The Senior Accountant oversees finance operations, ensuring compliance, preparing reports, managing accounting processes, and supporting audits. They focus on quality and efficiency in a complex business environment, while leading junior team members and ensuring collaboration across departments.
Role purpose
• Monitor and improve P&S performance by preparing periodical reports and analysis, discuss underlying assumptions, reasons for major deviations, identify key risks and exposure and taking a supporting role in the budget, forecast and strategic processes.
• To secure a solid bedrock for finance activities in Kenya
• Expected to deliver quality result in fast changing business environment
• Deliver high quality set of accounting data to facilitate group, statutory and tax reporting
• Support local Finance activities and coordinate with EFO and GFO
• Coordinate compliance processes in Kenya
• Protect Syngenta assets in Kenya
• Represent Syngenta towards external auditors and local tax authorities
• Support the finance integration activities
• Ensure compliance with the Companies Act and other laws
• Ensure integrity of the countries' compliance program with corporate and local policies and procedures
• Continuously monitor emerging internal control risks and update existing controls and processes to respond to these risks
• Detect and report to appropriate Syngenta management any violation or deviation from standards and practices including the code of conduct, laws and other misconduct
Requirements
ACCOUNTABILITIES
• Lead the accounting operations process, which includes: Fixed assets, Payables, Accounts receivables and Transactions processing on ERP system, payment
• Prepare and analyze Ledger Accounting, Statutory Accounting and Reporting and Tax Reporting and collaborate effectively with both Business Facing Finance and outsourcing companies
• Prepare and Record relevant journal entries in local entity books
• Uses best practices and knowledge to improve processes/services
• Support cost awareness and cost control throughout the organization.
• Continuously improve the management reporting process, systems and formats.
• May direct and check the work of more junior team members.
• Timely delivery of relevant management reports and /or services to ensure accurate recording of all business transactions in ERP system according to the IFRS rules for group reporting and local GAAP rules for statutory reporting.
• Support continuous improvement and efficiency in relevant processes and Service Excellence
• Expected to deliver quality result in fast changing business environment
• Active involvement in month-end closing and year-end processes
• Active communication with other departments
• Cooperation with auditors
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders
• Reconciling balance sheet ledgers to sub-ledgers on AP/AR/GL and clearing accounts
• Ensure the basic controls are performed on time
• Support the finance integration activation and ensure activities are completed on time
• Prepare necessary calculations required for legal entity integration and ensure transactions are appropriately recorded
• Support the preparation of statutory, tax reports, returns in accordance with local GAAP, Tax regulations and Group standards.
• Ensure all company records are up to date in accordance with Companies Act
Critical technical, professional and personal capabilities
• Strong controls and compliance focus
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• The ability to maintain independence, autonomy and confidentiality
• Ability to work in virtual, multinational and cross functional teams
• Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, high pressure environment
• Strong accounting, analytical, and research skills
• Strong planning and execution skills
Critical leadership capabilities
• Can demonstrate examples of clear achievement against performance goals
• Ensures plans with resources, milestones, measures
• Builds up quickly and maintains networks with relevant customers and stakeholders
• Displays positive attitude to change and progress
• Follows up and checks progress – confronts performance progress directly
• Gives and seeks feedback systematically and constructively plans, organizes and monitors performance to meet objectives
• Communicates and influences to get commitment compellingly
Knowledge, Experience & capabilities
Critical knowledge:
• Bachelor/HBO or Master's degree in economics, accounting or business administration.
• Professional accounting qualification – CPA, ACCA
• Good understanding of supply and manufacturing concepts.
• Excellent in English
• Working knowledge of SAP.
• Master in Excel, data-mining.
Preferred knowledge:
• Masters Degree in Accounting, Finance or Data Analysis
• SAP and SAC (SAP Analytics Cloud) knowledge
Critical experience:
• Minimum 1 - 2 years’ experience in a controlling function, preferably within the Flowers industry or a logistic- or manufacturing environment.
• Minimum of 2 - 4 years’ experience with accounting and reporting within a complex organization.
• Experience of working and interacting across multiple locations and cultures.
• Experience with SOX, IFRS and financial Compliance.
Preferred experience:
• Experience of working and interacting across multiple locations and cultures
• FP&A background
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