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Assistant Accountant
Job Purpose:
The job holder is responsible for performing financial analysis, financial reporting and budgeting for Britam General and Corporate.
Key responsibilities:
- Perform Monthly GL and FAR reconciliation.
- Perform monthly asset additions per Business Unit as outlined in the supplier invoice.
- Check for completeness and accuracy of fixed assets sub ledger and month-end closing activities such as account reconciliations, journal entries and adjustments.
- Retrieve support documents for additions and disposals within the years for audit purpose.
- Lauch and follow up claims pertaining lost assets with the insurance company.
- Monitoring and ensure that company assets are tagged before dispatch to the branches or put in use.
- Ensure all company assets are insured and their respective cost mapped to each asset category.
- Ensure that the Fixed Asset Register Manual is updated to reflect the proper accounting.
- Maintain proper fixed asset register aligned to the respective Business units.
- Assist in yearly fixed asset financial audit.
- Coordinate and lead yearly asset verifications in both head office and branches.
- Ensure adherence to financial regulations, policies and procedures during assets disposals and retirement from Fixed asset register.
- Collaborate with other units to monitor asset disposals and movements within the group.
- Monthly closure of FA module after all the additions in a month have been done per Business Unit.
- Be Involved in technology upgrades within ERP and changes related to fixed asset maintenance.
- Provide support to audit processes by providing relevant schedules, listings and reconciliations as and when required.
- Organize and maintain fixed asset documentations for references in the shared folder.
- Delegated Authority: As per the approved Delegated Authority Matrix.
Key Performance Measures:
- As described in your Personal Scorecard.
Knowledge, experience and qualifications required
- Bachelor’s degree in a business-related field.
- CPA(K) or other similarly recognized accounting profession qualification.
- 3 – 5 years of accounting experience in a similar role.
- Knowledge of ERP AP system and/or experience of using Oracle Financials would be an advantage.
- Strong computer and business solutions software skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Analytical skills.
Technical/ Functional competencies:
- Knowledge of insurance regulatory requirements.
- Knowledge of insurance products.
- Sales and marketing management skills.
IT Applications Value Delivery Analyst
Job Purpose:
To identify business requirements and develop solutions (database design, workflows, user/data interfaces, integrations) and design, development, and 2nd line support of business Applications, ranging from user analysis, design and development to implementation and maintenance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Configure and/or customize business applications to meet business requirements using various database and software tools.
- Assist in presentations of system functionality to new users and departments. Drives systems adoption by business users.
- Enhance and create user and system documentation as needed.
- Work directly with the IT support personnel and teams to resolve issues identified and escalated during daily operations.
- Perform the necessary technical design and development functionality to ensure that business application systems can be effectively developed and implemented.
- Design and development of front-end tier(s), middle tier(s), and /or back-end database tier(s) for business applications.
- Capturing of business applications information needs and mapping of the same to the software and /or database components.
- Perform data modelling to analyze and specify data structures within an application system.
- Developing database objects and structures for data storage, retrieval and reporting according to specifications.
- Implementing and testing database design and functionality and tuning for performance.
- Research and provide input on design approach, performance and base functionality improvements for various procedures and applications.
- Generation of ideas to improve efficiency in software and application services offered to the business, and/or generate revenue for business.
- Delegated Authority: As per the approved Delegated Authority Matrix.
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Key Performance Measures:
As described in your Personal Score Card.
Knowledge, experience and qualifications required
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or technical-related field.
- 4 – 6 years experience in application development, which includes system customization and report designs.
- 2 years experience with RDMS preferably MS SQL Server, Oracle, and MySQL.
- Certified in IT.
- Have knowledge of data analysis and analytics, Mobile infrastructure, Internet technologies, e-commerce and e-payment technologies.
- Experience in process automation using robotics.
- Membership to relevant IT societies.