Finance Intern

  • Nairobi, Kenya
  • 2025-0968
  • Full-time

Job Overview

 

This role is ideal for someone who has completed their degree, eager to gain deeper practical experience and contribute immediately. The successful candidate will play a supportive role within our finance department and provide assistance across various critical functions. It is a valuable opportunity to solidify one’s foundational finance skills within a supportive and professional environment.

 

She/He will gain practical experience in core finance operations, receive guidance from experienced team members, and build a stronger understanding of how a finance department operates. It's an excellent chance to bridge the gap between academic learning and a full-time professional finance role.

 


Your Tasks

Tasks and Responsibilities

 

  • Transactional Processing Support: Assisting with the accurate input and processing of financial transactions, including vendor invoices, posting vendor payments and customer receipts, updating customer statements.
  • Data Verification & Reconciliation: Supporting the verification of financial data, cross-referencing information, and assisting with various general ledger, customer and vendor accounts reconciliations to ensure accuracy.
  • Report Generation Assistance: Helping to pull data and populate templates for routine financial reports, such as daily liquidity reports, weekly expense summaries, various accounts receivables and payables reports.
  • Documentation & Record keeping: Maintain organized and accurate financial records (physical and/or digital), ensuring compliance and easy accessibility.
  • Audit Preparation Support: Assisting with the collection and organization of required documents for internal or external audit requests.
  • General Administrative Support: Providing general administrative support to the finance team, including assisting with monthly, quarterly, and annual closing procedures.
  • Ad-Hoc Tasks: Performing other tasks aimed at improving financial processes, conducting market research, or supporting new initiatives as may be assigned from time to time; all focused on providing opportunities to learn various aspects of corporate finance.

Your Profile

Qualification, Experience, Behaviours & Skills

 

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field. This role is best suited for individuals who have completed their degree.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel (e.g., VLOOKUPs, pivot tables, formulas).
  • A solid grasp of basic accounting principles and financial concepts.
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Strong attention to detail and a high degree of accuracy in all work.
  • Good organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks effectively to meet deadlines.
  • Effective written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
  • A proactive and eager-to-learn attitude, with a willingness to take direction and complete tasks efficiently.
  • Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a team environment.
  • High level of professionalism and adherence to ethical standard.
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