Gross Salary: 100,000-120,000

Our client is a cleaning Manufacturing Sector seeking a highly skilled Senior Accountant responsible for the accounting and administrative functions.

About the Client:

A cleaning solutions provider focusing on manufacturing high quality products and solutions. It produces a wide range of products for commercial and industrial use.

Requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelors’ Degree in Finance/Accounting or equivalent qualification from recognized institution.
• CPA(K)
• At least four (4) years’ work experience.

Competencies and Skills

• High interpersonal skills
• Excellent reporting and presentation skills
• Great organization and time management skills
• Keen on detail with a high degree of accuracy
• High Integrity
• Team player
• Ability to work in a team
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills
• Great Analytical Skills

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Ensuring that the general functions of the accounts department are run smoothly.
• Preparation and collection of accurate data for Budget preparation.
• Overseeing the preparation of the monthly management reports.
• Reconciliation of Ledger accounts (manage the general Ledger) by ensuring accurate and complete entries are passed by other departmental staff.
• Thorough knowledge of product costing to achieve accurate and reliable cost.
• Managing and supervising other departmental staff by ensuring that assigned responsibilities and tasks are acted upon.
• Reviewing and ensuring Full end-of-month procedures are effected.
• Assisting in the timely preparation of the end-of-year audit.
• Ensure that all fixed assets are safeguarded through asset tagging by the responsible staff in the department.
• Ensure that the internal controls and procedures in place are effected. Help in identifying problems requiring managerial action. Escalate where controls are not being followed.
• Preparing, submitting and ensuring all statutory obligations are met.
• Compute taxes owed and prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting and other tax requirements.
• Survey operations to ascertain accounting needs and to recommend, develop, and maintain solutions to business and financial problems.
• Review and advise the directors on the accounting and business approaches to ensure that they are in agreement with existing accounting policies and procedures and within the legal framework.
• Management of company’s financial resources, including accounting, management information systems (MIS) and procurement to ensure profitable management of the resources.
• preparation of operational plans, ensuring adequate resources for implementation and adequate resources to provide support to the budgeted activities.
• Preparation of Annual Reports and Management accounts e.g.  annual budgets, internal accounts reports for the Director.
• Ensure that all transactions are properly accounted for.
• Banking for the organization; cheque and cash withdrawals and deposits.
• Continue to develop improvements in the accounting system, as necessary.
• Supervision of credit control function ensuring timely debt collection
• Processing of supplier payments in accordance with laid down procedures or contracts signed with suppliers
• Effect work related advances and carry out reconciliations.
• Accurately allocate costing codes to the right items.
• Collect and examine supporting documents; ensure that documents and signatures are valid.
• Prepare cheque, payment vouchers and receipt vouchers and ensure that they are properly delivered.
• Maintain float and advance registers.
• Be responsible for petty cash held in the office, prepare petty cash vouchers, issue petty cash for purchase requests and make payment from petty cash based on signed receipts e.g. taxi, medical reimbursements, small emergency purchases and prepare Petty Cash Replenishment Form, and request additional cash as necessary.
• Carry out cash count oftenly as required.
• Ensure all accounting records are up to date, well stored and easily retrievable.
• Make payments and receive cash for the office operations.
• Forward suppliers’ payment documentation for approval.
• Payments for utilities are done on a timely basis.
• Assist in the production of the monthly accounts (specifically, produce the cashbooks and the analyzed cashbooks for the office).
• Liaise with the service providers for fast and effective services.
• Order and maintain relevant office supplies to ensure the smooth running of the office.
• Undertaking any other duties that may be assigned.