Job Title: Assistant Accountant – FAK
Hiring Organization: Absa Bank
Location – Locality: Nairobi
Location – Region: Kenya
Industry: Banking
Job Type: Full Time
Salary: KES
Date Posted: 08/10/2024
Absa Bank Limited (Absa) is a wholly owned subsidiary
of Barclays Africa Group Limited. Absa offers personal and business banking,
credit cards, corporate and investment banking, wealth and investment
management as well as bancassurance.
Job Summary
To prepare accurate, authentic and timely payments,
including maintaining a positive client/ supplier relationship.
Key Accountabilities
- Daily and timely reimbursement claims
processing, posting in the core system and the banking system.
- Daily and timely service provider claims payment
posting in the core system and the banking system.
- Timely commissions and refund payments
processing in the core system and the banking system.
- Preparation of the monthly Bank reconciliations
- Monthly preparation and posting of Withholding
tax journals.
- Update and prepare the Third Party Administered
Schemes monthly and any reports required.
- Assisting in month-end closure reporting
- Support the department with any other allocated
departmental roles.
Education and Experience required
- Business related bachelor’s degree.
- At least CPA section 2 qualification.
- Proven experience with at least 1 year
experience in similar function.
- Receipting, payment processing and bank
reconciliations skills.
- Demonstrate strong analytical skills.
- Ability to work under very tight deadlines.
- Skillful co-ordination in working across a wide
range of stakeholders within and outside the organization.
- Excellent written and spoken communications
skills.
- Good relationship and excellent stakeholder
management skills both across teams and upwards throughout organization.
- Willing to learn and take up challenges.
