Finance and Accounting · Full-time
Direct employerFinancial Controller-Ant,Sez and Yuesen M/F

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Role overview
Africa Global Logistics (AGL) is hiring a Financial Controller for their Nairobi office. This full-time role is suited for someone with experience in financial management and team leadership in a busy organisation.
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What you will do
- Lead, coach and appraise the finance team and their direct reports.
- Ensure clear job descriptions and KPIs are signed by team members.
- Participate in recruiting team members.
- Hold and document monthly supplier and accounting team meetings.
- Approve leave requests for direct reports and their teams.
- Collaborate with AGL SEZ, ANT & YUSEN AEA operations teams and represent Finance in engagements.
- Review General Ledgers regularly to ensure compliance with internal procedures, IAS and IFRS.
- Ensure proper custody of accounting documents and records.
- Match accounts, review journal vouchers, staff accounts, unallocated credits, deposits, intercompany and sundry accounts.
- Ensure bookings comply with tax and internal requirements and adhere to asset capitalization policy.
- Review workshop costs, controls and stock reporting.
- Manage cost allocation, accruals, prepayments, and review standing charges.
- Review costs with operations teams to align with budgets and support documentation.
- Prepare draft monthly P&L with comments on budget and prior months for review.
- Share final P&Ls with business units and assist with statistics and commentary.
- Prepare monthly and annual reports including OR/NWC estimates, ETENI submissions, forex impact analysis, turnover comments, workshop reports, consolidation packages, and IFRS 16 reporting.
- Approve invoices, disbursements, cash vouchers, journal entries and foreign exchange differences according to approval matrix.
- Manage daily cash validation, custody of cash office key, monthly and surprise cash counts.
- Validate payments and sign cheques as per approval matrix.
- Review bank reconciliations and treasury adjustments.
- Manage file unsecuring, termination and credit note validation as per matrix.
Requirements
- Hold a business degree.
- Be a CPA (K), ACCA, CFA or equivalent.
- Have working knowledge of SAP.
- Have at least five years of experience in a similar role in a busy organisation.
How to apply
Apply through the employer's official contact. The employer has not published a closing date.