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Receptionist

Purpose

The Front Office Executive is responsible for managing the front desk and performing a variety of administrative and clerical tasks. This role serves as the first point of contact for clients, visitors, and staff, ensuring a positive and welcoming experience. The Front Office Executive will also handle incoming calls, coordinate appointments, and provide general office support.

Key Responsibilities

Reception Duties:

  • Keep the frondesk tidy and presentable with necessary materials
  • Greet and welcome visitors in a friendly and professional manner.
  • Answer and forward external incoming phone calls.
  • Handle incoming and outgoing mail, packages, and deliveries.
  • Maintain the reception area, ensuring it is tidy and presentable.
  • Assist with scheduling and coordinating meetings and appointments.
  • Prepare and distribute correspondence, memos, and any other official documents
  • Check, sort and forward emails

Customer Service:

  • Address inquiries from clients and visitors in a courteous and efficient manner.
  • Provide accurate information and direct visitors to the appropriate person or department.
  • Handle and resolve complaints and issues, escalating them to the appropriate person if necessary.

Office Coordination:

  • Maintain office security by following safety procedures and controlling access via the reception desk.
  • Order and manage office supplies and inventory.
  • Assist in planning and organizing firm’s events and meetings.

Record Keeping:

  • Maintain and update firm’s databases and records.
  • Ensure proper documentation and filing of all important documents.

Other Duties:

  • Perform other clerical receptionist duties such as filing, photocopying and transcribing.
  • Assist with special projects and tasks as assigned by management.

Skill & Experience

  • Experience: Proven work experience as a Receptionist, Secretary, or similar role for 1 year
  • Skills:Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).

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Key Responsibilities

  • Coordinating and monitoring annual budgets for management’s decision making and to ensure that revenue and expenditure is kept in line with the budget.
  • Advising management on proper financial planning and control by preparing and producing monthly management accounting reports for decision making.
  • Determine and implement cost accounting procedures and methods.
  • Planning, studying and collecting data to determine costs of business activity such as inventory and labor.
  • Responsible for the preparation and analysis of cost reports; providing management with reports specifying and comparing factors affecting prices and profitability of products.
  • Ensuring minimal variance between actual and standard costs
  • Advising on product profitability and pricing structures, evaluating sanctions and monitoring contract prices renewals
  • Performs various cost analysis procedures and perform cost allocations for distribution and manufacturing
  • Prepare, analyze and report weekly, monthly, quarterly and periodically gross margins by brand and by customer.
  • Prepare detailed account analysis and reconcile sales, cost and inventory and liability accounts by customer channel and category.
  • Assist is various projects aimed at identifying and realizing cost savings.
  • Preparation of financial reports for decision making including the Monthly Budget Control
  • Review standard and actual costs for variances and report variances to management for decision-making purposes.
  • Accumulate and apply overhead costs as required by generally accepted accounting principles
  • Ensure timely submission, accuracy and validity of inventory and gross margin schedules to management.
  • Prepare collateral reporting.
  • Support and assist internal department reporting requirements such as audit schedules, tax schedules and others.
  • Maintain internal control documentation and test internal controls.
  • Also helps in determining pricing of various product.
  • Assist in establishing and reviewing performance standards and measures with a particular emphasis on areas with cost implications.
  • Monitor on a continuing basis organization-wide KPIs to determine performance against targets on cost, productivity, efficiency, quality and timelines.
  • Undertake special projects as and when required to do so by management.

Skill & Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/ Business/ Finance or equivalent is mandatory
  • Minimum 3 years of experience mostly handling General accounting
  • Candidates must possess CIMA/ CPA(K)/ACCA qualification or equivalent
  • High numeric abilities
  • Advanced computer skills
  • Other Desirable Attributes
  • Prior Financial Accounting and/or internal control framework experience is a plus for proper understanding of accounts requirements.

Method of Application

Send your application to vacancies@jantakenya.com

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