Finance Associate
The main purpose of this position is to
provide support to Finance Department in managing Accounts Payable Functions
and ensuring compliance to regulatory requirements.
Key Roles &
Responsibilities:
- Review supplier invoices for accuracy and
relevance before keying in the invoice to the financial system.
- Review supplier invoices for accuracy and
relevance before making payments.
- Make payments to suppliers in a timely manner.
- Reconcile supplier statements and resolve
supplier issues.
- Code payments to appropriate Funds Code
- Capture payments/transactions in the Financial
system.
- Manage staff travel advances and review expense
reports for accuracy, relevance of supporting documents and proper coding.
- Work with Field staff guiding them on how to do
proper expense reports.
- Prepare petty cash reconciliations and other
Balance sheet reconciliations at the end of every month or periodically as
the case maybe.
- Maintain books of account to trial Balance
level- Cash books, Accounts payables\receivables, general ledgers and
other sub ledgers.
- Manage statutory deductions and remit them to
the relevant authorities within deadlines (PAYE, NSSF, NHIF, WHT etc)
- Timesheets managements – conduct preliminary
review of time portal entries to ensure all timesheets are in and that are
free of general errors before a final review by program managers
- Work with HR to ensure time portal vacation
entries reconcile with physical records and analysis maintained by Hr.
- Review of Motor Vehicles mileage logs ensuring
proper operation of the logs.
- Assist during Audits and other reviews in
pulling out documents required by internal/external Auditors.
- Process M-pesa payments
- Work with procurement to develop a supplier
database.
- Work with procurement to ensure all supplier
agreements are in place.
- Work with finance to develop various analyses as
may be guided from time to time.
- Work with Finance on fixed assets.
- Label Files and documents in a sequential order.
- Other responsibilities assigned by the Senior
Accountant.
Required Skills, Knowledge,
Experience and Abilities:
- University degree (Bcom/Finance) and CPA II or
- CPA finalist and undertaking the degree course
- At least 2 years’ experience working in a busy
accounts department
- Familiar with computerized accounting programs,
Knowledge of NAV or Dynamic Business Central would be an added advantage
- Accurate, thorough, able to meet deadlines
- Maintain high levels of confidentiality in
relation to sensitive and confidential financial information and
decisions.
How to Apply
