Accountant at Corporate Staffing

Key Responsibilities

Accounts Receivables 

• Maintain customer prices in SAP (ERP) and ensure that all the invoices are accurate.
• Manage credit policy and control procedures, and debt collections process management.
• Ensure prompt and proper allocation of customers’ receipts.
• Ensure debtors’ balances are correctly stated and statements promptly sent out to customers.
• Preparation of customer account reconciliations ensuring all variances are investigated and resolved.
• Compute monthly customer discounts and post credit notes for the discounts issued to the customers on time and ensure credit notes are timely posted
• Ensure aged debtors are escalated for action on time.

Accounts Payable

• Preparing daily, weekly, and monthly cash outflows cash requirements forecast and circulate.
• Ensuring invoices and credit notes are correctly matched against respective orders, delivery notes and other supporting documents and approved before payment.
• Ensure appropriate compliance with tax laws on withholding tax, VAT, and other statutory requirements.
• Ensure all supplier accounts including GRNI are reconciled on monthly basis and any issues addressed immediately.
• Ensuring direct invoices are posted to the correct GL accounts and appropriate dimensions.
• Ensuring all creditors are paid within agreed terms and timely allocation of the payments.
• Ensuring all new supplier accounts are appropriately authorized before they are maintained in the system.
• Maintain the company accounting records and ensure that all documents are properly filed correctly.

Inventory and Asset Management

• Maintain and develop monthly stock taking and reconciliation procedures, and inventory variances. Investigations, approvals, and booking on a timely basis.
• Maintain inventory master data and ensure optimum inventory holding.
• Review monthly balance sheet analysis and reconciliation.
• Monthly reconciliation of assigned intercompany accounts ensures timely resolution of issues.
• Prepare timely and accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual stand-alone and consolidated financial statements for internal and external stakeholders.
• Asset tagging, asset master data verification, and updating.

Costing 

• Analyse product margins, pricing trends, and RM costs trends and recommends remedial actions.
• Analyse company costing i.e. costing of imported raw materials and overheads.
• Validate pricing of finished goods and ensure deviations are corrected upon approval.
• Compute accurate and up-to-date product cost information to aid product pricing. 

Business Analysis

• Prepare relevant financial reports to ensure accurate and timely periodic reporting.
• Prepare management expense reports, analyse material variances and give recommendations.
• Posting integration transactions, monthly journals and any other approved transactions.
• Assisting in budgeting and forecasting exercises.
• Any other relevant duty that you may be called upon to perform by your superiors

Key Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, or accounts. 
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in a comparable position
• CPA(K) qualified (Required)
• Experience with SAP is a MUST
• Hands-on financial professional, with practical experience in book-keeping and reporting.
• IT skills in MS Office

How to apply:

If you are up to the challenge and possess the necessary qualifications and experience; please send your CV only quoting the job title on the email subject (Accountant – Manufacturing) to vacancies@corporatestaffing.co.ke before 20th August 2022.