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Financial Accountant
Job Purpose/Mission
An Accountant leads auditing financial documents and procedures, reconciling bank statements and calculating tax payments and returns. To be successful in this role, you should have previous experience with bookkeeping and a flair for spotting numerical mistakes
Responsibilities
- Manage all accounting transactions.
- Prepare budget forecasts.
- Publish financial statements in time.
- Handle monthly, quarterly, and annual closings.
- Reconcile accounts payable and receivable.
- Ensure timely bank payments.
- Compute taxes and prepare tax returns.
- Manage balance sheets and profit/loss statements.
- Report on the company’s financial health and liquidity.
- Audit financial transactions and documents.
- Reinforce financial data confidentiality and conduct database backups when necessary.
- Comply with financial policies and regulations.
Knowledge and skills
Experience:
- Holder of CPA, ACCA, or other accounting related certification.
- Knowledge of Excel spread sheets and data entry skills.
- Minimum experience of 5 year in accounting.
- Proven critical thinking skills that demonstrate fact finding/analysis and sound decision making.
- Excellent communications skills both written and verbal.
- Detail oriented and well-organized.
- Self-Drive and Ability to balance multiple tasks while working under tight deadlines with close attention to detail, accuracy, and quality at all times.
- Open to work in a flexible and creative work environment with fast-evolving operations
- Experience working in a Pay-go set up will be an added advantage
- A positive attitude is a must for this role.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher diploma in Accounting, Banking and Finance or another related field.
Language:
- English + ability to speak at least one local language.
Technology:
- Ability to use basic Microsoft tools (Word & Excel).
- Experience in using SAP.
- Basic analyzing skills and power point presentations skills would be an added advantage.
Stock Accountant
Job Purpose/Mission
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The Stock Accountant is responsible for ensuring proper management of company’s inventory/ stock items. Maintains and updates the stock records, responsible for conducting physical stock counts, perform regular stock reconciliations and overall monitoring of stock transactions. Working closely under the Procurement/Finance/Customer Experience/Commercial departments
Responsibilities
- Implement and enforce inventory policies, procedures, adopt appropriate technology, ERP workflows and internal controls
- Diagnose and resolve causes of inventory variances/discrepancies
- Collate, document and report all variances reported during receipt of goods from suppliers/ inter warehouse transfers and ensure proper adjustments are done after approval by Head of Finance, Head of Operations and Country Directtor.
- Perform weekly stock reconciliations of physical counts against system for all categories of inventory at mysol shops and stock points and highlight variances to the head of finance and head of operations.
- Perform monthly stock reconciliations of physical counts against system for all categories of inventory at the warehouse and all stock holding locations (shops, stock points and 3PD) and highlight variances to the head of finance, head of commercial, head of customer experience and head of operations.
- Oversee and coordinate physical inventory counts of goods (monthly and cycle counts) for all locations along with regular inspections to identify discrepancies and ways to improve inventory management
- Carry out spot checks (inventory ad hoc audits) on stock balances in all stock holding locations as against the system records to capture any anomalies.
- Ensure that goods received by warehouse team are matched with the actual invoices and packing list from the suppliers
- Reconcile stock deliveries to selling locations (shops/stock points/3PDs) with stock orders and raise non-conformity reports where applicable
- Diagnose and resolve causes of inventory variances/discrepancies
- Coordinate with warehouse team to implement and ensure proper control systems and procedures to reduce theft, damage, breakage, and inventory obsolescence.
- Quarterly review and reporting on Inventory Ageing analysis report and implementing agreed/recommended actions.
- Manage the monthly financial close for inventories.
- Monitor implementation of inventory policies and procedures.
- Assist the Head of Finance in other relevant tasks as assigned.
Knowledge and skills
Experience:
- Minimum 3 Years’ experience in Stock accounting and management is an added advantage.
- Good understanding of stock related operational and control requirements
- Excellent computer skills with proficiency in MS Excel.
- Good communication skills in both oral and written forms
- Ability to deliver excellent results under minimum supervision.
- Keen eye for details
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance/Business.
- Minimum CPA Part 2
Language(s):
- English
- Kiswahili
Method of Application
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