Posted:2 hours ago
By:Hiring Kenya
Company Details
Industry:
Food Production
Description:
Tropical Heat was established in 1973 as a small ethnic snack cottage industry. Today, we are one of the leading manufacturers of spices and snacks in the East African region and our brand Tropical Heat is a household name in Kenya. With our very strong and expert technical team, we manufacture a vast range of spices and snacks. The spices include pure spices, herbs, seasonings, masalas and salts. Snack items comprise of potato crisps, ethnic snacks, Kenyan chevda, peanuts, rice cakes and extruded snacks
Job Description
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee day-to-day accounting operations across multiple business units
- Manage monthly closing process and ensure timely, accurate reporting
- Lead reconciliations - bank, debtors, creditors, inventory and inter-company
- Strengthen working capital control - debtors, creditors and stock
- Oversee statutory compliance - VAT, PAYE, corporate tax coordination
- Support audit processes - internal and external
- Maintain strong cost accounting discipline within manufacturing
- Improve finance processes, controls and documentation
- Partner with operations, supply chain and sales to ensure financial accuracy
- Assist in automation initiatives and system improvements
- Support the Commercial and Sales teams on margins, pricing, trade spend and joint business planning
- Partner with Sales on credit control discipline, customer limits and collection performance
- Improve finance processes, controls and documentation
- Assist in automation initiatives and system improvements
What We Are Looking For
- ACCA or CPA(K) qualified - fully certified
- 5 to 8+ years accounting experience, ideally within FMCG or manufacturing
- Strong understanding of stock, cost of production and margin analysis
- Experience managing high transaction volumes
- Excellent reconciliation and control mindset
- Comfortable working in a fast-moving, growth environment
- Strong Google Sheet / excel skills
- Extremely comfortable with technology, software, ERP and platforms like 'sage pastel'
- High integrity and strong attention to detail
Personal Attributes
- Structured and disciplined
- Calm under pressure
- Proactive problem solver
- Commercially aware, not just technically strong
- Team player who supports leadership
Salary: Discuss During Interview
Education: Diploma
Employment Type: Full Time