Accounts and Finance Manager Job in Kenya 2019
Accounts and Finance Manager
Location: Nairobi
Job Summary: Reporting to the CEO, you will supervise all financial tasks of the company and ensure beneficial use of capital and resources. Additionally you will supervise, track and evaluate day-to-day activities such as establishing financial status by developing and implementing systems for collecting, analyzing, verifying and reporting information.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Acccounts
- Manage and oversee the daily operations of the accounting department including: month and end-year process
- accounts payable/receivable, cash receipts, general ledger, payroll and utilities, treasury, budgeting, cash forecasting
- revenue and expenditure variance analysis, capital assets reconciliations, trust account statement reconciliations, fixed asset activity, debt activity.
- Monitor and analyze accounting data and produce financial reports or statements
- Establish and enforce proper accounting methods, policies and principles
- Coordinate and complete annual audits
- Provide recommendations
- Improve systems and procedures and initiate corrective actions
- Assign projects and direct staff to ensure compliance and accuracy
- Meet financial accounting objectives
- Establish and maintain fiscal files and records to document transactions
Finance
- Forecast monthly, quarterly and annual results
- Approve or reject budgets
- Conduct risk management
- Evaluate and decide on investments
- Supervise a team of Accountants
- Allocate resources and manage cash flows
- Conduct profit and cost analyses
- Develop secure procedures to maintain confidential information
- Ensure all accounting activities and internal audits comply with financial regulations
- Consult board members about funding options
- Recommend cost-reducing solutions
Qualifications and Experience
- BS degree in Accounting, Finance or Economics
- Proven working experience as Accounting Manager, Accounting Supervisor or Finance Manager
- Advanced computer skills on MS Office, accounting software and databases
- Ability to manipulate large amounts of data
- Proven knowledge of bookkeeping and accounting principles, practices, standards, laws and regulations
- High attention to detail and accuracy
- Ability to direct and supervise
Deadline: Interested parties should send their online applications on or before 22nd March 2019
Correspondence: Detailed CV to be submitted online at http://goo.gl/T8sryH
Applications not meeting minimum requirements will not be considered.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.