JOB DETAILS:

Job Summary: To maintain ledger books and post transactions in compliance with accounting principles and regulations

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• • Verifying completeness of payment requisitions, justification and documentation of financial transactions
  • Providing data schedules to facilitate financial and management reporting
  • Maintaining up to date books of accounts, ledger and bank reconciliations, financial records and assets register
  • Preparing remittances/transfers schedules of funds from the wildlife fund to operations accounts/receipts for operations
  • Liaising with URA and NSSF on statutory compliance
  • Preparing quarterly and annual revenue and forecasts and monitoring revenue collection at the different collection centres
  • Establishing mechanisms to ensure conformance in handling of revenue collection at the different collection centres
  • Reviewing and monitoring customer balances ensuring that the approved credit limits are not surpassed
  • Reviewing tax schedules and guiding on tax matters to ensure statutory compliance on VAT
  • Preparing financial investment proposals

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• An Honors Bachelor’s Degree in either Finance and Accounting, Commerce (Accounting), or Business Administration (Accounting) from a recognized University.
• Full professional accounting qualification with membership to CPA or ACCA

OR

• Full Professional accounting qualifications with a Master degree in Business Administration (Accounting or Finance) from a recognized University

Experience

• At least three (03) years relevant experience, three (3) of which should have been as Accountant from a reputable Organization.

Competences

Technical

• Planning and Budgeting
• Financial Management
• Expenditure management and Budgetary control
• Financial reporting
• Risk management and Assurance
• Information and Communications Technology

Behavioral

• Innovative and Proactive
• Decision Making and Problem Solving
• Effective communication
• Ethics and Integrity
• Inter-personal relations