Payables Accountant. Job - Beverages Company

A company dealing with importation and distribution of beverages throughout Kenya wishes to recruit a highly proactive, self driven individual to fill the position of Payables Accountant.

Job Summary

Reporting to the Finance Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for.
1. Raising Cheques to suppliers upon receipt of duly approved purchase requests or invoices due for payment, reconcile the payments to purchase ledger and suppliers statements.
2. Verification of all supplier invoices before posting into the Accounting system and ensuring that all supporting documents have been obtained and invoices authorized before payments are processed.
3. Corresponding with local suppliers and reconciling their account balances against the creditors’ ledger.
4. Managing petty cash and preparing financial reports which include suppliers ageing analysis, treasury report etc.

Person Specifications:
• A University degree in Finance or Accounting.
• A qualified Accountant with CPA (K), ACCA or CIMA.
• Minimum of 3 years continuous experience as a payables Accountant.
• Possess excellent reporting, organization skills and unquestionable integrity
• He /she must be self driven with a “can do” attitude and passion to achieve results under minimum supervision.
• Computer literate and able to produce and present financial reports.

Qualified and interested applicants may send their applications and CV’s to the following address so as to be received latest by 18th August 2011:

firmrecruits@gmail.com