Financial Controller – Kenya

Role Overview

The Finance Manager will run Avenews KE’s daily finance operations, ensuring transactions are accurately recorded, cash and loan-portfolio balances are closely monitored, and management receives reliable financial information. The role owns the month-end and year-end close and coordinates the annual statutory audit, helping the business maintain sound controls and meet its reporting and compliance obligations.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain the general ledger and complete monthly and year-end close activities, including cut-off, accruals, prepayments, journals and review of account balances.
• Reconcile loan disbursements, repayments, principal, interest and fees between portfolio records and the general ledger; investigate unidentified transactions, mismatches and possible duplicate entries.
• Allocate customer repayments correctly and resolve unmatched or misposted receipts.
• Prepare monthly management accounts and financial statements, including income statements, balance sheets and cash-flow statements, along with portfolio, liquidity, cost and budget-variance reports.
• Track daily cash positions, prepare rolling cash-flow forecasts, and manage supplier invoices, payments and payroll processing.
• Lead budgeting and periodic forecasting, and complete bank, portfolio and balance-sheet reconciliations covering areas such as payables, receivables, fixed assets and statutory accounts.
• Manage tax and statutory filings and payments, including applicable PAYE, NSSF, SHIF and AHL obligations; ensure supplier and expense documentation meets eTIMS requirements.
• Maintain supporting records, approval trails and controls for payments, disbursements and accounting adjustments; coordinate the annual statutory audit through audit schedules, financial statements and responses to auditor queries.

Requirements & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting or a related discipline.
• Fully qualified CPA(K), ACCA or equivalent professional accounting qualification.
• At least five years of relevant finance and accounting experience.
• Proven ability to prepare complete financial statements and management reports, and to coordinate a statutory audit through to signed financial statements.
• Strong practical experience in bookkeeping, reconciliations, payroll, payments, budgeting and cash-flow management.
• Experience in lending, fintech, banking or microfinance is preferred.
• Advanced Excel capability and confidence using accounting systems.