Senior Management Accountant
2025-07-21T06:33:26+00:00
Inkomoko
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FULL_TIME
Kenya
Nairobi
00100
Kenya
Professional Services
Accounting & Finance
2025-07-31T17:00:00+00:00
Kenya
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We are seeking a detail-oriented and experienced Senior Management Accountant to join our finance team. This individual will be responsible for overseeing financial planning, reporting, analysis, and strategic decision support.
The Senior Management Accountant will work closely with the Accounting & Reporting Manager to ensure accurate financial data, provide insights for business decisions, and contribute to the enhancement of finance systems and processes.
Financial Oversight:
- Conduct a thorough review of company trial balances for mis-postings, unposted transactions, or other errors, working closely with Country Finance Managers to resolve them.
- Tracking investments in subsidy and Intercompany reconciliations, and coordinating settlements with the Treasury Team.
- Monitor month-on-month consistency of account balances and transaction classes.
- Tie all opening balances to audited financial statements.
Reporting & Analytics
- Prepare the internal management accounts
- Focus on providing insights into performance metrics, cost analysis and management reporting to CSuite.
- Provide cost analysis per location, activities, projects, staff costs, trend analysis
- Perform the variance analysis and play a key role in performance management, cost control, and operational decision support.
- Can also prepare the detailed budgets, forecasts and financial analysis to support strategic decision making.
- Tracking investments in subsidy and Intercompany reconciliations
- Advise on the financial implications of business decisions and develop actionable recommendations.
Compliance & Risk Management
- Analyse and manage business risks, including non-compliance costs, ensuring cases are followed up and corrected promptly.
General Duties
- Undertake additional responsibilities as assigned by management.
Requirements
Who We Are Looking For;
Successful candidates will have both technical skills in finance, plus alignment with company vision and values. Successful candidates must navigate fast-paced environments with enthusiasm and incredible attention to details. Minimum qualifications include:
- A degree in Commerce, Finance, Economics
- At least 7 years of experience in a busy accounting environment, with Big 4 accounting/auditing experience as an added advantage.
- Strong knowledge of financial systems
- Proven experience in preparing reports and dashboards for senior management.
- Demonstrated experience in automating financial processes.
- Proficiency in data management tools, including Power BI and other financial reporting tools.
- Familiarity with accounting standards and a deep understanding of ERP systems such as Odoo, SAP, or Oracle.
- Project management experience is a plus.
- Technology-savvy with a proven ability to work with financial models and system implementation.
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Vacancy title:
Senior Management Accountant
[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Professional Services, Category: Accounting & Finance]
Jobs at:
Inkomoko
Deadline of this Job:
Thursday, July 31 2025
Duty Station:
Kenya | Nairobi | Kenya
Summary
Date Posted: Monday, July 21 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
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JOB DETAILS:
We are seeking a detail-oriented and experienced Senior Management Accountant to join our finance team. This individual will be responsible for overseeing financial planning, reporting, analysis, and strategic decision support.
The Senior Management Accountant will work closely with the Accounting & Reporting Manager to ensure accurate financial data, provide insights for business decisions, and contribute to the enhancement of finance systems and processes.
Financial Oversight:
- Conduct a thorough review of company trial balances for mis-postings, unposted transactions, or other errors, working closely with Country Finance Managers to resolve them.
- Tracking investments in subsidy and Intercompany reconciliations, and coordinating settlements with the Treasury Team.
- Monitor month-on-month consistency of account balances and transaction classes.
- Tie all opening balances to audited financial statements.
Reporting & Analytics
- Prepare the internal management accounts
- Focus on providing insights into performance metrics, cost analysis and management reporting to CSuite.
- Provide cost analysis per location, activities, projects, staff costs, trend analysis
- Perform the variance analysis and play a key role in performance management, cost control, and operational decision support.
- Can also prepare the detailed budgets, forecasts and financial analysis to support strategic decision making.
- Tracking investments in subsidy and Intercompany reconciliations
- Advise on the financial implications of business decisions and develop actionable recommendations.
Compliance & Risk Management
- Analyse and manage business risks, including non-compliance costs, ensuring cases are followed up and corrected promptly.
General Duties
- Undertake additional responsibilities as assigned by management.
Requirements
Who We Are Looking For;
Successful candidates will have both technical skills in finance, plus alignment with company vision and values. Successful candidates must navigate fast-paced environments with enthusiasm and incredible attention to details. Minimum qualifications include:
- A degree in Commerce, Finance, Economics
- At least 7 years of experience in a busy accounting environment, with Big 4 accounting/auditing experience as an added advantage.
- Strong knowledge of financial systems
- Proven experience in preparing reports and dashboards for senior management.
- Demonstrated experience in automating financial processes.
- Proficiency in data management tools, including Power BI and other financial reporting tools.
- Familiarity with accounting standards and a deep understanding of ERP systems such as Odoo, SAP, or Oracle.
- Project management experience is a plus.
- Technology-savvy with a proven ability to work with financial models and system implementation.
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 84
Level of Education: bachelor degree
Job application procedure
Interested and qualified? Go to Inkomoko on apply.workable.com to apply
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