Senior Accountant

We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Senior Accountant to join our dynamic finance team. The Senior Accountant will play a key role in maintaining accurate financial records, preparing reports, and ensuring compliance with accounting standards and company policies. This position is responsible for overseeing general accounting activities, month-end and year-end close processes, and providing valuable financial insights to senior management

Principal Accountabilities/Key result areas:

General Ledger

• • Responsible for all journal entries to general ledger accounts
  • Reconciling general ledger to ensure they represent the true position of the company as they appear on the trial balance.
  • Reconciling cashbook and bank statements
  • Perform bank transactions, initiate payments for online
  • Support in maintaining and reconciling petty cash book, payment vouchers and receipts for all cash issued out.
  • Properly recording and managing refunds and credit notes from
  • Conducting accurate transfers of stocks to different sales outlets, ensuring proper documentation is recorded, reconciled and signed by the recipient receiving the goods.
  • Manage and control staff imprest issued to relevant departmental

Costing

• • Working in consultation with the procurement team to ensure accurate cost for all products are captured.
  • Cost of sales computation (bills of materials in tally)

Receivables

• • Reconciliation of all sales and cash daily and ensuring variances are captured immediately
  • Posting of payments received from sales teams to theProcessing and posting vendors invoices to the accounting system

Payable

• Preparing of monthly WTH, VAT, Statutory and other taxation
• Posting of all supplier invoices and confirming that invoice details are well captured & tally with the booking vouchers and purchase orders.
• Ensuring each payment has an ETR, invoice and acknowledgement receipt from
• Properly recording and managing refunds and credit notes from
• Maintaining a list of outgoing payments and confirming they tick against invoices or payment vouchers.
• Confirm the accuracy of supplier invoices by ensuring all supporting documents including delivery notes and lpos authorizing the expenses are in order.
• Preparation and ensuring timely payments g. service providers, government bodies, general expenses.

INVENTORY

• Support in stock management and
• Ensuring stocks are reconciled daily for sales outlets, trucks and warehouse to match with system stock.
• Ensuring variances are captured immediately, concern raised to immediate parts involved and action taken.
• Support in inventory and asset
• Conducting accurate transfers of stocks to different sales outlets, ensuring proper documentation is recorded, reconciled and signed by the recipient receiving the goods.

GENERAL

• Support in setting and implementing internal controls and SOPs in finance
• Ensure all finance transactions are properly
• Act as a point of liaison with internal and external parties to Mwingi Kenya
• Preparing Financial
• Has to be conversant with Tally Prime Accounting system.

Competence for this role - Knowledge; Skills and Experience required for this Role

• A Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Business or related field from a recognized university
• Qualified Certified Public Accountant (CPA K) or ACCA
• Member of a professional
• Minimum of 4 years’ experience preferably in a FMCG or manufacturing
• Goal-oriented and has a deep knowledge of accounting and reporting standards
• Experience with ledger
• High integrity

How to Apply

Interested and qualified candidates are advised to send an updated CV ONLY