Financial Accountant

Financial Accountant

• Job Type Full Time
• Qualification BA/BSc/HND , Professional Certificate
• Experience 8 years
• Location Nairobi
• Job Field Finance / Accounting / Audit

Overall Objective

• To provide strong financial controllership, cost visibility, and compliance governance ensuring accurate financial reporting and optimal working capital management.
• To drive financial discipline, cost control, and risk management across the manufacturing operations.
• To act as a business partner to operations, ensuring financial insights support profitability, efficiency, and decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

• General Ledger Integrity, Financial Control and Close Management

• Own and ensure completeness, accuracy, and integrity of the General Ledger and all sub-ledgers across the business.

• Review and approve all journal entries, accruals, provisions, and adjustments ensuring compliance with accounting standards and company policies.

• Ensure full reconciliation between GL, sub-ledgers (AP, AR, Inventory, Assets), and supporting schedules.

• Drive a structured and disciplined month-end and year-end close process, ensuring adherence to timelines and zero errors.

• Identify anomalies in financial postings and ensure immediate correction and root cause resolution.

• Maintain a clean audit trail for all financial transactions and adjustments.

• Financial Reporting, Performance Analysis and Business Partnering

• Prepare accurate, complete, and timely financial reports (monthly, quarterly, annual) in line with IFRS and company standards.

• Ensure strict adherence to reporting timelines (e.g., 2nd of following month).

• Analyze financial performance vs budgets, forecasts, and prior periods.

• Provide detailed variance explanations and actionable recommendations.

• Act as a finance business partner to operations, procurement, and sales teams.

• Translate financial data into insights that support strategic and operational decisions.

• Fixed Asset Management, Capex Control and Asset Governance

• Maintain a fully accurate and verifiable fixed asset register including tagging, location, and ownership.

• Ensure proper capitalization, depreciation, and disposal in line with accounting standards.

• Monitor capital expenditure against approved budgets and business cases.

• Conduct periodic physical asset verification and reconciliation.

• Ensure all assets are adequately safeguarded and utilized efficiently.

• Audit Management, Internal Controls and Compliance Governance

• Lead and coordinate internal and external audits ensuring full compliance.

• Ensure timely preparation of audit schedules, reconciliations, and supporting documentation.

• Drive closure of audit findings with clear corrective and preventive actions.

• Strengthen internal controls across finance and operational processes.

• Continuously assess and improve the control environment to prevent risks.

• Accounts Payable, Supplier Management and Financial Discipline

• Ensure timely and accurate processing of supplier invoices and payments.

• Monitor payables and ensure no aged or overdue balances.

• Align payment schedules with cash flow plans and contractual terms.

• Maintain strong supplier relationships through payment discipline and transparency.

• Inventory Accounting, Cost Visibility and Control

• Ensure accurate financial recording and valuation of all inventory categories (RM, WIP, FG).

• Reconcile inventory balances between finance and warehouse systems.

• Monitor inventory movements, cost changes, and valuation impacts.

• Support stock counts and ensure alignment between physical and financial records.

• Provide visibility on inventory holding costs and slow-moving/obsolete stock.

• Risk Management, Insurance & claims and Financial Safeguarding

• Identify financial risks including operational and compliance risk.

• Implement and monitor risk mitigation strategies.

• Manage insurance policies ensuring adequate coverage of company assets and risks.

• Handle insurance claims efficiently and ensure timely recovery.

• ERP Systems Ownership, Data Integrity and Automation

• Act as ERP FI/CO module champion, ensuring optimal system utilization.

• Ensure accuracy, completeness, and integrity of all financial data in the system.

• Drive automation of financial processes to improve efficiency and reduce errors.

• Support system upgrades, reporting tools, and digital transformation initiatives.

• Team Leadership, Capability Development and Performance Management

• Lead, coach, and develop finance team members to enhance skills and performance.

• Set clear performance expectations and monitor delivery.

• Identify skill gaps and implement training and development plans.

• Build a high-performance finance team aligned to business needs.

• Internal control management

• Design, implement, and monitor internal controls across financial processes.

• Ensure proper segregation of duties (SoD) across finance functions.

• Perform periodic control reviews and testing.

• Master Data management

• Maintain and control chart of accounts, vendor master data, fixed asset register.

• Ensure all master data changes are properly authorized, supported by documentation, accurately recorded and traceable.

• Establish and enforce master data governance policies.

• Validate master data against approved documents.

• Ensure consistency across systems and reports

• Academic qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in commerce (Accounting or Finance option), Finance, Economics, or a related field

• CPA(K)

• Member of ICPAK in good standing

• Knowledge and Experience

• Over 8 years' work experience with at least 2 in a similar role role

• Experience in manufacturing or FMCG busy environment

• Exposure to statutory audits, month-end and year-end closing, and preparation of financial statements

• Budgeting, forecasting and cost control

• Internal controls and audit procedures

• Advanced Excel (pivot tables, lookups, financial modelling)

• Proficiency in ERP and accounting software

• Behavioural / Personal Qualities

• Ownership & Financial Stewardship

• Integrity, Ethics & Governance

• Control Mindset & Risk Awareness

• Attention to Detail & Accuracy

• Discipline & Execution Excellence

• Business Partnering & Influence

• Planning, Organization & Time Management

• Learning Agility & Technical Mastery

• Leadership & Capability Building

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