Accounts Assistant – Receivables
Context
HACO Industries (Kenya) Limited is one of the region’s leading FMCG manufacturers, supplying a wide range of products to the entire East African and COMESA Markets. We are well known as an indigenous Kenyan company that manufactures quality personal and home care brands that include MIADI, AMARA, SO-SOFT, SPARKLE, ACE, Haco pegs and rulers. We are also the only licensed distributor of Palmers in Kenya. Our desire is to be able to add value to the everyday life of our customer across Africa.
The primary purpose of the job is:
Reporting to the Credit Controller, the position holder will Processing accounting receivables and incoming payments in compliance with financial policies and procedures.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Regularly monitor customer accounts and ensure that credit limits are adhered to.
- Provide timely responses to the invoicing team to enable release of orders for invoicing.
- Ensure that customer balances due are collected in a timely manner.
- Ensure that credit notes that need to be issued to customers are issued in a prompt manner.
- Ensure daily posting of transactions in customer accounts.
- Ensure that customer statements are sent out to customers every week.
- Provide monthly reconciliations of general ledger accounts delegated by the Financial Controller.
- Ensure customer disputes are resolved in a timely manner and in a way that builds strong customer relationships.
- Weekly and monthly bank & petty cash reconciliation.
- Reconciliation and circulation of daily cash report.
- Ensure that staff floats and advances are reconciled every month and amounts not accounted for within the laid down procedures are submitted to HR department for payroll deduction.
- Fixed Assets management.
Qualifications and Experience
- Business related undergraduate degree.
- Accounting qualification, CPA Intermediate and above
- Proficiency in accounting software and MS Office suite, particularly Excel.
- Excellent numerical accuracy and attention to detail.
- Strong time management skills
- Knowledge of accounting standards and taxation regulations
- At least 2-year professional experience in a similar position
How to Apply
Interested applicants should fill in their pre-application forms on https://forms.office.com/r/QAsm1RXqrr and forward copies of their application letters, academic and professional certificates, testimonials, up-to-date curriculum vitae to [email protected] to be received not later than 1st November, 2024.
All applicants should state their expected remuneration and indicate their contact details.
Haco Industries (K) Limited is an equal opportunity employer and people with disability and the marginalized are encouraged to apply.