Accounting Compliance and Reporting Senior at Ernst & Young

The opportunity

We are looking for a senior accountant to join our robust ACR team.

Your key responsibilities

The work mainly involves working with the ACR team by carrying out the following tasks:-

Senior Accountant Roles:

• Ensure clients’ invoices, payments, payroll journals and other financial transactions are booked in Microsoft Business Central accounting software.
• Ensure prepayments are expensed monthly (rent, insurance etc.)
• Fixed asset accounting and management (i.e. update fixed assets registers and schedules, depreciation expense, control fixed asset movement).
• Ensure that required provisions and accruals are captured and posted done in the accounting system.
• Ensure monthly vendor reconciliations are completed.
• Create new vendors and customers where required.
• Preparing regular reports such as trial balance, statements of financial position, financial performance, changes in equity and cash flows.
• Send out remittance advices when payments are done.
• Ensure monthly bank reconciliations are done in the accounting system.
• Ensure necessary accruals & provisions are taken and the schedules updated monthly
• Perform monthly vendor aging analysis.
• Prepare month end closing and month end reports for our clients
• Prepare statutory financial statements in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) and the Kenya Companies Act, 2015.
• Coordinate annual audits on behalf of accounting/bookkeeping clients.
• Working with clients to come up with required journals to ensure compliance with IFRSs.
• Support managers and partners in growing EY business such as in drafting potential client’s proposals, billings and debtors’ collections.
• Supervise and train assistant accountants.
• Update clients on new and amended financial accounting and reporting standards.

Senior Payroll Consultant’s roles:

• Ensuring that all monthly data input is received from clients.
• Any roll forward data input is captured and back- up taken from the previous month.
• Ensure that PAYE is computed correctly and in accordance with prevailing tax laws.
• Ensure that monthly reports are generated and shared with manager for reviews.
• Send the reviewed payroll reports to client’s contacts on time.
• Process net salaries on the client’s online banking system accurately and on time
• Issue pay slips on time.
• Ensure that the statutory payments are processed as per their due dates
• File all relevant statutory deductions (PAYE, NSSF, NHIF, AHL, HELB and NITA) on or before the due dates.
• Update clients on changes in regulatory, payroll taxes and statutory social security.
• Prepare and issue clients fee invoices on a monthly basis.

Skills and attributes for success

How your skills and experience will make an impact, followed by sub-headings:

To qualify for the role, you must have: -

• A Bachelor’s degree in either Economics/Business/Finance or a related field with a minimum of upper second-class honours or its equivalent
• A minimum overall grade of a B and B in both English & Mathematics at Secondary School level
• Professional qualification in accounting (ACCA, CPA or CA Finalist)
• SAP/BC18/Navision/Pastel/Quick books Knowledge or its equivalent
• Computerised accounting skills
• Proficiency in payroll software packages such as VIP or PaySpace
• Advanced Excel knowledge and macros
• Hands on iTax knowledge
• Exemplary communication and interpersonal skills
• 5 years hands on experience in monthly management reports, payrolls, annual audit and preparation of statutory financial statements in accordance with IFRSs

Ideally, you’ll also have

Working experience in Accounting/Finance department for at least 5 years or more with hands on experience with computerized Accounting Systems like ERPs e.g., NAVISION,BC 18, SAGE and payroll computerized payroll systems.

What we look for

A person who is:

• Able to prioritize, multi-task and work independently
• Proactive
• Attentive to detail
• Agile and curious to learn
• Discrete & Honest