Overview
Assistant Accountant Jobs in Dar es-Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania at Britam
Title: Assistant Accountant
Company: Britam
Location: Dar es-Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Job Purpose
The role holder will be responsible for reconciliation of clients’ accounts and ensure queries from intermediaries are promptly responded.
Key Responsibilities
- Cash flow management – Daily monitoring of customer accounts and ensure adherence to cash before cover policy, handle the collection of premiums and find the resolution of account queries.
- Customer retention and loyalty – Timely payment of commission
- Verification of premium payment before processing claim- No claim file not confirmed within 24 hours.
- Allocating daily receipts to all customer accounts.
- Providing accounts information to internal departments.
- Intermediaries reconciliation- No unreconciled balances more than 30 days Send monthly reconcile statement to intermediaries.
- Liaise with underwriters daily on funds received with no debit for timely postings.
- Support all strategic initiatives that are in place which focus on premium collection and credit control issues for head office as well as for all the branches
- Ensure all customers and direct clients /Agency queries are responded immediately. Ensure all commission reports are reconciled and paid by 1st week of every month. Ensure all outstanding statement are sent by 10th of every month.
- Regional cooperation, expansion & other assignments: Ensure all regional queries on credit control issues are responded immediately and all reports required from receivables are prepared on time
- Deliver on performance requirements as defined in the departments’ strategy map, balanced scorecard and Personal Scorecard.
- Performing other duties as assigned by the supervisor.
Key Performance Measures
- Debtors ratio
- TAT for commission payment
- TAT for allocation of receipts
- TAT for reconciliation of intermediary balances
- Working Relationships.
Internal Relationships
- Responsible to Management Accountant
- Required to liaise and work closely with claims, underwriting & sales departments
External Relationships
- Brokers, Agents, Banks and direct customers
- TIRA
Knowledge, Experience And Qualifications Required
- 1. Bachelor's degree (Accounting and Business-related options preferred)
- 2. 2 – 3 years in a similar role
- 3. Knowledge of insurance regulatory requirements
- 4. Knowledge of Britam products
Primary Location
Tanzania, United Republic of-Dar es Salaam-Dar es Salaam
Shift
Day Job
Contract Type
Full-time
Job Posting
21-06-2026
Unposting Date
Ongoing