• Application Deadline:
• Position: Accounts and Finance Analyst


• Job Type Full Time


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience 5 years


• Location Lagos


• Job Field Finance / Accounting / Audit 
  

Job Responsibilities

• Collaborate with and provide support to the Finance Business Partner team to ensure profitability targets are achieved and maintained.


• Support initiatives by providing data and analysis that helps the business in achieving its strategic objectives.


• Participate in the month-end close process, preparing journal entries, performing account analysis and preparing balance sheet account reconciliations.


• Ensure accounting practices and documentation procedures are performed in accordance with IFRS.


• Assist with providing documentation for both internal and external auditor requests.


• Work with other accounting organization functions, including payroll and AP to ensure appropriate accounting treatment.


• Participate in special projects and process improvement initiatives.


• Own and manage detailed financial models including the capacity models that drive headcount forecasts, understand and manage the revenue and cost structure on the P&L, and lead ad hoc financial modeling and analysis


• Ensure that forecasts incorporate trends and current/future business strategies


• Build and maintain consolidated financial models to plan the business and allow for appropriate sensitivities


• Partner with leadership to establish key performance metrics, lead efforts to monitor performance vs. goals, and provide insights for improvement


• Own monthly and quarterly Budget vs. Actual reporting and ensuring a high degree of quality, timeliness, and accuracy in reporting as well as providing key business insights and perspectives


• Monitor P&L lines during monthly financial close, discuss variances to forecast, and conduct research as needed.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, a related field, or equivalent practical experience


• 5 years of accounting practice and/or industry experience


• Experience with International financial reporting standards


• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint)


• High-energy, self-motivated, team player with a desire to excel in demanding and fast paced detailed oriented environment


• Ability to adapt quickly, work independently, take ownership, and work in a flexible team environment.

Professional Skills:

• ACA / ACCA or Equivalent


• Ability to influence various stakeholders without formal authority.


• Professional demeanor.


• Ability and willingness to meet business critical deadlines.


• Ability to work independently and be responsible to follow up on action items.


• Excellent verbal, interpersonal and written communication skills.


• Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making capabilities.


• Team player with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.


• Ability to work with all levels of internal staff as well as outside clients and vendors.

We Offer

• We offer you exciting career opportunities with an international reach to further expand your experience through our diversity-focused and award-winning talent development initiatives.


• Energizing and pioneering, this is also an environment that keeps you motivated. You’ll be joining a values-led, genuinely diverse, and talented team that is passionate about being there for employees, and for each other.


• We strive to deliver the right environment for the right people while fostering a culture of fairness, mutual respect, responsibility, and care for our business and our customers.


• We have a competitive compensation and benefits package for full-time employees. Our talent policies are recognized world-wide as one of the best in the industry and we continue to look for new ways to invest in our people through ongoing personal and professional development initiatives.


• We value the diversity of our talent and will always strive to recruit the best person for the job. We’re proud of that and we see it as a genuine source of strength for building high performing teams.