Tuesday, June 28, 2011

XRX Technologies Limited Senior Accountant Job in Kenya

Position: Senior Accountant

Department: Finance

Reports To: Head of Finance

Nature and Scope of the Position

The Chief Accountant is responsible for finance duties and is also in charge of the company’s document Centers (3 retail outlets) as business units.

The position reports to the Head of Finance & Support Services.

Duties

The Senior Accountant is responsible for preparation of management financial reports accurately and on time.
Monitoring the company’s cash-flow in liaison with the Head of Finance.
Deputizing on the Head of Finance.
Responsible for filing of all statutory returns and payment of taxes on time and ensuring that the company has the current compliance certificates and licensing.
Responsible for supervision and control of the general accounting functions: This includes the general ledger, payables, receivables and Fixed Assets.
Overseeing the periodic stock take, variance analysis and reconciliation.
Coordination of interim and annual audits.
Coordinating the budgets/targets for document centers.
Responsible for revenue assurance in all the branches to ensure adherence of internal controls.
To be lead and monitor the performance of the team assigned to her/him in the document centers and finance department.
Managing the Sage Accounting System, ensuring backup is taken on daily basis and secured.
Supervising, motivating and monitoring team performance reporting back to Head of Finance & Support Services.
Providing weekly sales reports per division.
Ensuring safe custody of company financial records.
Supporting the bid teams with financial requirements.
Responsible for the timely and accurate billing of clients.
Maintaining detailed knowledge of the company's products;
Costing and monitoring the landing costs to ensure cost reduction in liaison with the Logistics Manager.
Developing the price book in liaison with the Head of Finance and the Logistics Manager.
Management of the company’s insurance register to ensure that all assets are insured; claims processed in time and mitigate any revenue leakage and risks.
To liaise with other line managers, contribute to the management and overall performance of the Organization.
To undertake other duties as and when requested.

Job Specification

Academic Qualifications

Essential

CPA (K) with 5 Years Experience in ICT Industry OR
Bcom Accounting/Finance Option with 4 Years Experience.

Desired

BCom Finance/Accounting and CPA (K) 4 Years Experience

Experience

4 years in Accounting 2 of which must be in an Accountant’s position.

Work related skills

Good organizational skills
Aggressive and Result Oriented
Able to meet set target on a monthly basis
Able to meet deadlines
Good leadership qualities
Accuracy

Personal attributes

Ability to work under pressure
Trustworthy
Team player
Strong interpersonal skills
Strong customer relation skills

Complexity and difficulty of the work

A demanding job that requires high level of accuracy and integrity

Successful performance standards

To bill on time and accurately 99% of the time.
To ensure that accurate financial reports are submitted by the 8th of every month for onward submission to Managing Director by 10th every month.
To ensure that all the modules of Sage Pastel Evolution System are implemented 100% by end of half 1.
Ensure 98% adherence to the billing process and the controls around the document centers.
Ensure that stock take and the reconciliations are done on monthly basis and any variances explained.
To co-ordinate the annual audit with respective escalations.
To build strong Sales unit for Document Centers able to meet and exceed the revenue targets for the year 2010.
To ensure that our customer satisfaction index exceed 99%in sales related issues

This job description is meant to be only a representative summary of the duties and responsibilities performed by the jobholder.

The jobholder may be requested to perform job-related tasks other than those stated in this description.

The jobholder is expected to perform in a manner consistent with the values and philosophy of “XRX Technologies Limited”

The applications should be sent to careers@xrxtechnologies.co.ke.

Closing date is 1st July 2011

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