions;
• Understanding, managing, and supervising all aspects of cash flow;
• Managing relationships with financial service providers; Preparing and monitoring Group's various cash flow forecasts and carrying out financial modeling;
• Risk forecasting to protect the Group's value from the operational risk it faces from its business activities;
• Uploading M-PESA circulation revenue into the SAP system from all the bulks in the country and ensuring that errors are corrected where need be;
• Generating daily, weekly and monthly revenue reports to the management;
• Ensuring that petty cash vouchers are correctly accounted for before petty cash payments are made;
• Ensuring that branch reconciliation reports are done and sent to the head office by 20th of every month and that branch performance is monitored on a daily basis;
• Confirming that all the cash from the bulk is correctly credited in the bank statement;
• Responding to all audit queries from both internal and external auditors;
• Ensuring that refunds to vendors are as per the updated vendor statement and the same is maintained for reference purpose.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

• University degree in accounting such as B. Com (Accounting) or equivalent. CPA (K), ICPAK, ACCA.
• Minimum of 3-5 years' experience in similar work in a commercial organization
• Extensive negotiating experience
• Excellent influencing skills, with the ability to adapt to a variety of styles
• Proven track record of delivering results
• Sound project management skills
• A proactive and customer focused approach

SKILLS AND OTHER ATTRIBUTES

• Strong organizational skills and ability to work with others and manage multiple time sensitive matters in a demanding organization.
• Ability to take initiative, analyze issues and generate potential solutions.
• Goal oriented and ability to understand the mission of the Company and contribute towards its attainment. Strong communication skills (oral and written). Strong presentation skills. Leadership skills
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Effective negotiation and facilitation skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft applications including Microsoft Office Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
   

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OVERALL PURPOSE OF THE JOB.

• This role is responsible for providing guidance to the Chief Accountant and Executive Management through management reporting; budgeting and forecast cost and control.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Preparation of monthly management accounts.
• Provide the required assurance that all accounting entries passed in the GL are free of material misstatements and that due diligence is observed while processing accounting journals.
• Preparation of monthly segments and group consolidated profit and loss statements, Balance sheet and cashflow statement.
• Respond to financial inquiries raised by various costs and profit centers. Ensure appropriate and effective accounting policies procedures are adopted in accordance with statutory requirements and accounting standards.
• Offer decision support to business units through informative dashboards, trend reports and variance analysis.
• Cost control through daily approval of expenditures to conform to set budgets.
• Regularly advise management on new projects profitability through preparation of P&Ls, Cashflows and ROI reports.
• Assist in preparation of the Annual financial Report booklet.
• Daily GL analysis and monitoring of quality of the information input. Preparation of company annual budget through collection of information from the business units, analysis using a zero-based approach, consolidating and submission to management for discussion and alignment, before approval by the Board of Directors. Upload of the approved budgets to SAP(ERP). Maintaining budgetary control through daily analysis of revenue and cost.
• Direct material costing which involves preparation of weekly reports for print consumables and the broadcast programs schedule.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

• University degree in accounting such as B. Com (Accounting) or equivalent. CPA (K), ICPAK, ACCA.
• Minimum of 3-5 years' experience in similar work in a commercial organization
• Strategic planning and Goal setting to ensure the organization's long- term sustainability
• Full member of top decision-making body
• Ability to understand long term effects on the organization Must understand function/discipline planning requirements. Contributes to policy making decisions impacting the whole organization.

SKILLS AND OTHER ATTRIBUTES

• Strong organizational skills and ability to work with others and manage multiple time sensitive matters in a demanding organization. Ability to take initiative, analyze issues and generate potential
• solutions.
• Goal oriented and ability to understand the mission of the Company and contribute towards its attainment.
• Strong communication skills (oral and written). Strong presentation skills. Leadership skills
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Effective negotiation and facilitation skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft applications including Microsoft Office Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.