Senior Accountant Jobs recruitment in Kenya 2013
Senior Accountant
Job Purpose: Ensures the integrity of accounting information by recording, verifying, consolidating, and entering transactions.
Job Duties:
- Preparation of financial statements, supporting schedules and variance analysis.
- Analyse financial statements on a monthly basis and report on variances
- Analyse revenues, commissions and expenses to ensure they are recorded appropriately on a monthly basis
- Facilitate and complete monthly close procedures
- Oversee Accounts Payable to include invoice review, coding, approval and ensuring timely payments
- Prepare monthly account reconciliations
- Maintain payroll general ledger
- Assist with developing budgets
- Provide technical support and advice on management
- Review and recommend modifications to accounting systems and procedures
- Prepare tax returns and make other statutory remittances
- Assist in documentation and monitoring of internal controls
- Avoid legal challenges by complying with legal requirements
- Secure financial information by completing database backups
- Plan, assign and review junior accounting staff’s work
- Prepare for and liaise with external auditors for financial and tax audits
- Coordinate with contracted service providers to ensure timely business license renewals
- Perform other duties as and when required
Desired Skills & Qualities:
- Bachelor’s or higher degree in Accounting or Finance
- Accounting Professional Qualification
- 5+ years accounting/finance experience
- Experience in the FMCG/Consumer Goods industry preferred
- Detail oriented and organized in work
- Ability to meet assigned deadlines
- Must be an Asian
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a customer service focus
- Ability to act and operate independently with minimum supervision
- Proficiency with the use of accounting software
- Ability to work cooperatively and collaboratively with all levels of employees, management, and
- external agencies to maximize performance, creativity, problem solving, and results
Send your detailed CV to admin@marsltd.co.ke