Vacancy title:
Accountant

Jobs at:
Foundation Institute of Africa

Deadline of this Job:
20th September 2018

Duty Station:
Nairobi, Kenya

Summary
Date Posted: 4th September2018 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed , Employment Type: Full-Time

Foundation Institute of Africa (FIA) was founded in 2007 as a non-profit making tertiary training institution that seeks to assist needy and deserving youth with limited financial resources acquire quality subsidized higher education. The institution takes pride in having helped over 5000 youths from across the country nature their futures through our sponsorship programs. Foundation Institute of Africa thus aims at bridging the gap in education, by ensuring poverty does not come in the way of any Kenyan youth acquiring quality education.

JOB DETAILS:

To ensure timely fee collection and other financial duties as assigned by the Administrator.

Accountant Job Responsibilities

•  Ensure timely collection of school fees
  
•  Prepare, examine, or analyze accounting records, financial statements, or other financial reports toassess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.
  
•  Develop and provide timely financial accounting reports for management consumption
•  Compute taxes owed and prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting or other tax requirements.
  
•  Analyze business operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations, to project future revenues and expenses or to provide advice.
  
•  Maintain or examine the records pertaining to regulatory agencies.
  
•  Advise management about issues such as resource utilization, tax strategies, and the assumptions underlying budget forecasts.
  
•  Represent the school in discussions with the revenue authority and provide support during litigation involving financial issues.
  
•  Ensure timely fees collection
  
•  Manage petty cash
  
•  Manage all salary payments and deductions eg NSSF, NHIF
  

Key Performance Measures:

•  Timely collection and banking of school fees
  
•  100% clear, complete and comprehensive record keeping eg petty cash transactions, bills, invoices
  
•  The school meets the statutory tax requirements
  
•  Timely submission of reports to the Finance Officer
  

Qualifications for the Accountant Job

•  Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration,BCOM or equivalent
  
•  CPA II and above.
  
•  Strong analytical and organizational skills
  
•  Ability to prepare standard financial reports on a regular basis
  
•  Proven computer literacy in Microsoft Office or related programs
  
•  Experience in using financial accounting packages and working in a computerized environment
  
•  Proven ability to work well with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders and to act ethically
  
•  Strong work ethic, based on proactive planning and personal responsibility
  
•  Customer service skills
  
•  Over 5 years of relevant work and progressive experience preferably gained through working in a busy service oriented organization
  

Personal Attributes

•  Critical thinking skills
  
•  Trustworthiness
  
•  Undoubted integrity
  
•  Time management skills
  
•  Good communication skills