Reports to: FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT
Direct Reports: Assistant Receivable Accountants
Division: FINANCE
Department: FINANCE
Workstation: RESTAURANT SUPPORT CENTER (KENYA)
Job Purpose
To safeguard company revenue across all stores and digital channels, ensure complete and accurate revenue recognition, strengthen internal controls, optimize cash flow, and manage banking & liquidity operations across the company. This role bridges operations, finance, POS systems, digital aggregators, and banking partners.
Key responsibilities
A) Receivables Role
• Reconcile POS sales vs cash, card, mobile money, and delivery aggregator settlements.
• Monitor store-level over/short variances and investigate discrepancies.
• Review voids, refunds, discounts, and price overrides.
• Reconcile aggregator reports to POS and validate commissions and deductions.
• Detect ghost transactions, duplicate refunds, and unauthorized discounts.
• Lead periodic store revenue audits and support fraud investigations.
• Prepare daily revenue dashboards and variance analysis reports.
• Liase with merchants for any reversals and timely CDM error resolutions
• Manage receivables Ensuring timely collection of all merchants, aggregators and corporate dues
• Timely reporting on AOD and aggregators cost of Incidents and ensuring full recovery
• Strengthen POS and revenue control frameworks.
• Ensure compliance with IFRS revenue recognition standards and VAT regulations.
• Support internal and external audits.
• Develop and maintain SOPs for store revenue handling.
Treasury Role
• Prepare weekly and monthly cash flow forecasts.
• Monitor daily cash positions and optimize working capital.
• Manage banking relationships and negotiate merchant rates and charges.
• Oversee loan covenant compliance and interest payments (if applicable).
• Manage FX exposure where applicable and ensure cash-in-transit controls.
• Assist in cashflow planning and forecasting
Dimensions
Financial Impact
1. Zero revenue leakage and timely receivable collections
Assets
Nil
People
Direct: Assistant Receivables Accountants | Interns
External Contacts
• ERP, POS & other service providers
• Yum
• Aggregators |Merchants |Banks
Educational Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or Economics.
• CPA or ACCA qualification required.
Related Job Experience/Qualifications:
• 5 years’ experience in QSR, Retail, or FMCG finance.
• Strong POS system experience.
• Advanced Excel and data analytics capability
• Experience managing multi-branch operations.
Technical skills:
• Familiarity with various accounting systems e.g Sage, Dynamics
• Programming & Coding – Python/R
Behavioural skills:
• Good interpersonal skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability
• Excellent communication skills
• High attention to detail
• Ability to work as a team and collaborate cross-functionally
• Curious, proactive, and data-driven mindset
Work environment:
• Office-based with occasional field visits as required.
• May involve handling sensitive and time-critical matters.