Accounting And Finance Specialist, Kenya-Preferred By Nature

About the job

Headquartered in Denmark, Preferred by Nature is a non-profit organisation that works for sustainable land use and climate-friendly solutions. With 310+ staff around the world, our projects build capacity, raise awareness, conserve nature, and streamline sustainability through innovation. We focus our work on forest and climate impact commodities and related sectors.

Do you have a passion for numbers and the environment? Do you want to make an impact on sustainability by ensuring that our books are in order, that invoices are paid, and salary is handled efficiently? If so, then you might be the match for our role as Accounting and Finance Specialist based in Kenya.

What you can expect as Accounting and Finance Specialist at Preferred by Nature:

As our Accounting and Finance Specialist, your integrity will play a key role in the preparation of payroll and payment to social contributions as well as filing and submitting authority-related requests. Your professionalism, diligence, and sense of good governance will help you in preparing our bookkeeping documents and calculations as well as recording financial transactions in Preferred by Nature’s finance system. Finally, your communication skills as well as your intercultural skills will help you establish trusting relationships with internal and external partners in our operations across Africa as well as the rest of the world.

Working with us will provide you with unique opportunities. To highlight just a few of them:

Room for growth by enhancing your accounting and finance skills.
Support from colleagues so you feel like part of a team even though you work remotely.
A truly international environment of friendly and passionate people who work with us to make a difference in the world.
A high degree of flexibility, so while we in finance have more deadlines than many of our colleagues you will have a lot of flexibility to design your own workday.

Your ability and willingness to learn and take on new tasks will play an important part in your first year with us, so here is what you can expect:

Within the first three months you will:

Use your general knowledge and good adaptation ability to quickly learn how to use our IT systems – Sales Force (operating system) and Finance Force (accounting system)
Understand the nature and logic of all our transactions, checking expense reports, issuing sales invoices, making payments, and preparing payroll.
Prioritize all tasks according to tax, salary, and social contributions deadlines.

Within the first six months you will:

Be responsible for doing monthly / quarterly and year-end closing according to group timelines and with the support of colleagues.
Enable us to better control payroll and tax by taking over the task from our external advisors.
Start booking transactions in Ghana (tax and payroll are done by local advisor)
Have established good relations with stakeholders internally and externally, consult on more appropriate implementation in current processes with the global team.

Within the first year you will:

Oversee the audits of Preferred by Nature in Kenya.
Work independently and cover all accounting work in Kenya and Ghana
Support the global team for the tax study of Kenya and Ghana by connecting with the local tax advisors, and other tasks, if any.

Important that you:

Have a bachelor’s degree or equivalent in finance, accounting, or related field.
Have 5-8 years of experience working with finance or accounting.
Fluent in English – verbally and in writing
Full proficiency in the use of the MS Office package (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
Strong general understanding of administrative IT systems, and the ability to learn to work with new programs fast.

Would also be great, but not necessary, if you: