Manager – Financial & Revenue Reporting at Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA)

Job Summary

The jobholder shall be responsible for the management and coordination of revenue accounting and reporting activities in the Finance & Budgeting Division.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Manage revenue accounting and coordinate the integration of business systems with payment systems, ensuring operational testing is conducted prior to acceptance or deployment. This includes both internal systems and integration with external parties such as banks, the National Treasury, and other principals.
• Oversee and supervise the execution of various activities related to expenditure and financial accounting, such as approval of third-party payments, Control and approval of expenditure and imprests.
• Manage and monitor collection of revenues across all agent banks and their remittances to the Central Bank of Kenya, and ensure periodic review and Performance Monitoring of contracted collection entities, as per the Service Level Agreement (SLA), and submission of periodic reports for decision making.
• Develop and implement effective evaluation frameworks for service delivery and a comprehensive annual work plan for the expenditure and financial reporting function.
• Liaise with the Corporate Tax Accounts Management Division to enforce the collection of penalties from defaulting banks, ensuring accurate computation and appropriate advice to the banks.
• Prepare the Authority’s financial accounts and reports, internal and external audit financial statements, and respond to Management queries.
• Coordinate compilation of user requirements for new revenue payment system functionalities, manage timely and accurate revenue reporting and coordinate preparation of the quarterly and annual revenue accountability statement
• Engage and follow through on unclaimed financial assets and monitor payments due from Banks under Receivership/Liquidation & follow up on related recoveries with Receivers & Kenya Deposit Insurance Corporation (KDIC).
• Implement the following corporate initiatives in the Unit: Performance Management, Audit, Integrity, Quality Management Systems (QMS), and Risk Management.

Person specifications

For appointment to this job, the candidate must have:

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Economics, Finance and Accounting or any other relevant qualification from a recognised institution.
• A Master’s Degree in Business Administration, Economics, Finance and Accounting or any other relevant qualification from a recognised institution, will be an added advantage.
• Certified Public Accountants–Kenya (CPA-K) /Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) or an equivalent qualification from a recognised institution.
• Valid membership to a recognised professional Accountancy body.
• Minimum of five (5) years’ relevant work experience with at least two (2) years at first-level management or a comparable position.
• A Leadership Course lasting not less than four (4) weeks from a recognised institution will be an added advantage.

Key Competencies

• Leadership and people management skills
• Technological ability and Good decision-making capabilities
• Resilient, focused, results-oriented, with expertise in risk management and analysis
• Excellent oral and written communication, good planning, presentation, analytical and organisational skills.
• Sound knowledge of relevant Accounting standards.