Assistant Accounts Officer Job at TRA, 2025
The Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) is a government agency responsible for managing and regulating the country’s tax system. Its primary goal is to generate revenue for the government, ensuring that taxes are fairly, efficiently, and transparently assessed and collected. TRA plays a key role in promoting Tanzania’s economic development by ensuring that all taxable entities, including individuals and businesses, comply with tax laws and contribute to national income.
Assistant Accounts Officer Job at TRA
Key Responsibilities will include
- To receive and register cash/cheques/bank draft/ postal and money orders, issue receipts for the same and capture them timely in the expenditure accounting system.
- To maintain petty cash and bank all cash/cheques collected intact.
- To collect bank statements, bank Pay-in slips and other documents from banks.
- To record revenue transactions in cash books; prepare revenue analysis journals and daily cash/cheque receipts sheets (CCRS).
- To maintain a cheque payment register where the signatories shall sign and a cheque dispatch register for payees to sign.
- To generate payments and print cheques in the expenditure accounting system.
- To dispatch cheques to staff and suppliers and the cheque lists to banks.
- To stamp PAID all paid vouchers and their supporting documents, and file them in ascending order of disbursement numbers.
- To make follow-up to ensure the collection of receipts for cheques dispatched to suppliers.
- To report any discovered loss/ shortage of cash/cheque/receipts.
- To track funds transfers from commercial banks to Central Bank (BoT) and prepare the schedule of revenue transfers and funds in transit (with commercial banks).
- To perform any other duties assigned by the Supervisor.
Qualifications and Experience:
Diploma in one of the following fields Accountancy, Finance, Business Administration majoring in Accounting or Finance or equivalent qualifications from recognized Institutions. The ability to use different Accounting packages/software is an added advantage.
Preferred Language Skill: English and Swahili
Job opening date: 06-Feb-2025
Job closing date: 19-Feb-2025
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