• Application Deadline:
• Position: Auditor


• Job Type Full Time


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience 1 year


• Location Lagos


• Job Field Finance / Accounting / Audit 
  

Summary

• We are urgently in need of an Auditor who will be responsible for keeping the employer accountable regarding internal company procedures and industry rules.


• The Auditor’s duties include studying accounting records, preparing compliance reports and supervising company workflows.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate financial documents for accuracy and compliance with federal regulations


• Identify the financial risk of the organization and offer recommendations to reduce risk.


• Identify accounting and financial record-keeping processes that can be improved


• Determine ways to cut costs and improve profitability


• Assess the efficiency and productivity of internal staff and make recommendations for improvement


• Present findings to upper management in the form of reports and presentations


• To ensure good management of scarce resources


• To ensure that all accounts books are prepared in accordance with accounting principles and standards


• To ensure sound and efficient control systems.


• Liaising with the Audit Committee on internal/systems audits.


• Reports likely risks inherent in such weaknesses to the systems


• Reports lose of all kinds to the management


• Periodic checking of aged debtors’ analyses report with debtors control accounts to ensure they reconciled


• Periodic checking of aged creditors analyses report with creditors control accounts to ensure they reconciled


• Cross-checking to ensure that sales (Customers) invoices in General Ledgers reconciled with products invoices postings in sales department always


• Cross-checking and ensuring that all purchases are duly posted into the appropriate accounts by Accounts dept.


• Cross-checking and ensuring that all assets are properly entered into the assets register by carrying out physical identifications of all assets with computer printouts periodically; monthly reconciliation of assets.


• Periodic checking of the prepayment and accrual schedules in the General Ledgers


• Quarterly and Year-end stock takings with the store personnel


• Checks periodically all the postings in the General Ledges to ensure accuracy in postings and proper classifications in view of accounting principles


• Verification of credit sales and all purchases with material value in the General Ledgers regularly


• Assists in handling some accounting jobs when the need arises.


• Works hand-in-hand with the external auditors during the annual audit of financial year-end.


• Works with the Audit Committee on systems audit issues when the need arises


• Carries out internal audits to identify any weaknesses or loopholes in the systems and make reports as well as recommend corrective measures to the management


• Monitoring all credit sales to ensure compliance with company’s policies on credit facilities


• Monitoring staff indebtedness to the company to ascertain compliance in repayments.


• Monitoring cash advances to staff and makes calls for their retirements


• Any other duties assigned.

Requirements

• Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or any related Social Science Courses.


• Minimum of 1 year of relevant experience on the job


• Necessary certificates and professional qualifications and master Degrees shall be added advantage


• Strong communication skills to work with Accountants and other co-workers


• Excellent attention to detail to review large amounts of data and numbers


• Exceptional mathematical skills to verify entries


• Good critical-thinking skills to gather all of the available data and make informed decisions


• Excellent research skills to find all related information needed


• Proficiency in accounting software and spreadsheets