Job Description
Job Description
- Reporting to: Finance Manager
- Responsible for: Accounts payable, Accounts receivable, Financial instruments, Fixed Asset schedule, Reconciliation, Financial & regulatory reporting.
Responsibilities
- Active and spontaneous management of the company's liquidity position and assets
- Adequate maintenance of account balances across all the bank and payment gateways
- Preparation of the bank reconciliation statements
- Management of the fixed asset register
- Management of Investee and receivable accounts
- Management and reconciliation of payable accounts
- Preparation of inter-account transfers and cash movements
- Daily call-over of all the GL entries
- Preparation of all the company management accounts in concert with the Head of accounting & Reporting
- Remittance of all the relevant statutory deductions (WHT, CGT, Stamp duty, NSITF etc.)
- Filing of all the statutory returns
- Support the tax review process and audit exercises
- Preparation of all the relevant audit schedules for the annual financial audits
- Relationship management with the bank and other Financial Institutions
- Any other duties that may be assigned
Key Performance Goals/Targets
- Daily call-over of all the postings relating to banking operations
- Daily reconciliation of all the company’s operations bank accounts
- Weekly resolution of any discrepancy between the bank and ledger balances
- Weekly submission of all the reconciled schedule of financial instruments.
- Weekly reconciliation of other accounts relating to the company e.g payables, VAT, WHT, NSITF etc
- Prompt and accurate remittance of statutory deductions
Qualifications
- BSC / HND Accounting (Chartered Accountant is an added advantage)
- 5-6 years post-NYSC experience
Skills:
- Good written and oral communication skills
- Analytical, reasoning and problem-solving skills
- Proactive, enthusiasm, energy and commitment
- High standard of ethics and integrity
- Tenacity, speed and accuracy
- Excellent customer relationship etiquette
- Excellent time management skills
- Result-driven with the ability to make things happen.
Job Dimensions:
- Proper and correct posting of transactions.
- Financial and regulatory reporting
- Account reconciliation
- Revenues assurances
- Payment to Service providers
- Statutory remittances
Key Interfaces:
- Fund Accounting Team
- Structured Finance Team
- Investment & Research Team
- HR and Administration Team
- Tax Consultants and Auditor
- Regulatory Authorities – FIRS, LIRS, SEC, PENCOM, NSE, FRCN
- Bank and other financial institutions.