Our client is a leading FMCG company in Kenya. They seek to hire a Senior Accountant who will manage and perform daily accounting tasks that will support their financial team

Key Responsibilities:

• To be the point of contact for finance in all operations, sales reporting, expenditure analysis, forecasting, budgeting, and financial accountability.
• Carry out monthly executive reporting on milk rate computation, identifying opportunities for cost savings and revenue improvement.
• Verification of payment vouchers and reconciliation of discrepancies within the books of accounts.
• Responsible for the preparation and presentation of monthly management reports.
• Responsible for the preparation of the annual budget statement and performing monthly variance reviews.
• Responsible for Cash flow management & short-term funding requirements.
• Oversee bank reconciliations for assigned M-pesa tills and bank accounts.
• Handling profitability management, product costing, product pricing, capital expenditure planning inventory management, debtors’ management, creditors management, OPEX management, and business unit management.
• Responsible for ensuring the company is compliant on all statutory requirements.
• Contribute to financial systems implementation to ensure compliance with internal financial policies, procedures, control mechanisms, and generally accepted accounting practices.
• Lead the finance team and be a dependable finance business partner across multiple departments.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Economics or related field of study.
• CPA finalist or ACCA.
• Minimum 7 years’ experience and at least 3 years in supervisory role.
• Must have experience in a dairy processing company.
• Strong experience of cost accounting in a manufacturing environment.
• Ability to generate and communicate ad hoc financial reports.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain relationships with people at all levels who represent a variety of diverse backgrounds
• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Planning and organizing abilities
• Strong leadership and teamwork abilities.
• Adaptable with the ability to pro-actively solve problems
• Integrity, with a commitment to service