Accounts Receivable

Role Purpose

The Accounts Receivable role is responsible for managing customer ledgers, ensuring timely and accurate invoicing, and maintaining a healthy cash cycle through proactive debt collection and credit control management.

Key Responsibilities

• Ledger Management: Create new customer ledgers capturing all relevant information including I-tax registration numbers and contact details. Maintain up-to-date and accurate customer records.
• Invoicing: Prepare and issue accurate quotations and invoices to customers in a timely manner.
• Credit Control: Monitor customer accounts for delayed payments and follow up proactively. Enforce credit policies and recommend credit limits where applicable.
• Reconciliation: Reconcile accounts receivable ledger to ensure all payments are accounted for against receipts.
• Dispute Resolution: Investigate and resolve billing discrepancies or disputes.
• Reporting: Generate Weekly AR aging reports and highlight risk accounts. Use insights from debtors’ collection and ledger analysis to identify collection trends, prepare root cause analysis and support the Finance Manager (FM) to drive plans to mitigate impact on bad debts.
• Collaboration: Coordinate with the certification desk and customer service teams to resolve any client issues related to billing and payments.
• Financial Closing: Support month-end and year-end financial closing processes, including preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements.
• Performance KPIs: Actively manage and attain reduction of company bad debt provision and improve company cash cycle and enhance cash conversion as per KPIs.
• Compliance: Adhere to IFRS and the Finance Policy.
• Advisory: Advise the Board through the Finance Manager when there is surplus beyond immediate cash requirements for investment purposes. Prepare cashflow projections.
• General Duties: Perform other financial duties related to the role.

Requirements

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or a related field from a reputable academic institution.
• CPA (K) qualification will be an added advantage.
• A minimum of 4 years working experience in a similar position in a busy office environment in a culturally fluent, multinational set-up.
• Proficiency in QuickBooks accounting software.
• Should be well versed with tax and labor laws of Kenya.
• Experience in adherence to tight reporting deadlines.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attentive to detail.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and manage time effectively.
• Good interpersonal skills and a team player.
• Strong integrity and ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Previous experience in credit control and debt recovery processes will be an added advantage.

Personal Attributes

• Commitment to AfriCert core values.
• Purpose-driven and self-disciplined.
• Well groomed, proactive, and confident.
• Good communication skills both written and oral.

How to Apply

Qualified candidates should send an updated curriculum vitae ONLY to hrm@africertlimited.co.ke with a copy to info@africertlimited.co.ke by 17th April 2026.