Junior Accountant

About The Role

We are looking for a Junior Accountant to join our friendly and geo-dispersed team which is currently located across several offices around Africa and the UK. This role will be supporting and reporting directly to the Accounting Manager.

The role will initially focus on supporting accounting activities, treasury reporting, assisting in month end closure activities, account payable management, invoice verification, supplier verification as well as providing support in supplier balance reconciliations.

Responsibilities

1. Responsible for weekly treasury reporting to the management and ensuring there is always sufficient cash balance for day to day working capital requirements
2. Posting of bank transactions and reconciling bank balance on accounting software with bank statements
3. Posting of month end journals including but not limited to accruals, prepayment, intercompany transactions
4. Assist with accurate and timely closure of month end activities
5. Support in preparation of internal and other financial reports
6. Verifying invoices and ensuring appropriate documentation i.e. workings or agreement
7. Work with cross functional teams to resolve vendor and invoice processing matters
8. Timely reconciliation of vendor payables
9. Preparation of bank mandate and the first point of contact with the bankers
10. Responsible for setting up payments on banking platforms.
11. Actively monitoring the AP inbox and Approval Max (automated system) and addressing all AP related queries
12. Ensuring correct and consistent coding of expense and department in Approval Max.
13. Suggesting ways to improve the day-to-day accounting processes
14. Other Ad hoc duties as may reasonably be requested by Accounting Manager and CFO

Minimum Requirements

1. Bachelor’s degree in accounting or related field
2. Having 1-2 years of experience in accounting field
3. Invoice and/or payments processing knowledge
4. Knowledge of accounts payable procedures and regulations
5. Familiar with IFRS and withholding tax systems is beneficial
6. Experience with working on Xero, Approval Max software
7. Ability to work independently and strong time management skills
8. Strong communication skills and attention to detail
9. Intermediate to advanced excel proficiency
10. Strong data entry skills
11. Team Player and self-starter
12. Strong interpersonal and business partnering skills
13. Able to Organise, Prioritise and take ownership of the task assigned

Benefits - Why join Kuda?

At Kuda, our people are the heart of our business, so we prioritize their welfare. We offer a wide range of competitive benefits in areas including but not limited to:

1. A great and upbeat work environment populated by a multinational team
2. Career Development & Growth
3. Access to world-class L&D
4. We are advocates of work-life balance and offer a remote working option for certain roles
5. Competitive annual leave
6. Competitive Pension
7. Perkbox
8. Life Assurance
9. and more…