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Accountant Jobs at Corporate Staffing Services in Kenya
Industry: Interior design
Location: Nairobi
Salary: 40 – 50K gross

Our client is recently set up international company in Kenya that specializes in supply of building materials and contracting of interior design work for high end residential and commercial projects. They have subsidiaries in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Kenya is the 1st branch in Africa. They seek to hire an all rounded accountant.

Accountant Job Key Responsibilities

Monthly Management Accounts

Ensure that monthly management accounts are produced by the specified date.

Check monthly management accounts for errors and correct.

Monthly Accounts

Ensure posting to general ledger is timely and accurate

Ensure statutory deductions are timely prepared and paid

Accounts System

Assist in implementation and maintenance of computerized accounting system

Full co-operation with Auditors and in preparation of Annual report

Support other staff in terms of understanding financial and purchasing procedures for compliance
Banking

Cash received from retirements are banked on a daily basis.

Analysis to be completed for banking and attached to bank deposit slips.

Filing of all bank reconciliation documentation

Bank Records and Bank Reconciliation

Ensure that all bank transactions are accurately and timely processed into the accounting system.

Get bank statements monthly with which to do bank reconciliations.

Prepare bank reconciliation monthly.

Ordering

Ensure that all orders are correctly authorized.

LPOs to be correctly filed

Ensuring that items received are processed correctly onto a Goods Received Note

Ensure all goods Received Notes and corresponding LPOs filed correctly

Ensure that invoices are received for all items received.

Ensure that invoices received are correct

Payroll

Assist on preparation of payroll

Prepare and submit statutory returns

Payment

Prepare all payment vouchers as per procedures and batch together for processing into accounting system.

Process all payment batches into accounting system as per procedures.

Ensuring that all withholding tax and VAT tax payment are done on time

Petty Cash

Responsibility for Petty Cash security

Reconcile petty cash monthly.

Ensure all petty cash vouchers signed for and filed numerically.

Petty cash Analysis completed daily and prepared for processing into accounts system.

Transactions processed daily into accounting system.

Audits

Assists auditors for the purpose of providing supporting documentation and/or information on internal process that is required for audit.

Budgets

Assist in budget development and implementation

Assess appropriateness of budget submissions, raising queries with budget holders where appropriate

Using business knowledge, review and challenge reforecast for trading subsidiary budgets
Skills and qualifications required for Accountant Jobs in Kenya

Requires a BBA in finance, Bcom in accounting, or related field.

CPA finalist

Requires5 or more years general accounting experience.

Requires a thorough knowledge of the fundamental theories, doctrines, systems, principles, practices and terminology of accountancy.

Must be PC literate with knowledge of computerized bookkeeping software, spreadsheet and word processing software; spreadsheet skills must be sufficient to enable incumbent to quantify and

illustrate routine financial reports, statements, and/or projections.

Requires excellent organizational, interpersonal, communications and management skills.

If you are up to the challenge, posses the necessary qualification and experience, please send your CV only quoting the job title on the email subject (Accountant 40 – 50K gross) vacancies@corporatestaffing.co.ke before Tuesday 19th May 2015

Kindly indicate current/last salary on your CV
N.B: We do not charge any fee for receiving your CV or for interviewing
Only candidates short-listed for interview will be contacted.
The Recruiting Manager
Corporate staffing Services
Nabui House, 3rd floor, Westlands. (Next to Unga House)

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