{"id":107791,"date":"2026-08-14T08:52:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T08:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/uncategorized\/restaurant-group-junior-accountant-hospitality\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T08:52:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T08:52:53","slug":"restaurant-group-junior-accountant-hospitality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/jobs\/nairobi\/restaurant-group-junior-accountant-hospitality\/","title":{"rendered":"Restaurant Group Junior Accountant (Hospitality)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\/\", \"@type\": \"JobPosting\", \"title\": \"Restaurant Group Junior Accountant (Hospitality)\", \"description\": \"The role will be responsible for financial controls, reporting, supplier and stock management, tax compliance, and ensuring accurate financial records across all restaurant locations.\\nKey Responsibilities\\nManage supplier and accounts payable processes, including approved supplier management, supplier reconciliations, supplier statements, pricing reviews, and timely processing of supplier payments.\\nOversee stock control across all restaurant locations by conducting regular stocktakes, reviewing daily stock counts, investigating variances, and working with operations teams to strengthen inventory controls and manage costs.\\nMonitor daily cash, card, and delivery aggregator collections, ensuring restaurant banking reconciles accurately with POS reports, banking slips, and third-party statements, and promptly investigating any discrepancies.\\nMaintain accurate accounting records in the accounting system, including purchases, sales, expenses, banking transactions, and other financial entries, and prepare monthly management accounts, financial statements, and financial analysis for management.\\nManage tax and statutory compliance, including preparation of monthly VAT returns and reconciliations, reconciliation of VAT balances against KRA iTax data, withholding tax filings, and resolution of any discrepancies.\\nMonitor the timely renewal of restaurant licences, statutory permits, and other regulatory requirements while maintaining complete and accurate financial documentation for audits and inspections.\\nSupervise the stock controller and work closely with restaurant management and operations teams to strengthen financial controls, improve operational efficiency, and support management with financial and commercial decision-making.\\nKey Requirements\\nCPA K, ACCA, or CIMA qualification.\\nMinimum of 3 years\u2019 post-qualification accounting experience, preferably within the hospitality, restaurant, retail, or multi-site operations sector.\\nStrong hands-on experience with QuickBooks Online and financial reporting.\\nGood working knowledge of Kenyan VAT, withholding tax, KRA iTax, and statutory compliance requirements.\\nExperience in stock control, supplier management, cash and banking reconciliations, and financial controls.\\nStrong analytical, problem-solving, and organisational skills, with a hands-on approach and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced operational environment.\", \"datePosted\": \"2026-08-14\", \"hiringOrganization\": {\"@type\": \"Organization\", \"name\": \"Summit Recruitment and Search\"}, \"jobLocation\": {\"@type\": \"Place\", \"address\": {\"@type\": \"PostalAddress\", \"addressLocality\": \"Nairobi\", \"addressCountry\": \"KE\"}}, \"directApply\": true, \"validThrough\": \"2026-09-19T23:59:59\", \"employmentType\": \"FULL_TIME\"}<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Company:<\/strong> Summit Recruitment and Search<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> Nairobi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Type:<\/strong> Full Time<\/p>\n<p><strong>Apply Before:<\/strong> 2026-09-19<\/p>\n<h3>Job Description<\/h3>\n<p>The role will be responsible for financial controls, reporting, supplier and stock management, tax compliance, and ensuring accurate financial records across all restaurant locations.<br \/>Key Responsibilities<br \/>Manage supplier and accounts payable processes, including approved supplier management, supplier reconciliations, supplier statements, pricing reviews, and timely processing of supplier payments.<br \/>Oversee stock control across all restaurant locations by conducting regular stocktakes, reviewing daily stock counts, investigating variances, and working with operations teams to strengthen inventory controls and manage costs.<br \/>Monitor daily cash, card, and delivery aggregator collections, ensuring restaurant banking reconciles accurately with POS reports, banking slips, and third-party statements, and promptly investigating any discrepancies.<br \/>Maintain accurate accounting records in the accounting system, including purchases, sales, expenses, banking transactions, and other financial entries, and prepare monthly management accounts, financial statements, and financial analysis for management.<br \/>Manage tax and statutory compliance, including preparation of monthly VAT returns and reconciliations, reconciliation of VAT balances against KRA iTax data, withholding tax filings, and resolution of any discrepancies.<br \/>Monitor the timely renewal of restaurant licences, statutory permits, and other regulatory requirements while maintaining complete and accurate financial documentation for audits and inspections.<br \/>Supervise the stock controller and work closely with restaurant management and operations teams to strengthen financial controls, improve operational efficiency, and support management with financial and commercial decision-making.<br \/>Key Requirements<br \/>CPA K, ACCA, or CIMA qualification.<br \/>Minimum of 3 years\u2019 post-qualification accounting experience, preferably within the hospitality, restaurant, retail, or multi-site operations sector.<br \/>Strong hands-on experience with QuickBooks Online and financial reporting.<br \/>Good working knowledge of Kenyan VAT, withholding tax, KRA iTax, and statutory compliance requirements.<br \/>Experience in stock control, supplier management, cash and banking reconciliations, and financial controls.<br \/>Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organisational skills, with a hands-on approach and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced operational environment.<\/p>\n<h3>How to Apply<\/h3>\n<p>Interested and qualified? Go to Summit Recruitment and Search on summitrecruitment-search.com to apply<br \/>Build your CV for free. Download in different templates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjobmag.co.ke\/apply-now\/1306833\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"display:inline-block;padding:10px 20px;background:#2271b1;color:#fff;text-decoration:none;border-radius:4px;\">Apply Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p><small>Source: MyJobMag<\/small><\/p>\n<p><!-- job-expiry: 2026-09-19 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company: Summit Recruitment and Search Location: Nairobi Job Type: Full Time Apply Before: 2026-09-19 Job Description The role will be responsible for financial controls, reporting, supplier and stock management, tax compliance, and ensuring accurate financial records across all restaurant locations.Key ResponsibilitiesManage supplier and accounts payable processes, including approved supplier management, supplier reconciliations, supplier statements, pricing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1408,1409],"tags":[1425,1413,1412,1459],"class_list":["post-107791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jobs","category-nairobi","tag-full-time","tag-job-listing","tag-myjobmag","tag-summit-recruitment-and-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}