BIMAS Kenya Limited a renowned microfinance organisation seeks to fill the positions below:
Accounts Assistant
Reports to: Finance Manager
Duty station: Head Office (In Embu)
Overall Responsibility: To ensure financial transactions are accurately and completely recorded
Duties and Responsibilities
- Maintaining all the essentials books of accounts
- Maintaining cashbooks
- Reconcile cashbooks with bank statements and forward any reconciling items in time.
- Check that all the passbooks handled are reconciled
- Ensure reconciliation of loanees listing is done and on time
- Make all the necessary preparations for the External audits
- Ensure safe custody of cheque books currently in use
- Production of cash balances on a weekly basis.
- Prepare cheque payment vouchers and write cheques
- Process, remit and prepare returns of statutory deductions
- Filing of documents
- Any other duties as assigned
Qualifications and Experience
- CPA II and or relevant bachelor’s Degree
- Must have at least ( 1) one year experience within the financial/microfinance sector
- Proficiency in computer packages
- Minimum of a C in KCSE
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- A person of high integrity
- Certificate of good conduct is mandatory for this position
Agency Clerk
Reports to: Finance Manager and administratively to the Branch Head
Duty station: Branch office
Overall Responsibility: To ensure cash transactions comply with the cash management policy.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Timely and accurate posting of cash transactions
- Daily cash reconciliations
- Ensure that the relevant agency / cash transaction books are up to date
- Receive cash from clients and disbursing of loan in cash to clients while adhering to the cash management policy.
- Maintaining on a daily basis a list of all cash received and cash disbursed.
- Ensuring all cash is well recorded and stored as per the cash management policy
- Responding to customer queries and advising them accordingly
- Growing the agency business and ensuring on a daily basis a minimum of 20 clients are served
- Filing of documents
- Data entry
- Any other duties as assigned
Qualifications and experience
- CPA II
- Must have at least ( 1) one year experience within the financial/microfinance sector
- Proficiency in computer packages
- Minimum of a C in KCSE
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- A person of high integrity
- Certificate of good conduct is mandatory for this position
Loan Officers
Reports to: Branch Manager
Duty station: Branch office
Loan Officer Job Responsibilities
- Sustainable growth in accounts of an active clientele base through communication and sales of products and services to enable the branch perform to its expectations.
- Maintenance and growth of a healthy credit portfolio through prudent loan administration, management and compliance with policies, procedures and best practice.
- Preparation and presentation of comprehensive, timely & reliable reports to provide information, aid in decision making and gauge performance of both the officer and the branch
- Preparation and maintenance of records and valuables by ensuring that all the documents are filed and kept in a systematic manner for easier tracking & retrieval.
Qualifications
- Candidate must possess:-
- Be 25 years and above
- Be a holder of at least a diploma in co-operative management or its equivalent.
- Have a Minimum of a C plain at KCSE
- Have at least 2 years relevant experience
- Should be willing to ride a motorbike ( those with valid riding licence will have an added advantage)
- Holder of certificate of good conduct.
