Senior Accountant Jobs Description
Janta Kenya is a HR Consultancy firm established with an objective of encompassing integral and necessary skills that most individuals and organizations need in everyday business.
- Company: Janta Kenya
- Location: Kenya
- State: Nairobi
- Job type: Full-Time
- Job category: Accounting Jobs in Kenya - Janta Kenya Jobs in Kenya.
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Key Responsibilities
- Coordinating and monitoring annual budgets for management’s decision making and to ensure that revenue and expenditure is kept in line with the budget.
- Advising management on proper financial planning and control by preparing and producing monthly management accounting reports for decision making.
- Determine and implement cost accounting procedures and methods.
- Planning, studying and collecting data to determine costs of business activity such as inventory and labor.
- Responsible for the preparation and analysis of cost reports; providing management with reports specifying and comparing factors affecting prices and profitability of products.
- Ensuring minimal variance between actual and standard costs
- Advising on product profitability and pricing structures, evaluating sanctions and monitoring contract prices renewals
- Performs various cost analysis procedures and perform cost allocations for distribution and manufacturing
- Prepare, analyze and report weekly, monthly, quarterly and periodically gross margins by brand and by customer.
- Prepare detailed account analysis and reconcile sales, cost and inventory and liability accounts by customer channel and category.
- Assist is various projects aimed at identifying and realizing cost savings.
- Preparation of financial reports for decision making including the Monthly Budget Control
- Review standard and actual costs for variances and report variances to management for decision-making purposes.
- Accumulate and apply overhead costs as required by generally accepted accounting principles
- Ensure timely submission, accuracy and validity of inventory and gross margin schedules to management.
- Prepare collateral reporting.
- Support and assist internal department reporting requirements such as audit schedules, tax schedules and others.
- Maintain internal control documentation and test internal controls.
- Also helps in determining pricing of various product.
- Assist in establishing and reviewing performance standards and measures with a particular emphasis on areas with cost implications.
- Monitor on a continuing basis organization-wide KPIs to determine performance against targets on cost, productivity, efficiency, quality and timelines.
- Undertake special projects as and when required to do so by management.
Skill & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/ Business/ Finance or equivalent is mandatory
- Minimum 3 years of experience mostly handling General accounting
- Candidates must possess CIMA/ CPA(K)/ACCA qualification or equivalent
- High numeric abilities
- Advanced computer skills
- Other Desirable Attributes
- Prior Financial Accounting and/or internal control framework experience is a plus for proper understanding of accounts requirements.