Job location: Nampula
About the role:
The Finance Associate will be assigned to the Accounts Department under the close supervision of the Finance Manager for Kenya, Zambia & Mozambique. Role will include but not limited to Supplier Invoice Booking, Reconciling and Adjusting Supplier Ledgers, Bank Reconciliations, and timely Recording of Transactions.
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Review of Expenses/supplier invoices in compliance with tax regulations and policy and ensure correct postings flow to SAP4HANA.
- Posting vendor invoices and payments and updating the payment request tracker to ensure there are no duplicates.
- Maintaining proper cloud filing systems of all accounting and finance documents and vouchers in a manner which ensures ease in retrieval and reference.
- Confirmation of partner and cash customer payments and approval of sales order for dispatch.
- Assist the senior finance associate with grant filing and accounting whenever called upon to provide assistance the Investor relations team.
- Reconciling Supplier and customer Accounts by reconciling monthly statements and related transactions.
- Assist the senior finance associate and tax consultant to ensure that IRPS, VAT and INSS (WHT) for employees, sales agents are filed in a timely basis. This will include checking with the Tax Authority to ensure Sun King ledger does not have arrears and penalties.
- Perform Bank and General Ledger Reconciliation to ensure that all banks have been reconciled on weekly and Monthly basis. These are bank accounts and M-Pesa wallets. This also includes ensuring the company is sufficiently funded for any payments by moving money between wallets on time.
- Sending out swift and payment advice (POPs) to suppliers and respective parties once payments have been closed in conjunction with the senior finance associate.
- Month End Close – Ensuring the depreciation run is done, Forex revaluation run, Provisions, Prepayments, Deferred revenue, Expense verification, VAT writebacks are posted accurately and on a timely basis.
- Work closely with the call center team to ensure timely M-Pesa customer refunds and reversals are done within SLA timelines and ensure the payout slips are sent in a timely basis.
- Any other duties assigned by the line manager.
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Degree in Finance, Accounting, or any other related field. Professional qualification (CPA/ACCA) is a must.
- At least 1-2 years’ work experience in finance and accounting.
- MUST BE BI-LINGUAL with a strong command of the English language.
- Must be Computer literate, proficient in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Must have strong Analytical and Communication skills.
- Team player and proactive to learn.
- Must be truthful and of high integrity.
- Must be able to work under pressure with strict deadlines and with minimal or no supervision.
- Proficient in Data Entry and Management.
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Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry.
- An open-minded, partnership culture made up of talented colleagues who are passionate by the need of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
- A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
- Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better mentor, manager, and professional through the Sun Center for Leadership.
We place great importance on sustaining a diverse, inclusive work environment.
We believe that innovation and learning comes from diversity on every spectrum. We work to make sure every Sun King team member knows that they belong, knowing that sustaining a broad workplace requires conscious effort and is a continuous journey, not an end-state.
Sun King recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes people based on their experience, skills, effort, and results. We explicitly prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, religion, caste, national origin, color, gender, marital status, family structure, sexual orientation, HIV/AIDS status, or disability.
Sun King is the world’s leading off-grid solar energy company, combining cutting-edge product design, fintech, and field operations to deliver energy access for the 1.8 billion people who live without an affordable and reliable electric-grid connection. Sun King has connected more than 20 million homes to solar power across Africa and Asia, adding over 200,000 homes each month.
Sun King makes solar products affordable to low-income households and businesses via ‘pay-as-you-go’ purchase financing. Sun King installs solar after customers pay a small deposit. Customers then make small, manageable payments of as little as US $0.11 a day via mobile money or cash.
Instead of paying for expensive, polluting, and health-damaging kerosene for lighting or diesel for power, customers unlock savings through accessing solar power and after one to two years of payments, customers own their solar equipment outright. To date, our Sun King solar products have saved customers more than $4 billion cumulatively.
Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 28,000 field agents — over 650,000 payments each day. Embedded electronics inside each Sun King device regulate usage based on payments, similar to the operation of a pre-paid mobile or electricity meter.
From cost-effective solar systems that provide home lighting and phone charging to robust solar inverters that can power high-energy appliances such as laptops, computers, refrigerators, and more, effectively acting as a full stand-in for grid power, Sun King’s products cater to a wide range of income segments and energy needs. Leveraging its proven distribution network and brand, Sun King is expanding its range of products and services to encompass clean cooking, electric mobility, entertainment, and more, aiming to address the needs of our underserved customers.
Sun King employs 2,800 full-time staff in 12 countries, with specialties spanning product design, data science, logistics, customer service, sales, software, operations, and more — all with a passion to serve off-grid families.
Sun King is committed to gender diversity in the workplace. Women represent 44% of Sun King’s workforce.
