The successful candidate will be responsible for managing end-to-end order-to-cash cycle, ensuring accurate billing, effective credit control and collections, sound credit risk management, customer reconciliations and compliance with Kenyan tax requirements. The role will play a key part in protecting the company’s working capital and cash flow.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage customer billing and invoicing, ensuring accurate and timely invoices based on contracts, LPOs, delivery notes, milestones and approved variations.
- Drive debt collection and manage the debtors’ ageing to achieve monthly collection targets.
- Assess customer creditworthiness, recommend credit limits and payment terms, and monitor customer exposure.
- Perform customer account reconciliations and ensure accurate allocation of all customer receipts.
- Track retentions, advance payments, guarantees, contract variations and certified project values.
- Ensure compliance with Kenyan tax requirements, including VAT, eTIMS, withholding VAT, withholding tax and iTax.
- Prepare debtors’ ageing, collections, DSO, cash-flow and other receivables reports for management.
- Deputize for the Head of Finance during their absence and support month-end close, management accounts, budgeting and cash-flow forecasting.
- Supervise junior finance staff and maintain effective finance controls, policies, procedures and segregation of duties.
- Support internal and external audits by preparing reconciliations, schedules and supporting documentation and following up audit findings.
Key Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Commerce, Accounting, Finance or a related field.
- Strong knowledge of Kenyan tax compliance, including VAT, eTIMS, withholding VAT, withholding tax and iTax.
- Experience in broader finance functions, including month-end close, management accounts, cash-flow forecasting and statutory compliance.
- Strong working knowledge of ERP/accounting systems and advanced Excel skills, including Pivot Tables, lookups, reconciliations and reporting.
- Good understanding of IFRS 15 and IFRS 9, with strong analytical, communication and organisational skills; experience in a project-based industry will be an added advantage.
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