The opportunity

We are looking for a financial reporting and payroll accountant to join our robust ACR team.

Your key responsibilities

The work mainly involves working with the ACR team by carrying out the following tasks: -

Assistant Accountant – Roles and Responsibilities:

• Accurately record clients’ invoices, payments, payroll journals, and other financial transactions in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
• Ensure prepayments, such as rent and insurance, are appropriately amortised and expensed on a monthly/periodic basis.
• Maintain fixed asset accounting records, including updating fixed asset registers and schedules, calculating and posting depreciation, and monitoring fixed asset movements.
• Prepare, review, and post all required accruals and provisions in the accounting system, ensuring support schedules are updated monthly.
• Perform monthly vendor reconciliations and resolve reconciling differences on a timely basis.
• Create and maintain vendor and customer master data in the accounting system as required.
• Prepare periodic financial reports, including trial balances, statements of financial position, statements of financial performance, statements of changes in equity, and cash flow statements.
• Prepare and review monthly bank reconciliations within the accounting system, ensuring all reconciling items are appropriately addressed.
• Perform monthly vendor ageing analysis and support effective payables management.
• Support month-end close processes, including preparation of month-end journals and management reports for clients.
• Prepare statutory annual/interim financial statements in compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) and the Kenya Companies Act, 2015.
• Coordinate annual audit engagements for accounting and bookkeeping clients, including preparation of audit schedules and responding to audit queries.
• Liaise with clients to identify and prepare required accounting journals to ensure compliance with IFRSs.
• Support in business development activities, including preparation of proposals, client billings, and debtors’ collections.
• Keep clients informed of new and amended financial accounting and reporting standards and assess their impact on financial reporting.

Payroll Consultant – Roles and Responsibilities

• Obtain and review all required monthly payroll input data from clients in a timely manner.
• Capture roll‑forward payroll data accurately and maintain appropriate back‑up documentation from prior periods.
• Compute Pay As You Earn (PAYE) accurately and in compliance with prevailing tax legislation.
• Capture payroll inputs accurately and process payroll calculations and reports using PaySpace payroll software.
• Generate monthly payroll reports and submit them to seniors and managers for review and approval.
• Share reviewed payroll reports with designated client contacts within agreed timelines.
• Process net salary payments through clients’ online banking platforms accurately and on schedule.
• Prepare and issue employee payslips and annual P9 tax cards accurately and within prescribed timelines.
• Prepare and file all statutory payroll deductions, including PAYE, NSSF, SHIF, AHL, HELB, and NITA, on or before the prescribed due dates.
• Ensure statutory payroll payments are processed accurately and within statutory deadlines.
• Monitor changes in payroll‑related legislation, taxes, and statutory social security requirements and communicate relevant updates to clients.
• Assist in the preparation and issuance of clients’ fee invoices.

Skills and attributes for success

How your skills and experience will make an impact, followed by sub-headings:

To qualify for the role, you must have: -

• A Bachelor’s degree in either Economics/Business/Finance or a related field with a minimum of upper second-class honours or its equivalent
• A minimum overall grade of a B and B in both English & Mathematics at Secondary School level
• Professional qualification in accounting (ACCA, CPA or CA Finalist)
• SAP/Microsoft Business Central/Navision/Pastel/Quick books Knowledge or its equivalent
• Computerised accounting skills
• Proficiency in payroll software packages preferably PaySpace will be an added advantage.
• Advanced Excel knowledge and macros
• Hands on iTax knowledge
• Exemplary communication and interpersonal skills
• 2 years hands on experience in monthly management reports, payrolls, annual audit and preparation of statutory financial statements in accordance with IFRS accounting standards

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Working experience in Accounting/Finance department for at least 2 years or more with hands-on experience with computerized Accounting Systems like ERPs such as, NAVISION, Microsoft Business Central, SAGE and payroll computerized payroll systems.

What we look for

A person who is:

• Able to prioritize, multi-task and work independently
• Proactive
• Attentive to detail
• Agile and curious to learn
• Discrete & Honest

• Accurately record clients’ invoices, payments, payroll journals, and other financial transactions in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
• Ensure prepayments, such as rent and insurance, are appropriately amortised and expensed on a monthly/periodic basis.
• Maintain fixed asset accounting records, including updating fixed asset registers and schedules, calculating and posting depreciation, and monitoring fixed asset movements.
• Prepare, review, and post all required accruals and provisions in the accounting system, ensuring support schedules are updated monthly.
• Perform monthly vendor reconciliations and resolve reconciling differences on a timely basis.
• Create and maintain vendor and customer master data in the accounting system as required.
• Prepare periodic financial reports, including trial balances, statements of financial position, statements of financial performance, statements of changes in equity, and cash flow statements.
• Prepare and review monthly bank reconciliations within the accounting system, ensuring all reconciling items are appropriately addressed.
• Perform monthly vendor ageing analysis and support effective payables management.
• Support month-end close processes, including preparation of month-end journals and management reports for clients.
• Prepare statutory annual/interim financial statements in compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) and the Kenya Companies Act, 2015.
• Coordinate annual audit engagements for accounting and bookkeeping clients, including preparation of audit schedules and responding to audit queries.
• Liaise with clients to identify and prepare required accounting journals to ensure compliance with IFRSs.
• Support in business development activities, including preparation of proposals, client billings, and debtors’ collections.
• Keep clients informed of new and amended financial accounting and reporting standards and assess their impact on financial reporting.
• Obtain and review all required monthly payroll input data from clients in a timely manner.
• Capture roll‑forward payroll data accurately and maintain appropriate back‑up documentation from prior periods.
• Compute Pay As You Earn (PAYE) accurately and in compliance with prevailing tax legislation.
• Capture payroll inputs accurately and process payroll calculations and reports using PaySpace payroll software.
• Generate monthly payroll reports and submit them to seniors and managers for review and approval.
• Share reviewed payroll reports with designated client contacts within agreed timelines.
• Process net salary payments through clients’ online banking platforms accurately and on schedule.
• Prepare and issue employee payslips and annual P9 tax cards accurately and within prescribed timelines.
• Prepare and file all statutory payroll deductions, including PAYE, NSSF, SHIF, AHL, HELB, and NITA, on or before the prescribed due dates.
• Ensure statutory payroll payments are processed accurately and within statutory deadlines.
• Monitor changes in payroll‑related legislation, taxes, and statutory social security requirements and communicate relevant updates to clients.
• Assist in the preparation and issuance of clients’ fee invoices.

• SAP/Microsoft Business Central/Navision/Pastel/Quick books Knowledge or its equivalent
• Computerised accounting skills
• Proficiency in payroll software packages preferably PaySpace will be an added advantage.
• Advanced Excel knowledge and macros
• Hands on iTax knowledge
• Exemplary communication and interpersonal skills

• A Bachelor’s degree in either Economics/Business/Finance or a related field with a minimum of upper second-class honours or its equivalent
• A minimum overall grade of a B and B in both English & Mathematics at Secondary School level
• Professional qualification in accounting (ACCA, CPA or CA Finalist)
• Working experience in Accounting/Finance department for at least 2 years or more with hands-on experience with computerized Accounting Systems like ERPs such as, NAVISION, Microsoft Business Central, SAGE and payroll computerized payroll systems.