Accountant I – 5 Posts at County Government of Nyeri

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Verifying vouchers and committal documents per laid down rules and regulations.
• Data capturing, maintaining of primary records such as cashbooks, ledgers, vote books, registers, and preparation of simple management reports e.g. imprest and expenditure returns, etc.
• Responsible for the safe custody of government records and assets under him/her, analysis of the below-the-line accounts, and may be deployed as a cashier where duties will entail receiving duly processed payments and receipt vouchers.
• Writing cheques and posting payments and receipt vouchers in the cash books.
• Balancing and ruling the cash books daily.
• Arranging for withdrawal of cash for office use and ensuring the safety of the same at all times.
• Extracting and providing cash liquidity analysis.
• Ensuring the security of cheques and checkbooks.
• Preparing of expenditure and Authority to Incur Expenditure (AIE) funding returns quarterly.
• Preparing Appropriation In Aid (AIA) returns on a quarterly basis paying personal and merchant claims guided by cash balances in the cash books and treasury regulations.
• Receipting of all money due and payable to the Government.

Requirements for Appointment:

• Be a Kenyan citizen (attach ID).
• A candidate must have a bachelor’s Degree in Commerce (Accounting or Finance option) or Business Administration (Accounting option) and passed Part III of the Certified Public Accountants (CPA) Examination.
• Registration with the Institute of Certified Public Accountants will be an added advantage.
• Served as an Accountant for a minimum period of three (3) years in a relevant and comparable position.