Financial Accountant at Pezesha

• We are looking for experienced Financial Accountant (s) who will wear many hats and be responsible for financial planning and analysis, forecasting, budgeting, and internal control. In addition play an instrumental role in daily reconciliations and financial reporting across various stakeholders.

Primary responsibilities:

• Maintain accounts for the company and any subsidiaries or countries we operate as per international financial reporting standards (IFRS and IAS) and ensure high levels of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Perform month-end close activities, including preparation of journal entries and reconciliations for various balance sheet and income statement accounts
• Perform financial statement analysis and document meaningful explanations for fluctuations
• Performing risk management by analyzing the organization's liabilities and investments
• Ensure all accounting processes are streamlined and in accordance with the respective jurisdiction.
• Recommending changes in policies or procedures (technical and operational) that will improve financial performance
• Processing payroll and any external payments on time as per company calendar
• Liaise with external auditors to facilitate quarterly and annual audits and implementation of all their recommendations in our books
• Forecast monthly and quarterly cash requirements for the business and prepare/update periodic budgets for the different departments and any company activities or projects
• Provide strategic decision making based on accounting reporting to always ensure cost management and revenue optimization strategies
• Collaborate with finance and credit operations team for investor reporting, covenant compliance, budget variation, financial statements analysis
• Reconcile transactions and bank statements
• Liaise with all other business units to challenge the status quo, implement new ideas, investigate and implement more efficient solutions and treasury processes
• Monthly or Quarterly Follow up and invoicing with suppliers or service providers to ensure timely payments to/from them
• Updating Liquidity models across all our portfolios and institutional lenders
• Unit of economics across all portfolios and providing recommendations on areas of optimisations of costs
• Understanding of how new related finance laws and regulations affect our business and suggesting ideas or approaches that we need to implement to comply with those laws in a cost effective manner
• Knowledge transfers and mentorship to the Junior Accountants.
• Any other tasks assigned by the CFO or CEO or COO

Your skills and experience:

• At least 5 years of relevant accounting experience, with at least 3 years with a high growth startup/company.
• Lateral experiences within a corporate finance, investments & transactions, or Fintech comparable role will be favored.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Advanced knowledge of online QuickBooks or other related accounting software or tools
• Sound analytical skills and advanced skills using Microsoft Excel.
• Strong understanding of IFRS
• Good understanding of local taxation in KE / prior experience dealing with KRA Audits/Requests
• Professional qualification: CPA or ACCA or CFA certified or an equivalent certified
• Added advantage: experience in Fintech or East African Banking industry
• Added Advantage: Fintech or Lending/Credit Background

Your personal characteristics

• Intrinsically motivated by the mission of Pezesha Africa
• Results-orientated and pragmatic with exceptional quantitative and analytical ability and attention to detail and integrity
• Independent thinker and worker who can juggle multiple projects simultaneously with fast-changing priorities
• Accepts constructive criticism positively
• Flexibility to roll up your sleeves and attack problems and projects as they arise, where you will need to set out a clear structure, method and outcomes yourself
• Tech savvy who embraces new software and online tools and is personally interested by tech-enabled solutions
• Effective and Efficient in managing and communicating with team members and stakeholders based remotely or in different timezones.