The Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) was established under the Tanzania Revenue Authority Act No. 1 1 of 1995. The Authority is a semi-autonomous agency of the government responsible for the administration of the central government taxes as well as several non-tax revenues. TRA is currently implementing the Sixth Corporate Plan (CP6: 2022/23—2026/27) with the vision of “A Trusted Revenue Administration for Socio-economic Development” and the mission of “We Make It Easy to Pay Tax and Enhance Compliance for Sustainable Development’.
TRA would like to recruit qualified, dynamic, and ethical personnel to fill positions in the Assistant Accounts Officer.
Tanzanians who meet the requirements are consequently encouraged to apply for the 10 Assistant Accounts Officer Vacancies at TRA positions:
Responsibilities
- To receive and register cash/cheques/bank drafts/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 check payment register where the signatories shall sign and a check dispatch register for payees to sign.
- To generate payments and print checks in the expenditure accounting system.
- To dispatch cheques to staff and suppliers and the cheque lists to banks.
- To stamp PAID on on all paid vouchers and their supporting documents and file them in ascending order of disbursement numbers.
- To make a a follow-up to ensure the collection of receipts for checks dispatched to suppliers.
- To report any discovered loss/shortage of cash/cheque/receipts.
- To track funds transfers from commercial banks to the the 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, or 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.
