Management Accountant

To ensure the timely and accurate preparation of the monthly financial information and annual budgets for use by Management and key stakeholders.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Co-ordinates the preparation of the annual Hospital budgets i.e., the income expenditure budget, capital expenditure budget, cash flow budget and balance sheet.
• Co-ordinates the preparation of Budget Implementation Action Plans.
• Ensures monthly financial reports and information to the Management, Finance Committee and Board of Management are prepared on a timely basis.
• Tracking and reporting of departmental performance on periodic basis.
• Lead costing activities for services and procedures.
• Prepares periodical forecasts.
• Ensures that appropriate procedures and accounting systems are in place and are fully always understood and complied with.
• Supports the auditing exercises by providing required information to both internal and external auditors.
• Liaises actively with fellow Accountants in ensuring completeness and accuracy of Management Accounts reporting.
• Reconciles income in the Management Accounts between the ERP and the General Ledger.
• Fixed assets management i.e. update register, manage disposals, reconcile asset ledgers with asset register etc
• Inventory management i.e. coordinate stock take exercises, reconcile inventory ledgers with physical inventory, monitor expired/near expiry and obsolete inventory and adjust for the same.
• Ensures the General Ledger reconciliations are performed monthly.
• Ensuring all tax obligations (if any) are filed in accordance with the prevailing KRA requirements.

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor of Commerce, Business Administration, or related degree with a major in Accounting.
• Expert knowledge of accounting, auditing, financial and management reporting.
• Computer literate and conversant with computerized accounting packages.

Professional Qualification

• Professional qualifications such as Certified Public Accountants (CPA) K/ACCA or CFA.

Job Experience

• Six (6) years progressive working experience in accounting with at least three at a senior level.

Membership

• Membership with Institute of Certified Public Accountant of Kenya.

Key Competencies – Skills/ Knowledge/ Aptitude

• Good oral and written communication skills
• The ability to work as part of a team
• Excellent analytical and numerical abilities
• Sound business knowledge
• Accuracy and an eye for detail.
• Professional ethics and values.
• Predictive and forecasting skills.
• Great interpersonal skills
• Time Management skills