Senior Accountant

The Senior Accountant will ensure the compliance, internal controls, adherence to financial policies and procedures, completeness, accuracy, timeliness and proper record keeping of transactions related to organizational revenues, receivables, payables, payroll, and tax filings

Qualification and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
  
• CPA(U) and or ACCA certification
  
• 5+ consecutive 5 years of experience as an accounting manager or senior accounting position
  
• Experience in managing a small accounts team of 4-5 staff
  
• Experience in preparing financial statements, reconciliations and preparing for audit.
  
• Work experience in a school would be an added advantage
  

• Ensure student registers are updated for enrollment by all schools and verify the accuracy of student enrolment numbers on a weekly basis. Very all new enrolments on a weekly basis with the Admissions office and
  
• Verify that revenue accountants are generating invoices based on accurate student enrolment, that all bank deposits are reconciled on a daily basis with student registers, receipts are generated daily, and there are no uncredited deposits at the end of every week.
  
• Generate and verify revenue entries for the accounting system, obtain sign off from the CFO, and ensure accurate postings in the accounting system.
  

• Put in place a payments’ tracking system. Approve and monitor payments to ensure payments are done in accordance with targets for processing time, and in accordance with the procurement and finance policies. Take corrective action with staff when target times are exceeded.
  
• Ensure VAT filings are done in a timely manner, respond to any URA queries and ensure collections from URA are done in a timely manner and posted accurately in the accounting information system.
  
• Reconcile all payables accounts on a monthly basis and propose resolution of long-standing outstanding balances. Resolve brought-forward balances with suppliers as needed, particularly with utility companies
  

• Ensure the fixed assets register (with full information) is updated and in line with the accounting information system records
  
• Update the depreciation expense as per the fixed assets schedule on a monthly basis
  
• Ensure that all assets in all the units are properly tagged and insured.
  

• Assist during budget exercise to in the completion of budget templates, follow up on timely collection of data on budgetary assumptions in liaison with the relevant units/ departments.
  
• Assist in the generation of periodic financial reports (monthly/quarterly/annual)
  
• Timely prepare schedules for internal, interim and annual audits and support completion of annual statutory audit of financial statements