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Assistant Accountant ƒƒ‚ƒ‚‚ƒ‚‚“Treasury Services At Platinum Outsourcing And Logistics

Platinum Outsourcing And Logistics

Consulting full time Nairobi Posted 2 months ago

From KES 2,010

Platinum Outsourcing & Logistics (E.A) Ltd was founded and incorporated in 2010, to lead in provision of outsourcing and logistics services. We run a subsidiary company Chania Cleaners offering cleaning , Sanitation, pest control, waste management and landscaping services. Our Mission To strive to provide quality services consistently to be the company overview benchmark in the industry. Our market position This is evident in our strong presence in most of our county region namely Nairobi, Thika, Meru, Oyani, Malakisi, Molo. Our clientele indicated in this RFI is another indicator of our market position. The company keeps its quality management systems constantly striving to improve its process and their applications throughout all sites of operation by monitoring, measuring and analyzing all its activities. All levels of management staff and employees are committed and responsible for ensuring the implementation of the actions required to achieve planned results, to comply and exceed the quality standards and to continually improve the activities in their respective areas of operation. The company’s policy commitment is communicated to employees and other stakeholder regularly. The management staff and employees of Platinum are committed to improve and ensure continued leadership in the outsourcing, logistics, cleaning and sanitation services. Our key performance indicators are:- 1.Customer Satisfaction 2. Employee Motivation 3.Environmental impact control and 4.Occupational Health and Safety concern Our operational experience is to provide similar services to large organizations both international and locally such as B.A.T. Kenya Limited, Del Monte Kenya Limited, Crown Food Industries. Our key strengths is having a strong management team, well trained and motivated skilled workers. Being a medium sized company, we provide our clients with quality, personalized, cost effective, efficient and reliable services.PURPOSE OF THE POSITION The Assistant Accountant-Treasury services is responsible for petty cash management and Banking and performing Bank reconciliations. The position reports to the Financial Controller. Experience working with an ERP system is critical for this position. RESPONSIBILITIES Banking  Daily bank reconciliations with weekly print outs for review and sign off by the Financial Controller.  Running and posting the daily swift statements in SAP and perming and submitting reconciliations of the PIP accounts, posting into SAP bank charges and commissions.  Managing Staff accounts in SAP and ensuring no balances are older than one Month otherwise such cases to be advised to HR manager for recovery from the employee.  Daily Posting of customers’ payments in SAP.  Liaising closely with the credit control department to ensure that customer credit limits are zerorised when customers’ cheques are unpaid by the bank.  Maintaining of daily unpaid cheques reports and follow up with Area Sales Managers, Key Accounts manager and Financial Controller.  Monitoring to ensure that the company bankers are charging the company using the agreed tariffs and cases of overcharges are flagged and follow up to ensure prompt resolution.  Validation and posting of bank charges on a weekly basis. Petty cash Management – Mpesa  Prepare petty cash expense vouchers and get approval on weekly basis.  Prepare monthly Mpesa - SAP reconciliation.  Petty cash management (includes among other things cash disbursement, re-imbursement).  Ensuring all IOUs are accounted for as per company IOU policy.  Ensure receipt of cash sales is properly documented and approved.  Ensure cash receipts are verified against Mpesa statement before confirming the Debit notes for collection.  Safe custody of   company valuables including debtors post-dated cheques, cheque books, spare keys, documents of title and cash tile in the safe.  Company Authorised bank agents to collect valuable items such as bankers’ cheques and documents and fill authorized standard forms/documents.  Perform any other duties as may be assigned from time to time. Tax services File tax returns (VAT, Excise duty and withholding taxes) via itax and ensure the same are paid before their due dates. Prepare the statutory/non statutory monthly deductions schedule and settle the same after approval before the deadline of the 9th of every month. Reconcile Tax General ledger control accounts (VAT, Excise duty and withholding taxes) to the returns. Responding to tax queries from KRA (VAT, Excise duty and withholding taxes) Manage itax ledger to ensure that the ledger is clean of penalties and interest. Experience and Background The incumbent must have proficient knowledge in the following areas:  Knowledge of various legal requirements regarding Government Taxes  Knowledge of the Accounting cycle particularly Account payable cycle and General ledger  Working Knowledge SAP ERP systems  He should be a graduate and a minimum of CPA 2 Other vital skills The incumbent must demonstrate the following skills:  Demonstrate that he has the BEST VALUES.  excellent interpersonal, communication and listening skills.  Effective team player.  Negotiation skills, initiative, time management and customer focus.  analytical and problem-solving skills.  attention to detail and high level of accuracy.  Ability to meet tight deadline and work under pressure.  A person of high integrity, honest and trustworthy.