Vacancies at Janta Kenya

Job Description

Our client is a law firm is seeking for an accountant to join the team.

Key responsibilities

• Tracking incoming and outgoing payments, managing accounts receivable and accounts payable.
• Ensure that the firm’s financial records are accurate and up to date.
• Generating financial reports – balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements
• Preparation and filing of tax returns in an accurate and timely manner.
• Act as the representative of the law firm while dealing with external parties e.g Kenya Revenue Authority
• Provide financial advice and strategy.
• Manage the general finances of the firm.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a CPA 4
• Experience on sage, QuickBooks and E-tims invoicing
• At-least 2 years of experience
• Ladies are encouraged to apply

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Duties and Responsibilities

• Schedule, Plan and conduct audits of the organization’s financial, operational and information systems.
• Identify and recommend improvements to the audited areas.
• Present audit findings and find ways to increase compliance and efficiency
• Ensure the business complies with all relevant internal requirements, industry regulations and government legislation
• Reviewing the internal control framework and consistently ensuring its compliance
• Assess the organization’s risk profile and develop an audit plan that effectively addresses the risks identified
• Performing and supervising audit field work, including system documentation, evaluation, interviews and financial analysis.
• Assess the organization’s risk profile and develop an audit plan that effectively addresses the risks identified
• In liaison with the Global Chief Audit Officer, coordinate and monitor the budgeting process and Reporting
• Coordinating and liaising with external auditors to ensure external audits and financial reporting processes are efficient and effective.
• Manage and ensure quality of all audit work conforms to the internal policies and audit standards.
• Any other duties as required by management

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in accounting, finance, business administration, or closely related field
• At least five (5) years of experience in auditing. Added advantage experience in Tech companies.
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) or other appropriate certifications or licensure.
• Auditing IT systems
• Able lead the development and implementation of a company-wide risk management framework
• Advanced professional audit standards and audit techniques.
• Ability to Maintain confidentiality at work
• Strong leadership, training, and mentoring skills.
• Professionalism, dependability, integrity and trustworthiness
• Strong organizational skill
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Flexible and ability to work under pressure

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Key Responsibilities

• Utilize various open-source technologies
• Use various tools to orchestrate solutions
• Build independent web-based tools, microservices and solutions
• Write scripts and automation using Perl/Python/Java/Bash
• Configure and manage data sources like MySQL, Mongo, Elasticsearch, Hadoop, etc
• Configure and manage queuing systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc
• Supervise and lead a systems administration team
• Scheduling and Overseeing Preventive Maintenance of the Server/System Infrastructure
• Ensure 99.99% availability of the System Infrastructure
• Serve as a Level 2/3 escalation for all System incidents
• Ensure System documentation is updated
• Manage System Inventory and spares
• Manage Configuration of all Systems (backup configuration and application of standardized configuration templates to Systems)
• Ensure the System team is upskilled and fit for role in an environment of evolving System technologies
• Liaise with the ITSM/Service Delivery manager to manage projects and IT&S processes and procedures.
• Ensure System licenses are valid and initiate acquisition of the same before expiry
• Managing day to day operation of internal System infrastructure and outsourced services, including hosted environment.
• Providing support to internal and external customers
• Development and maintenance of security protocols and controls
• Maintenance and development of business continuity solutions and disaster recovery (DR, back-ups, contingency planning)
• Perform regular audits and performance monitoring of mission critical infrastructure and processes

Financial Perspective KPIs:

• Financial loss due to operational failure or incorrect processing Customer Perspective KPIs:
• Internal customer satisfaction
• System Uptime achievement
• Service Availability per SLA

Operational

• Successful update of Policies and Procedures (P&P)
• Cycle time taken to complete activities (SLA)
• Number of training days
• Document quality
• Success rate of IT resolution

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or Relevant Field Required RHCE or equivalent
• Fintech, Telco / Service Provider experience is an advantage
• 8+ years’ experience managing Systems running on Linux and Microsoft
• Strong troubleshooting skills is key
• Degree in Computer Science/Telecommunication or related degree
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams to deliver projects and IT services
• Responsible for all IT infrastructure, processes, and projects
• Working knowledge of enterprise data center technologies including storage platforms, network switching, and security infrastructure within a virtualized data center
• Continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, Hudson, etc
• Minimum of 8 years DevOps experience
• Minimum of 8 years’ experience in managing complex Linux based infrastructure
• Minimum of 8 years’ experience in at least one scripting language and automation language
• Minimum of 8 years’ experience with administering data sources including MySQL, Couchbase, MongoDB & Elasticsearch
• Minimum of 8 years’ experience with containerization technologies such as docker, Kubernetes, Rancher
• Minimum of 8 years’ experience with virtualizations/HCI technologies such as VMware, Proxmox, RH KVM.
• Familiarity with a broad portfolio of Cloud infrastructure tools and experience with cloud infrastructure management and automation technologies (Chef, Puppet)
• Highly motivated with demonstrable enthusiasm for role
• Strong leadership, management, and communication skills
• IT project management experience
• Ability to configure and administer Active Directory, Microsoft365 and Azure Cloud AD is an added advantage.
• Experience implementing and managing hosted or web-based systems within a Windows environment
• Deep knowledge of Setup and Management of load balancing solutions (HaProxy, NGINX)
• Experience of implementation and managing high availability and rapidly scalable environments
• Internet technologies – DNS, SMTP, Proxies, Cache
• Security best practices (hardening, vulnerability scans, DMZ etc.)
• Storage and back-up methodologies