Summary: Accounting Jobs, AGL Jobs. Responsible for maintaining accurate accounting records, posting and reviewing journals, managing staff and intercompany ac...

Job Details

  • Deadline: 05/10/2026
  • Company: Africa Global Logistics
  • Location: Nairobi
  • Employment Type: Full Time
  • Salary: Open

Job Description

Job Title: General Accountant M/F

Date Posted: 21/09/2026

Job Type: Full Time

Job Level: Entry

Employer: Africa Global Logistics

Industry: Accounting

Salary: Open

Location: Nairobi

Country: Kenya

Deadline: 05/10/2026

Accounting Jobs, AGL Jobs. Responsible for maintaining accurate accounting records, posting and reviewing journals, managing staff and intercompany accounts, preparing payroll-related deductions and tax submissions, conducting bank reconciliations, supporting month-end closing, and resolving account discrepancies. Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or a related field, CPA(K), ACCA, CFA, or equivalent qualification. The position is based in Nairobi and requires full-time work.

Key Responsibilities

Maintain accurate books of accounts.

Posting of general accounting Journals

  • Ensure proper classification and posting of expenses into correct GL accounts.
  • Review completeness of accruals, provisions, and prepayments monthly.
  • Ensure supporting schedules for allocated accounts are prepared and shared on time.
  • Review accuracy of standing charges.
  • Conduct full trial balance review and maintain up-to-date supporting schedule
  • Ensuring journals are properly approved before booking
  • Matching general ledgers

Month-End, Annual Reporting, Audit & Budgeting

  • Ensure accurate cost allocation for assigned accounts monthly.
  • Prepare and share accrual and prepayment reports monthly.
  • Ensure all provisions are accurate, reviewed, and posted on time.
  • Provide supporting schedules during month-end, budget preparation, tax audits, and internal/external audits.
  • Support Financial Controller (FC) on reporting, including Net Working Capital (NWC) and Forex impact analysis.

Tax Filing & General Ledger Management

  • Follow up on supplier invoices rejected on iTax and ensure resolution monthly.
  • Ensure matching of VAT accounts and timely resolution of discrepancies.
  • Ensure monthly upload and reconciliation of auto-populated VAT.
  • Investigate and resolve inconsistencies between iTax and local books with clear explanations and timelines.
  • Ensure VAT and WHT are filed in good time
  • Prepare and submit payroll byproducts. Eg Nssf, Nhif, AHL,Nita and other payroll related deductions
  • Ensure clean tax accounts in SAP

Approval of Disbursement Costs and general expenses

  • Ensure all invoices are fully supported by relevant documentation (RCNs, POs, Delivery Notes, Payment Passes, Inbound Sheets, Billing).
  • Confirm that cost recovery has been done before invoice approval; Any Variances document.
  • Raise disputes with operations and follow up for timely resolution within agreed deadlines.
  • Ensure proper coding of General expenses in SAP
  • Ensure proper cost allocation of cost

Inventory Management

  • Provide reports on cyclical and year-end stock counts.
  • Support business control in inventory reconciliation and variance analysis.

Bank reconciliations

  • Prepare monthly bank reconciliations
  • Review and resolve reconciling items in bank reconciliations
  • Liaise with treasury to close outstanding items in the bank reconciliations

Other Matters

  • Any other responsibilities as may be assigned by Financial Controller or Senior Management.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in commerce or any Finance/Accounting related course.
  • CPA (K), ACCA, CFA or equivalent
  • Minimum 2 years in a similar role

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