Male Asian Gujarati Speaking Preferred.
This is a highly demanding role responsible for overseeing the company's financial accounting, monitoring and reporting systems; ensuring compliance of financial statements with IFRS and IAS policies and procedures and guidelines and professional ethics.
This role requires a high degree of self confidence and resilience to handle a high stress, high pressure environment which demands long working hours and constant crisis management.
The role holder is expected to perform undertake the following duties:
This is a highly demanding role responsible for overseeing the company's financial accounting, monitoring and reporting systems; ensuring compliance of financial statements with IFRS and IAS policies and procedures and guidelines and professional ethics.
This role requires a high degree of self confidence and resilience to handle a high stress, high pressure environment which demands long working hours and constant crisis management.
The role holder is expected to perform undertake the following duties:
- Compiling and preparing company annual budget and ongoing budget monitoring and reporting
- Preparation of annual and management accounts;
- Ensuring timely preparation of accurate monthly expenditure reports
- Monitoring and interpreting cash flows and proactively managing the financial position of the company and predicting future trends
- Researching and reporting on factors influencing business performance
- Participate in internal audits as scheduled and provide auditors with accounting documents as requested and provide explanation on audit queries
- Performance analysis and reporting
- Supervising and appraising the performance of assigned staff
Minimum Criteria:
- An undergraduate degree in Finance or Accounting; CPA(K) ACCA or its equivalent
- Over 5 years post qualification experience in a similar or related position
- Experience in a business/commercial environment with demonstrable entrepreneurial and business skills
- Strong financial numeracy and analytical skills with ability to interpret financial data
- Working knowledge of Kenyan tax laws and excellent knowledge of local and international financial regulations and legislation
- Excellent technical knowledge of budgeting and financial analysis processes in a commercial set up
- Excellent and effective communications skills, both orally and in writing and ability to effectively engage the business owners in matters pertaining the company
- Well developed ability to multi-task and handle multiple ongoing issues concurrently
- Ability to take charge and control over varied situations that emerge in the department and ‘think on their feet’ for solutions to problems
- Excellent interpersonal skills and strong personal impact to command respect with internal and external stakeholders
- High degree of honesty and integrity
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Corporate Staffing Services
Suite 3, 13th floor, Development House, Nairobi.
Email: jobs@staff-kenya.com
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