Project Accountant at DGRV

Job Vacany

We are hiring: The German Kenyan Cooperative Development NGO is looking for one qualified Kenyan candidate (f/m) for the position of a Project Accountant. Our development project serves the Kenyan cooperative sector and is implemently jointly with Kenyan keyplayers of the ‚Cooperative sector‘ and a German development agency for cooperatives.

The Project Accountant is in charge of the following key areas:

• Carries out accounting on the basis of project accounting softwares (e.g. QuickBooks)
• Prepares monthly budgets and tracking variances, sends records to bookkeeping records to HQmonthly
• Drafts, prepares, updates and controls all kinds of contracts, controls their fulfilment, and initiates payments;

The Project Accountant (f/m) will be based in the project office in Karen/Nairobi.

Starting Date: as soon as possible

Key requirements:

• University degree in financial management and accounting
• Be fully literate with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
• Mandatory excellent knowledge in bookkeeping software ‘Quickbooks’
• Excellent knowledge of English orally and written
• At least 5 years of working experience as accountant