Junior Accountant at Kuda

About The Role

We are looking for a Junior Accountant to join our friendly and geo-dispersed team which is currently located across several offices around Africa and the UK. This role will be supporting and reporting directly to the Senior Financial Accountant.

This is an exciting opportunity to be actively involved in establishing accounts payable approach in a fast-growing international business. The role will initially focus on supporting of accounting activities, treasury reporting and assisting in month end closure activities.  

In addition, you will also be responsible for improvement of Kuda’s accounting processes by suggesting ways to improve the day-to-day accounting processes

As the business expands into multiple operational markets you will be required to support transactions across different regions.

To execute this function, the role holder will have the following responsibilities:

Responsibilities

• Responsible for weekly treasury reporting to the management and ensuring there is always sufficient cash balance for day to day working capital requirements
• Posting of bank transactions and reconciling bank balance on accounting software with bank statements
• Ensuring correct and consistent coding of expense and department in Xero.
• Posting of month end journals including but not limited to accruals, prepayment, intercompany transactions
• Assist with accurate and timely closure of month end activities
• Support in preparation of internal and other financial reports
• Suggesting ways to improve the day-to-day accounting processes
• Other Ad hoc duties as may reasonably be requested by Senior Financial Accountant and CFO

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or related field
• Having 1-2 years of experience in accounting field 
• Invoice and/or payments processing knowledge 
• Knowledge of accounts payable procedures and regulations
• Familiar with IFRS and withholding tax systems is beneficial 
• Experience with working on Xero, Approval Max software and Microsoft Dynamics is preferred but not essential
• Ability to work independently and strong time management skills 
• Strong communication skills and attention to detail 
• Intermediate to advanced excel proficiency
• Strong data entry skills 
• Team Player and self-starter 
• Strong interpersonal and business partnering skills 
• Able to Organise, Prioritise and take ownership of the task assigned

Benefits

Benefits - Why join Kuda?

At Kuda, our people are the heart of our business, so we prioritize their welfare. We offer a wide range of competitive benefits in areas including but not limited to:

• A great and upbeat work environment populated by a multinational team
• Career Development & Growth
• Access to world-class L&D
• We are advocates of work-life balance and offer a remote working option for certain roles
• Competitive annual leave
• Competitive Pension
• Perkbox
• Life Assurance
• and more…