Career Opportunity: Accountant for WeTu (Kisumu, Kenya)

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Fabianna Mueti

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Jun 12, 2020, 4:27:44 AM6/12/20
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Greetings from the edge.

We support fast-growing innovative businesses around East Africa in building highly-effective teams, including recruitment.
We currently have an exciting job role available and are seeking your support.

We are hiring for an exciting career opportunity for one of our clients; an Accountant to be based in Kisumu for WeTu. Please feel free to forward this to anyone in your network that may be interested or may know anyone that is.
 
About WeTu:
WeTu improves lives by delivering solutions in clean energy, safe water, and mobility around Lake Victoria.
We are a team of about 25 staff with a social enterprise and start-up culture spread across the seven locations, Kisumu, Nairobi, and Munich, Germany (where the board of the company is located).
Read more about WeTu on their website 
 
About the role:
As the Accountant, you will lead the accounting department at WeTu, driving full visibility and accuracy of all our financial information to help inform key decisions in our fast-growing, ambitious, and innovative business. This role is perfect for a self-driven, detail-oriented person who loves a dynamic business setting and enjoys keeping things organized and is also enthusiastic about rural innovation to create impact.
 
Our ideal candidate:
- Has at least 3-5 years of accounting experience
- Has worked in a high-volume sales-driven environment and navigate sales reconciliations, ETRs, VAT, and inventory with ease. 
- Has a track record of successfully handling a wide range of responsibilities within accounting, including payroll, bank reconciliations, posting supplier invoices and managing accounts payable, reconciling and auditing petty cash, statutory requirements, etc.
- Has great interpersonal skills and works effectively with non-finance teams to get accurate information from them and train them on following laid out procedures
- Is excited about working to impact lives in rural communities along Lake Victoria and is ready to travel regularly across rural locations

Job Description (PDF Download): https://bit.ly/WeTuAccountingJD
Application Form:  http://bit.ly/WeTuAccounting

WeTu is partnering with edge in this recruitment. For any questions, feel free to reach out to fabi...@edgeperformance.co.ke 

Please share the role widely in your Accounting & Finance and social innovation enthusiast circles! If you're interested, let me know if you have any questions/clarifications.
 
Thank you for your continued support.
 
Regards,

Fabianna Mueti | edge


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