Accountant - Segera Retreat

KENYA | FULL TIME

By Appointment is proud to be the exclusive recruiter for Segera, a pioneering eco-retreat and conservation hub in Laikipia, Kenya, dedicated to sustainable development under the 4Cs of Community, Commerce, Conservation, and Culture.

The Accountant will support the Chief Financial Officer in managing full-spectrum financial operations, including reporting, compliance, payroll, and reconciliations across both ranch and tourism divisions. This role requires hands-on oversight of statutory returns, budgeting, and audits, while also providing leadership to the finance team and ensuring strong internal controls are maintained.

Post : Accountant

Location : Segera, Laikipia County

Reporting to : Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

Vision and Mission of Segera



Mission

Segera's mission is to invest in research, listen to the experiences of local communities and stakeholders, and then implement what they learn to create a sustainable, ecologically, and socially responsible retreat that protects and preserves the integrity of the ecosystem found within it. Segera promotes dialogue, involvement, and creative expression, and serves as a model for the concept of a healthy ecosphere.

Vision & Goals

Jochen Zeitz acquired Segera in 2005 to help protect this unique environment from poaching and land exploitation. The Zeitz Foundation has taken up Eco-Management under the 4C ideals of Community, Commerce, Conservation, and Culture, turning over a new leaf in restoring the region's beauty and enlisting indigenous community cooperation in maintaining its cultural past. Segera remains dedicated to this strategy and the conservation of the environment and its resources.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensure guest invoices are promptly and accurately prepared and matched with supporting documents. Ensure the ETR is prepared.
• Ensure Reconciliation of accounts receivable and payments are followed promptly.
• Cow sale & associated sale reconciliations and monthly headcount reports are prepared.
• Prepare reports on all bills posted by managers on base camp and subsequent payments and postings,
• Ensure supplier invoices are duly checked for appropriate supports including Requisitions, LPO’S, delivery notes, G.R. notes and correctly entered in QuickBooks.
• Send proof of payments to suppliers.
• Reconciliations and review of monthly suppliers’ balance with statements and seeking senior management approval for payments on Base Camp.
• Post payroll Journals
• Checking payroll reports
• Ensure salaries and wages control accounts reconciles with the payroll software.
• Ensure posting of petty cash vouchers are duly signed /authorized and correctly posted. Petty cash to be physically verified at random basis.
• Ensure monthly fuel reports are prepared, analyzed and discrepancies reported.
• Responsible for the identification, documentation and implementation of approved processes and controls related to accounts
• Prepare reconciliations and journal entries for complicated transactions.
• Respond to financial enquiries by gathering, analyzing, summarizing, and interpreting data
• Closely monitor fixed asset movement schedule.
• Ensure bank reconciliations are done on monthly basis and any discrepancy be duly documented and resolved
• End month stock take on ranch and tourism are carried out. Any discrepancy noted be analyzed and reported.
• Ensure the fixed asset register is updated.
• Batch preparations, review and seeking of approval from senior management in Base Camp.
• Monitor expenditure and comparison of variance with budgeted figures- -both ranch and tourism.
• Coordinate external and internal audit. Ensure books of accounts (QB) are in agreements with the audited accounts.
• Delegate and monitor financial responsibilities to the accounting team
• Assisting the CFO in preparations of monthly management report
• Budget preparations.
• Monthly cashflow planning for Taxes Payable, Salaries and wages, Supplier Payments, Debt Collections and other likely income.
• Generating the monthly ETR Reports, filling the VAT returns in time and reconciling the VAT Control accounts to the VAT Returns.
• Online filing of WHT returns are done on timely basis.
• Ensure that catering levy returns are duly filed and payments made.
• Ensure timely filling and correct payments of all statutories including Installments Tax, Corporations Tax,NSSF,NHIF,PAYE,VAT,WHT & Catering Levy .
• Ensure all statutory accounts are in agreement& duly reconciled with the accounting records (QuickBooks).
• Ensure all correspondence, in liaison with the CFO, is responded to on timely basis. This would particularly cover KRA & secretarial matters
• Any other duties that may be assigned by managements from time to time.

Skills experience and attributes

• Bachelors degree in accounting or finance option
• CPA K is a MUST
• MUST possess 5+ years experience in similar position
• Excellent knowledge in Microsoft excel
• Able to work in a team and produce quality output under tight deadlines
• Relevant skills in Accounting software e.g. ERP solutions or quick books
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Present a professional appearance and attitude at all times.
• Focused on the activity or job at hand.
• Display good and sound judgment.
• Integrity, flexible approaches to work coupled with enthusiasm, commitment and energy.
• Service orientated.
• Attention to detail.
• Strong social skills.
• Display willingness and ability to learn.
• Pay attention to personal hygiene and appearance.
• Exude confidence at all times.
• Willingness to subscribe to the company’s 4 C’s and the 4 key principles of being fair, honest, positive and creative at all levels of work.
• Display cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.
  

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