Reconciliation Assistant

The Reconciliation Assistant will support the Financial Accountant in independently checking and performing reconciliations on bank accounts, salary control accounts, and any other assigned accounts. The primary purpose of this role is to ensure the integrity of balance sheet reporting and verify that requisite controls over payments, receipts, and their accounting are being duly executed.\n\n### Roles and Responsibilities\n\n#### Bank Reconciliations\n- Extract daily bank, credit card, and MPESA statements and reconcile with company books, ensuring all transactions are accurately reflected.\n- Investigate and follow up on all outstanding receipts or payments, ensuring posting or corrective actions are taken.\n- Manage bank charges information and perform final month-end reconciliations.\n- Prepare monthly reconciliation statements documenting reasons for reconciling items, required actions, and assigned responsibilities.\n- Ensure daily preparation and signing off of petty cash, MPESA, and hard cash reconciliation statements by the petty cash holder and Financial Accountant.\n- Ensure resolution of all action items happens within one month before the next published reconciliation statement.\n\n#### Salary Control Accounts\n- Maintain a quarterly inventory of all salary control accounts, detailing purpose, liabilities, and expected zero-balance timelines.\n- Conduct daily reviews of accounts scheduled to zerorize and prepare detailed variance reports captures root causes and resolution timelines.\n- Perform weekly monitoring of all salary control account balances and aging, investigating long outstanding or abnormal entries.\n- Prepare ranked reports of all salary control account balances for review by the Financial Accountant and Finance Manager, highlighting items older than one month.\n- Produce 1-page reconciliation reports for period-end balances, itemizing entries and aging analysis.\n- Track the resolution of action items arising from control account reports and publish monthly tracking reports.\n- Ensure all corrective accounting actions, including prior-period journal entries, are properly approved based on value thresholds.\n\n### Educational Qualifications, Experience & Competencies\n- Bachelor’s degree in finance/accounting or a business-related course (minimum Second-Class Honors, Upper Division).\n- Minimum CPA Part 2 (intermediate level) and working towards full qualification.\n- At least 1 year of experience in a busy accounting department.\n- Minimum B+ in K.C.S.E and specifically in Mathematics.\n- Basic understanding of accounting principles, concepts, financial statements, and general ledger.\n- Proficiency in MS Office applications.\n- Strong communication skills (written and verbal) and high attention to detail.\n- Ability to maintain confidentiality, stay organized, and remain punctual.\n\n### How to Apply\nInterested and qualified candidates should apply online through the Flexi-Personnel recruitment portal: