Accounts Administrator

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Nairobi, KEN
Logistics • Transportation • Design • Automation • Manufacturing
The Role

As the world’s cities grow more complex, people’s need to move easily becomes even more important. Enabling urban flow requires talent and ambition. Together at KONE, we create the new urban reality.

Your career is a journey, and how you travel makes a difference.

It's time to make a move. Join our flow.

As a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, we believe in improving performance through inspiring, engaging and developing our people. Being a part of a global network of people, we are looking for a unique individual that would leverage working in a culture that fosters innovation and empower individuals to make a difference.

This is a unique opportunity to join a team of professionals who thrive to drive service contract sales development strategies and share best practices. If you feel you have what it takes and can add significant value to this role and department then apply for this exciting opportunity!

To enhance the efficiency and accuracy of the Accounts function by supporting daily operations, ensuring robust audit readiness, and maintaining effective internal controls.

Key Responsibilities

  • Process Financial Transactions: Accurately verify and process financial transactions, ensuring compliance with established guidelines, internal controls, and regulatory requirements.
  • Support Audit Processes: Prepare, organize, and provide accurate financial records and documentation to facilitate internal and external audits, ensuring timely submission of schedules and resolving auditor queries promptly.
  • Reconcile Accounts: Perform regular reconciliations of general ledger accounts to ensure accuracy and consistency of financial balances.
  • Assist Month-End and Year-End Closings: Support the preparation of financial reports, journals, and analyses to ensure timely and accurate closing processes.
  • Collaborate Across Departments: Coordinate with various business functions to gather, verify, and compile financial data, addressing additional requirements as needed.
  • Enhance Accounting Processes: Review and recommend improvements to accounting procedures to strengthen audit readiness and operational efficiency.
  • Maintain Organized Records: Manage a systematic filing system for financial documentation, ensuring accessibility and compliance with audit standards.
  • Provide Analytical Support: Compile financial data, reports, and analyses as requested by auditors or management to support decision-making and compliance.

Requirements

  • Qualifications: Degree or diploma in accounting, finance, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience: 2+ years in an accounts administration or bookkeeping role, with experience in audit support and financial reconciliation.
  • Skills: Strong attention to detail, proficiency in accounting software, and advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
  • Attributes: Proactive, collaborative, and able to prioritize tasks in a fast-paced environment while maintaining accuracy.

What do we offer?

  • Great dynamic team promoting a collaborative environment
  • Total reward elements that engage and motivate our employees and help us make KONE a great place to work
  • Comprehensive learning and development programs covering a wide range of professional skills
  • Engaging job with a position description and clear targets
  • Regular feedback through performance discussions
  • Opportunities for individual development
  • Mentoring and coaching programs
  • Flexibility, trust, and respect
  • Value-based culture, behaviors, and ethics
  • Sustainability and innovation
  • Working for a successful organization

Candidates must upload an updated copy of their CV to the application.

At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.

Read more on www.kone.com/careers

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The Company
HQ: Espoo
31,273 Employees
Year Founded: 1910

What We Do

At KONE, our mission is to improve the flow of urban life. This means understanding urbanization and, together with our partners and customers, helping cities to become better and more sustainable places to live. As a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, KONE provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization to add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Through more effective People Flow®, we make people's journeys safe, convenient and reliable, in taller, smarter buildings. Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, we operate in more than 60 countries around the world, employ over 60,000 people and serve 550,000 customers. In 2022, KONE had annual sales of EUR 10.9 billion. KONE class B shares are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. in Finland.

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