Job Description
Required Skills:
Proficiency in account management ERP (Sage, QuickBooks,)
- Working knowledge of Nigerian tax laws
- Experience working with and producing management and statutory accounts
- Excellent computer skills in the Microsoft Office environment with advanced Excel skills
- Experience in supervising, evaluating, training and motivating employees
- Excellent communication skills
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Experience working at multinational organizations will be advantageous
- Awareness and ability to demonstrate the importance of ethics & appropriate codes of conduct in the workplace
- Ability to achieve daily targets while attending to impromptu activities that may occur
- Good people skills
- Ability to organize, multi-task and prioritize tasks
- Good influencing and negotiation skills
- Ability to make recommendations to effectively resolve problems or issues
Job Roles / Responsibilities:
- Overseeing: Compliance & Taxes, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, financial statements and cost reports, and analysis receipts and disbursements, general journals, fixed assets and month end processes
- Forecast and track key account metrics (e.g. monthly/quarterly reports and annual forecasts)
- Developing, implementing and assessing short and long-term programs, goals and objectives for accounting department
- Ensuring that accounting practices, records, controls and decisions are made according to accounting standards and Company policy
- Organizing and manage periodic stock takes and perform inventory reconciliations
- Preparation of statutory accounts
- Overseeing preparation and completion of the annual tax returns
- Participate in Annual audit- preparation of schedules for external auditors.
- Prepares annual budgets and ensures optimal utilization of the budget.
- Ensure all jobs / projects are invoiced upon completion
- Perform bank reconciliations
- Manages petty cash / imprest system
- Make and acknowledge receipts of bank inflows and outflows.
- Payroll Management
- Make regulatory payments of staff payroll related items- PAYE, Pension, NSITF as may be applicable
- Record and follow up with Accounts Receivables and Payables.
- Assist with challenging client requests or issue escalations as needed
- Performing other duties as required
Preferred
Education
- BSC / HND Finance Mgt. disciplines
- BSC / HND ACCOUNTS
Discipline
- Financial Management, Accounts, Business Administration, Statistics and similar disciplines
- Financial Management, Accounts
General work experience
- 6 years of broad-based accounting/reporting experience, including minimum 2 years supervisory or management experience.
- 10 years of broad-based accounting/reporting experience, including minimum 4 years supervisory or management experience.
Specific work experience
- minimum 2 years supervisory or financial management experience
- minimum 4 years supervisory or financial management experience
- Professional certifications / licenses
- ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified or equivalent accounting qualification i.e. degree in Finance or Accounting