Job Description
St Jude Catholic School is a day school situated in Donholm, Nairobi and majoring on basic education from preschool to junior school. As we expand, we are looking for a vibrant team player with the knowledge of accounting to fill the position of Senior Accountant.
Job Summary
As a Senior Accountant, you will play a crucial role in managing the financial transactions, records, and reports of the organization. You will be responsible for ensuring the accuracy and integrity of financial data, compliance with regulatory requirements, and providing valuable financial insights to support decision-making.
Key Responsibilities
• Preparing financial statements and supporting schedules.
• Preparing the School Annual Budget and monitoring the budget control.
• Ensuring that each transaction has all supporting documentation and check that the documentation is correct.
• Assisting with analyzing financial statements on a monthly basis and report on variances and also ensure the periodic statements, trial balance and reconciliations of suppliers, are correctly prepared.
• Preparing and checking the following statements: -Bank reconciliation statements -Summaries of income and expenditure
• Checking and ensuring the cheques are correctly written before they are presented for signing.
• Ensuring all payments have been properly authorized.
• Ensuring custody of cheques and Local Purchase Order (LPO) books and every movement of these books from the safe are properly accounted for and that they are only used for bona fide payments or orders.
• Ensuring that all the necessary information is ready for the annual audit at the prescribed times.
• Assisting the auditors in carrying out the audit, answer any queries raised and provide any information that may be required for the successful completion of the audit.
• Ensuring all deadlines for submitting reports from the accounts office are met and all matters within the ambit of your juniors are handled in a timely, efficient and professional manner.
• Ensuring that staff payroll administration is verified for accuracy, properly processed and that all statutory payments such as PAYE are made on a timely basis.
• Maintaining all the systems established in the St. Jude Catholic School- Doonholm for the recording and reporting of all transactions. Any other duty as may be assigned by the Headteacher / Principal.
Qualifications
• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounts or Finance.
• A minimum of CPA-IV
• Minimum of 3 years working experience as an Accountant
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Well-organized and committed.
• Creative and innovative.
• Strong moral values and discipline.