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AERC Accounts Assistant Job vacancy in Kenya 2019 

Career Employment AERC Accounts Assistant Nairobi kenya Feb 2019 

African Economic Research Consortium (AERC)

Vacancy Announcement: Accounts Assistant(Temporary Position)

African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) is a premier capacity building institution devoted to the advancement of research and training to inform economic policies in Sub-Saharan Africa. AERC, now 29 years in existence was formed to address a glaring gap in economic policy analysis and research, coupled with a need to strengthen postgraduate training in economics, in sub-Saharan Africa.

Reporting to the Accountant, the primary purpose of this role will be to provide support to the Finance and Administration Division for a period of three to six months.

The duties and responsibilities have been outlined below: –

• Periodic reconciliation of the GL accounts and the respective subsidiary ledger.


• Reconciliation of staff advance accounts including verification of receipts, supporting documents etc.


• Reconciliation of vendor accounts and follow up on outstanding issues.


• Follow up on ERP outstanding payment vouchers to be forwarded to finance for approval and payment.


• Assist in processing of purchase invoices, PV’s and journal entries in ERP.


• Confirming that invoices received from procurement have all supporting documents necessary for payment.


• Following up on inspection of services rendered/receipt of goods to enable posting of LPO’s by procurement for payment.


• Following up on unpaid invoices from procurement.


• Reconciliation and follow up of staff petty cash advances.


• Stamping of paid payment vouchers and all supporting documents.


• Filing of payment vouchers and other finance documents.


• Compiling copies of current contracts to ease payment processing for service providers.


• Attaching of payment remittances to respective payment vouchers after payment processing.


• Scanning and forwarding payment remittances for administration to suppliers, staff etc.


• Distribution of payment remittance for programmes to Programme Administrators.


• Recording of approved payment vouchers in their respective bank account register books


• Perform any other duties that may be assigned.

All applications should be sent to recruitment@aercafrica.org by Friday February 8th, 2019.

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