Financial Accountant at Tatu City Limited

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Financial Accountant to process suppliers’ payments by performing supplier payment reconciliations and processing invoices/credit notes.

Key responsibilities:

• Performing day-to-day financial transactions, including verifying, and recording accounting data in the system.
• Review documents and transactions to ascertain compliance, accuracy, and reasonableness of the transactions.
• Ensure all financial transactions are properly and timely updated and recorded.
• Ensure timely processing of payments and preparation of the weekly payments report.
• Prepare the weekly and monthly cash flow reports and forecasts.
• Prepare and file all statutory and tax returns (monthly, quarterly and annually) – Income tax, VAT, withholding tax, PAYE, NSSF, NHIF etc and ensure payments to the authorities are made on time as provided by applicable laws.
• Perform finance end-month closure process and ensure overall general ledger hygiene by reconciling all balance sheet and PL accounts and following up reconciling items on a timely manner.
• Prepare the financial statements including income statements, balance sheets, cashflows and all the other required reports.
• Prepare the interim and final audit files and follow up all audit issues raised by internal and external auditors.
• Assist departmental heads in the preparation of the annual budgets for the respective units.
• Maintain proper filing of documents and maintain proper records of all accounting transactions.
• Provide accurate and timely reports as required by management and heads of departments.
• Create and promote a positive work environment within the finance team.

REQUIREMENTS

Hard skills and experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance
• At least 4 years of experience in a similar role
• CPA finalist
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel
• Proficiency in Accounting software (e.g. QuickBooks, Sage, SAP).