Our client, a food processing company, is seeking to fill the above role for a short-term reliever engagement.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Maintaining the general ledger by accurately entering and updating financial information, transactions, documentation, and records using the company’s accounting software [Navision] and Microsoft Excel-based database tools
• Accounts Receivable: Maintaining accounts receivable and supporting documents.
• Recording customer invoices, applying cash receipts, following up on collections, and reconciling accounts receivable for the month-end.
• Accounts Payable: Maintaining accounts payable and supporting documentation.
• Process vendor/supplier invoices and payments (net of appropriate VAT/WHT), ensuring accuracy of vendor invoices and pre-requisite internal Management approvals
• Perform a monthly stocktake for the bakery inventory and reconcile any variances between the stocktake, trial balance, and inventory listing from the system.
• Record the inventory movements in the system and reconcile for accuracy and completeness.
• Reconciliation of bank statements and other G/L accounts, identify and resolve discrepancies
• Preparing weekly cash management, inventory management, and other reports 
• Record monthly payroll entries
• Preparing data for month-end, quarterly, and annual financial statements
• Providing general administrative support, including filing, copying, scanning, and managing communication with vendors and customers, as required
• Ensuring compliance with company policies, accounting standards, and controls in all functions and duties

Minimum Requirements:

• Degree/diploma in Accounting
• 4+years’ experience with increasing responsibility and/or promotion working as part of an Accounting or Finance team.
• Working knowledge of fundamental accounting principles
• Available to report immediately

Salary: KES 55,000.00 max