Audit Assistant

This Audit Assistant role at Kinangop Dairy Limited supports the internal audit function by ensuring financial and operational compliance, verifying transactions, and conducting routine checks on inventory and cash movements. This position is crucial for maintaining integrity in procurement, creditor payments, and asset management processes within the dairy company.

Main Role and Responsibilities

• Ensure all creditor Invoice payments have supporting documents (i.e., LPO, GRN, Delivery Notes, and Approvals).
• Ensure all goods supplied are received by GRN and all credit notes for returns are received.
• Ensure there is no double payment of invoices.
• Check validity and approval of payments.
• Ensure supporting documents are attached for expenses paid.
• Perform Month Ad Hoc Cash counts.
• Check ordering of goods for proper procurement procedure.
• Check the list of deposits against deposit slips, setoff, and withdrawals.
• Perform random checks on crates issues and returns posting.
• Check cans movements reports for cases of overstays in the market.
• Perform random stock counts of cans and crates and compare with book records for losses.
• Perform any other duties assigned by the immediate supervisor.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required

• Must be a graduate in Business Studies or Accounting.
• Must possess at least Part 2 of a professional accounting qualification; CPA (K) or ACCA will be an advantage.
• Must have KCSE grade C+ and above.
• Computer literate with strong competence in MS Office package, including Excel, Access, and PowerPoint.
• Experience with accounting packages and ERPs, including QuickBooks, Sage, or Syspro. Knowledge of Syspro will be an added advantage.
• Possess effective and impactful communication, good negotiation, problem-solving, and presentation skills.
• Must have minimum 2 years’ work experience in an Auditing environment.