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- Company: Sanergy
- Location: Kenya
- State: Nairobi
- Job type: Full-Time
- Job category: - Finance Jobs in KenyaSanergy Jobs in Kenya
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Job Description
Sanergy is an award-winning social venture that builds healthy, prosperous communities by making hygienic sanitation accessible and affordable in Africa’s urban informal settlements. Our systems-based approach to solving the sanitation crisis involves five key steps: we build a dense network of franchised micro-entrepreneurs, who operate low-cost, high-quality waterless sanitation facilities – called Fresh Life Toilets. We provide critical support services – such as access to finance, business analytics, training, and marketing. We collect the waste regularly and safely remove it from the community. We convert the waste into valuable end products, such as organic fertilizer, insect-based animal feed, and renewable energy. Finally, we sell the end products to Kenyan farms under the brand name Farm Star.
About the role:
Sanergy is seeking to hire a Financial Controller to lead the accounting department and ensure timely preparation of financial reports, formulating & Implementing internal controls, and prescribed finance processes.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Ensure that all end-month processes are carried out, periods are properly closed, and provide accurate and timely financial reports and forecasts
- Preparation of monthly management accounts
- Oversee classification of all expenses to various cost centres in line with the approved budget
- Ensure accurate record-keeping of expense policy by defining allowable business costs and ensuring allocation as per the policy
- Coordinate and oversee the internal and external audit of the accounting records(Including Grant audits where applicable) and financial statements and implement all recommendations on a timely basis
- Prepare timely audit reports for executive management, the Audit Committee, and the Board of Directors
- Foreign exchange risk management and development of foreign exchange risk mitigation strategies
- Monitoring and managing the organization’s bank relationships and liquidity management
- Filing tax returns for the parent company
- Keep track of tax changes and recommend tax strategies that align with business goals
- Ensure compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards, statutory requirements, legal requirements, and Company policies and procedures and taxation, and other regulatory requirements
- Ensure internal control in finance is in place and fully complied with as per company policies and procedures intended to safeguard financial resources and assets from risk
Qualifications:
- Business Degree preferably in Finance or Accounting, Masters degree an added advantage
- A CPA 3 or its equivalent
- Minimum 6 years experience in accounting with at least 2 years in a similar role
- Advanced excel knowledge is a MUST
- Knowledge of IFRS & GAAP is an added advantage
- Have excellent quantitative and analytical skills
- Be an excellent team player/collaborator with excellent communication skills
- Have demonstrated the ability to act decisively and resolve problems
