The Role
Oversee financial management, including task automation, inventory control, compliance review, budgeting, payroll, payments, and asset management.
Summary Generated by Built In
Job Responsibilities
1. Tasks automation champion through identifying functions that can be done.
2. Inventory management (i.e., COGs/BOMs, margin reports, cost of sales, inventory control).
3. Reviewing compliance officer’s work (i.e., tax and regulatory compliance-related issues like
regulatory returns, payments, reconciliations, audits, health checks, tax clearance requests,
certificate renewals, etc).
4. Investor and donor report management.
5. Budget variance reports management.
6. Payroll processing/management including all related statutory filings and payments- e.g. WCF annual
filings and annual reports, PAYE, SDL, loan board, NSSF, etc.
7. Management of all payments for the company, including branches, subsidiaries and parents (both
domestic and foreign), ensuring that:
- Both cash and bank are properly managed in accordance with company policies.
- Review of payments are done per company policies.
- All payments are timely done, posted, and as per budget.
- All retirements are done per company policies.
- All documents are filed physically and uploaded in ERPNext timely.
- Bank reconciliations are done timely.
- Cash flow forecast is done at least weekly.
8. Accruals and prepayment management.
9. Asset management, including the fixed asset registry.
10. Intercompany transactions management, in compliance with transfer pricing policies.
Requirements
Knowledge and Experience
- Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Accounting.
- Years of Experience: At least 6+ years of experience in a related field.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Accounting.
- Years of Experience: At least 6+ years of experience in a related field.
- Other accounting experience should include one or more of: payroll, internal controls, payments,
and tax compliance.
- Experience in a leadership role will be an added advantage.
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both oral and written, in English and ideally in Swahili.
- Ability to work independently (to prioritise, multi-task, and resolve problems), with limited
supervision, and to deliver tasks accurately and on time.
- Must be highly skilled in computer productivity packages such as Microsoft Office and Google G
Suite (e.g., Gmail, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets) and ERPNext systems.
- Ability to uphold confidentiality of sensitive information.
- A passion for the food industry and social impact.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Accounting
- 6+ years of experience in a related field
- Experience in payroll, internal controls, payments, and tax compliance
- Experience in a leadership role
- Fluency in English and ideally in Swahili
- Highly skilled in Microsoft Office and Google G Suite
- Experience with ERPNext systems
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The Company
What We Do
CVPeople Tanzania is a leading provider of HR consulting and recruitment services, specializing in identifying and recruiting senior leaders and board directors to help businesses succeed.
