Financial Reporting Accountant at Airtel Kenya

Reporting to the Head of Financial Reporting, the responsibilities will include and are not limited to;

• Handling management reporting and ensuring all month end/year end closing activities are completed on time
• Preparation of key reconciliations for review, sign off and coordinate General Ledger Analysis. Reconciliations will include the following - Financial Accounting/ General Ledger; Payment Voucher/ General Ledger; Intelligent Network/General Ledger; Account Payable/General Ledger; APPO/ General Ledger; Capital work In Process / General Ledger; Inventory/ General Ledger; vendor, Account Receivable/General Ledger and Cash/Bank reconciliations
• Preparation of statutory accounts and circulation of the Financial Reporting calendar and Foreign exchange rates

• Coordination of all audit activities by ensuring a smooth audit process, and timely provision of audit schedules, resolution of audit queries, response to audit issues adherence to the audit calendar and tracking of audit activities

• Champion process improvement initiatives that build a robust controls environment by carrying out end to end review of all Finance processes to ensure relevance to business needs, compliance to the Group office requirements, regulatory requirements and accounting standards
• To educate the team on accounting guidelines, standards and procedures
• Preparation and disclosure of Tax schedules and ensuring the proper usage of tax account codes
• Timely provision of tax computation inputs and accounting of statutory reporting for deferred tax and corporate tax

Knowledge, Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in either Accounting, Finance , Business or Economics
• Certified Accountant (CPA / ACCA)
• 2 - 4 years’ experience in a busy accounting environment
• A good working knowledge of Oracle system and advanced excel
• High degree of integrity
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Good planning, organizing and coordination skills
• Proactive with very strong work ethics