About the employer
A distributor of fast-moving consumer goods, family owned and eighteen years in business, supplying trade customers through three regional depots and a central warehouse. It has added a depot roughly every five years and funds that growth out of trading rather than out of borrowing, which is why the cash cycle gets the attention it does here.
Finance is six people reporting to a financial controller, which is small enough that an assistant sees payables, bank reconciliations and the month-end schedules rather than one corner of the ledger for two years.
The controller is explicit that this is a training seat: CPA papers are funded, study leave comes before each sitting, and the path to Accountant is defined as two years rather than left to be asked about. Both of the current accountants sat here first.
Job Description
- Process supplier invoices against the purchase order and the goods received note, and resolve the exceptions
- Prepare the weekly payment run with supporting documentation for review
- Reconcile bank and mobile money accounts daily and clear reconciling items within the week
- Raise and issue EFRIS invoices and credit notes, and keep the URA records aligned to the ledger
- Maintain the fixed asset register, run the depreciation schedules and tag new additions
- Prepare month-end schedules for the financial controller: accruals, prepayments and creditor listings
- Support the annual audit with the samples, schedules and files it asks for
Ascendradoes not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, refugee status, marital status, or based on an individual’s status in any group or class protected by applicable law. Ascendra encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, refugees and all other qualified applicants.
The Successful Applicant
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Commerce, Finance or Business Administration
- CPA Part I, or registration for it, is an advantage rather than a requirement
- Working knowledge of a general ledger package such as QuickBooks, Tally, Sage or Navision
- Familiarity with EFRIS and the VAT and withholding treatments that run through it
- Spreadsheet skill beyond typing numbers into cells: lookups, pivot tables and a clean schedule
- Understanding of double entry well enough to explain a posting to somebody who queries it
- Accuracy under a month-end deadline
What is on offer
- CPA papers funded, with study leave before each sitting
- Exposure to the full ledger rather than one corner of it
- A defined path to Accountant within two years
- Medical cover and NSSF
- A named supervisor through the first two month-ends
