General Accountant
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Africa Global Logistics (AGL) is hiring a General Accountant in Nairobi, Kenya. The role involves maintaining accurate accounting records, posting and reviewing journals, managing intercompany accounts, preparing payroll-related deductions and tax submissions, conducting bank reconciliations, and supporting month-end closing. The position is full-time, entry-level, and the application deadline is 05/10/2026.
- Full-time entry-level accounting role based in Nairobi
- Deadline to apply is 05/10/2026
- Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting or related field
- CPA(K), ACCA, CFA or equivalent qualification required
- Involves month-end closing, tax filing, VAT reconciliation and audit support
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- Plan to submit before the listed deadline: 2026-10-05.
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Original source 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
- 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