Service Line Accountant at G4S

Responsibilities:

Financial Accounting and Reporting

• Monitor revenue billing progress and escalate adverse variances on a weekly basis.
• Perform monthly reconciliation for alarms billed versus alarms monitored.
• Supporting the sales team with deal desks, bidding, price modeling to maximize gross margin and profitability.
• Management of supplier relationships including entry of items in the company.
• Preparing all suppliers' and statutory payments.
• Maintaining bank mandate for the service line and performing bank reconciliations on a timely basis.
• Management of the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) including completion of returns and timely response to queries to KRA.
• General ledger management for G4S fire accounts, posting and recording general ledger transactions in a timely manner for month end and year end reporting.
• Processing of Management accounts by Close of Business (CoB) workday 5 of the following month and ESS reports.
• Submission of monthly General Ledger (GL) reconciliations between 15th and 20th of every month.
• Conduct and supervise monthly inventory stock takes and maintaining reconciliation schedules.
• Supporting internal audit by providing required schedules and support documents. Timely resolution of internal audit findings within the set closure time.
• Supporting external audits by providing schedules and required documents. Financial statements preparation (financial statements to be signed by the timelines advised by the group)
• Planning, budgeting and analyzing information including variance analysis and bridges covering end month reporting, budgets and latest forecasts.

Financial Controls and Risk Management

• Continuously check and ensure that the Group's accounting policies, procedures and principles are correctly applied in close cooperation with the controlling department.
• Ensure adherence to all company internal controls, financial policies and procedures.
• Oversee the maintenance of a proper and functional data registry and filing system.
• Oversee the maintenance of fixed assets and other company registers of G4S Fire Limited

Tax Compliance

• Supervise and check the release of end-of-year statutory financial statements, tax and legal statements.
• Ensure reliability of accounting and tax information by implementing appropriate procedures, checks and performance indicators.
• Ensure familiarity with accounting and tax regulations.
• Oversee the preparation of the company's tax returns and other periodic statutory deductions.

Ideal candidate:

Qualifications

• Degree in Finance and Accounting from a recognized University.
• Registered Member of ICPAK (CPA (K)) or internationally recognized professional accountancy body.
• Minimum 3 years’ relevant experience in financial & management accounting.
• Relevant experience in audit in a large / international audit firm will be an added advantage.
• Working experience with ERP systems will be an added advantage.