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POSITION TITLE: Accounts Payable Clerk
COUNTRY: Rwanda
LOCATION: Kigali
RESPONSIBLE TO: Finance Manager
STATUS: Full Time
SUPERVISORY CAPACITY: N/A
DATE: May 2026
Gasmeth Energy MISSION:
Gasmeth Energy is to develop and produce methane from Lake Kivu in a safe, efficient, and environmentally sound manner. The Company will distribute compressed natural gas (CNG) throughout the country, reducing or removing environmental pollution using cleaner, greener gas, displacing liquid or solid hydrocarbons.
PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THE POSITION:
Based at Gasmeth HQ, Kigali, the Accounts Payable Clerk is responsible for the management of day-to-day financial record keeping (including data entry into both Excel and QuickBooks) as well as management of the accounts payable and receivable function; initiating payments; assisting in the computation and payment of various taxes; liaising with banks, customers, and other stakeholders of the company.
PRIMARY DUTIES/ RESPONSIBILITIES
- Assist Financial Accountant in overall accountability for the integrity of the Rwandan P&L accounts and balance Sheets for Gasmeth Energy Limited and Gasmeth Power Ltd, producing meaningful and timely local Management Information, assisting with local tax and treasury processes and operations.
- To assist the Financial Accountant by providing meaningful business support to local business units in the Company and to link closely with the Group finance team on finance, accounting, and control strategy, policy implementation, timetables, consolidations, and templates.
- Assists the Financial Controller and Financial Accountant with financing and treasury activities to optimise and control operations, whilst ensuring efficient and effective relations with the Rwandan banks. Assists in managing the local external banking relationships, supervises all customer and third-party receipts and payments, together with the associated control processes in the Gasmeth Energy Group, consistent with group policy, defined by Group Finance.
- Support invoicing and revenue collection as required.
SPECIFIC DIRECT RESPONSIBILITIES
- Save/retain/e-file copies of Invoice/EBM/PO
- Prepare pay-run summary
- Initiate bank transfers in accordance with delegated authority
- Initiate Invoice payments
- Initiate tax payments, including WHT and VAT
- Initiate bank loan principal and interest payments
- Record payments in Excel
- Prepare bank reconciliations
- Raise purchase codes
- Review and record employee expenses in QB and Excel
- Prepare aged payables report
- Communication with banks and customers
- Run Petty Cash Spreadsheet
- Make Petty cash/MOMO payments
- File Petty Cash receipts
- Record invoices in QB
- Record receipts against invoices in QB
- Record receipts against invoices in Excel
- Prepare aged receivables report
- Maintain a comprehensive fixed asset register.
- Respond to vendor and internal stakeholder queries promptly.
- Other, as required
QUALITIES REQUIRED
- Strong finance, accounting, and control skills, with sound working knowledge of tax and treasury functions
- Relationship skills to work well with the business stakeholders and colleagues within the company.
- Recognizes the importance of a finance team “being connected, yet independent.
- High personal/professional ethics and integrity.
- Ability to work well under pressure to tight deadlines and to deliver high-quality output in line with requirements, often defined by others.
- Excellent attention to detail.
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
- University degree in accounting, with CPA level 2 desirable but not essential
- Prior experience in Accounts Payable
Submission of applications – to include combined in one folder 1 page Cover letter, an updated CV (maximum three pages), and names, titles, and contacts of three professional referees - should be submitted on the Apply button to your application. The deadline for submission of applications is 25th March 2026 at 17:00hrs.