Financial Accountant Job Tatu City

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Tatu is a project of Rendeavour, Africa’s largest urban land developer with over 30,000 acres of visionary projects in the growth trajectories of large cities in Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia and Democratic Republic of Congo. Rendeavour’s vision goes beyond alleviating what is a self-evident problem – that of stifling urban congestion and a dearth of quality housing and commercial property in Africa. Rather, we aim to help create the infrastructure – the living and working spaces, communities, schools and hospitals – that will help sustain and accelerate Africa’s economic growth, meet the aspirations of Africa’s burgeoning middle classes, and serve as a catalyst for further urban development.

Responsibilities:

Financial Accountant to process suppliers’ payments by performing supplier payment reconciliations and processing invoices/credit notes.

Key responsibilities:

• Performing day-to-day financial transactions, including verifying, and recording accounting data in the system.
• Review documents and transactions to ascertain compliance, accuracy, and reasonableness of the transactions.
• Ensure all financial transactions are properly and timely updated and recorded.
• Ensure timely processing of payments and preparation of the weekly payments report.
• Prepare the weekly and monthly cash flow reports and forecasts.
• Prepare and file all statutory and tax returns (monthly, quarterly and annually) – Income tax, VAT, withholding tax, PAYE, NSSF, NHIF etc and ensure payments to the authorities are made on time as provided by applicable laws.
• Perform finance end-month closure process and ensure overall general ledger hygiene by reconciling all balance sheet and PL accounts and following up reconciling items on a timely manner.
• Prepare the financial statements including income statements, balance sheets, cashflows and all the other required reports.
• Prepare the interim and final audit files and follow up all audit issues raised by internal and external auditors.
• Assist departmental heads in the preparation of the annual budgets for the respective units.
• Maintain proper filing of documents and maintain proper records of all accounting transactions.
• Provide accurate and timely reports as required by management and heads of departments.
• Create and promote a positive work environment within the finance team.

Requirements

• Hard skills and experience:
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance
• At least 4 years of experience in a similar role
• CPA finalist
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel
• Proficiency in Accounting software (e.g. QuickBooks, Sage, SAP).

How to Apply

If qualified and up to the challenge, please send your updated resume to recruitment@tatucity.com by 31 January 2025, and indicate ‘Financial Accountant” in the subject line.

Tatu City is an equal opportunity employer and does not to discriminate against any applicant for employment, or any employee based on age, color, sex, disability, national origin, race or religion