Motor Care and Services Garage is a Company offering a wide range of high standard motor vehicle maintenance, repair and restoration services. The Company deals with a wide range of private and commercial motor vehicles including saloon cars, SUVs, utility vehicles, vans, buses, lorries, trucks, trailers, among many others.

As part of our growth strategy, the Company seeks to recruit a dynamic, passionate, innovative and result orientated professional to fill the below position:

Purpose of the Job

Reporting to the Head of Operations, the Accountant will be responsible for ensuring accuracy in financial transactions, and maintaining compliance with regulations including filing of tax returns. The accountant will play crucial role in budgeting, financial planning, and providing financial information and reports to support business decisions.

Main Responsibilities

• Performing day-to-day financial transactions, including verifying, and recording accounting data in the system.
• Prepare the financial statements including income statements, balance sheets, cashflow and all the other required reports.
• Collaborate with HODs to develop annual and quarterly budgets and budget forecasts, analysis, and reporting.
• Analyze production and operational costs to prepare accurate cost estimates for pricing and budgeting decisions.
• Provide recommendations for cost reduction strategies and operational efficiency
• Collaborating with Management to address significant budgetary variances and recommend corrective action in regards to the same.
• Develop strategies to reduce costs and study service/product pricing to ensure the best possible returns.
• Review documents and transactions to ascertain compliance, accuracy, and reasonableness of the transactions.
• Ensure all financial transactions are properly and timely updated and
• Ensure timely processing of payments and preparation of the weekly payments
• Prepare the weekly and monthly cash flow reports and
• Timely collection of receivables to maintain a healthy cashflow for the
• Prepare and file all statutory and tax returns (monthly, quarterly and annually) – Income tax, VAT, withholding tax, PAYE, NSSF, NHIF etc. and ensure payments to the authorities are made on time as provided by applicable laws.
• Verify, allocate, post and reconcile accounts payable and#
• Perform finance end-month closure process and ensure overall general ledger hygiene by reconciling all balance sheet and PL accounts and following up reconciling items on a timely manner.
• Prepare the interim and final audit files and follow up all audit issues raised by internal and external auditors.
• Maintain proper filing of documents and maintain proper records of all accounting
• Provide accurate and timely reports as required by management and heads of
• Maintaining the company Asset register and ensuring accuracy on all asset files and verification of physical assets.
• Create and promote a positive work environment within the finance team.

Qualification and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or
• 3 – 5 years of experience in a similar
• Proficiency in Microsoft
• Proficiency in accounting software (e.g. QuickBooks, Sage, SAP).