Accounts Assistant Employment in Kenya

Accounts Assistant

Department            : Finance
Supervised by         : Finance & Admin

Role Objective/Summary

Prepare accurate and timely Accounting reports and statements and ensure appropriate accounting control procedures.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Bank Reconciliation

• Posting of payments to suppliers and daily expenses
• Ensuring that all deposits have been posted correctly and make any adjustments where is a problem.
• Posting of all other deposits that don’t appear on the cash book i.e. cash sale deposits are posted to un-deposited fund and therefore it is a must I transfer them from this account to bank account.
• Reconciling the cash book balance with the bank balance

Suppliers

• Receive and verify all invoices as per the daily purchases report after Director’s approval.
• Prepare remittance advice showing how much we owe each supplier we has supplied goods to us during the week on a weekly basis and preparation of cheques for payments.
• Prepare remittance advice after Directors have signed cheques to accompany the cheques to the suppliers showing the amount paid and against which invoices.
• Address any problem that suppliers may have especially concerning payments schedule and reconciliation problems.
• Write all cheques that are issued on LPOs, for example, to Redington Kenya Ltd and NITI computers Ltd

Collection

• Receive all collection cheques from different debtors and make sure that they are banked on time.
• Maintain a collection day book that comprehensively shows the cheques received, the clients name and the amount, and tally the amount received at the end of each day.
• Maintain a cash deposits and transfers book which has daily cash deposits, interbank transfers and swift transfers from clients.

Auditing

• Assist and accord all relevance assistance during periodic audit of company accounts by external auditors.
• Additional duties
• Filling statutory returns for Comp Africa, Dream Investments and Eltech Communications.
• Follow up on daily sales reports from branches and reconciliation for Director’s approval.
• Monitor deliveries by ensuring the delivery register and invoices are updated daily.
• Debtor’s reconciliation.
• Creditors/debtors management.
• Credit card reconciliation.
• Any other duties as assigned by the management.

Requirements

• CPA / ACCA Qualified
• At-least 5 years experience in a similar position
• Computer skills in accounting software especially in sage pastel highly regarded
• Preferably a female
• 28-35YRS
•  Salary Range Gross Kshs. 30,000-40,000
• Start immediately.

Interested candidates can send their CV to

recruitment@workforceassociates.net on the Subject line indicates Account Asst. 

Interested candidate to send their CV on or before 20th May 2012.