Job Title: Accountant
Location: Lekki, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Brief
- Accountant responsibilities include auditing financial documents and procedures, reconciling bank statements, and calculating tax payments and returns, previous experience with bookkeeping and a flair for spotting numerical mistakes are important.
- You will provide us with accurate quantitative information on financial position, liquidity and cash flows of our business while ensuring we’re compliant with all tax regulations.
Responsibilities
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- Publish financial statements in time
- Handle monthly, quarterly and annual closings
- Reconcile accounts payable and receivable
- Ensure timely bank payments
- Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual statements (balance sheets and income statements)
- Forecast costs and revenues
- Manage tax payments
- Organize internal audits
- Prepare budgets (for the entire company and by department)
- Monitor and report on accounting discrepancies
- Compute taxes and prepare tax returns
- Manage balance sheets and profit/loss statements
- Report on the company’s financial health and liquidity
- Audit financial transactions and documents
- Reinforce financial data confidentiality and conduct database backups when necessary
- Comply with financial policies and regulations
Requirements and Skills
- BSc in Accounting, Finance, or relevant degree
- Additional certification (ICAN, ACCA) is essential
- 3 – 5 years relevant work experience.
- Must be female
- Work experience as an Accountant
- Excellent knowledge of accounting/ tax regulations and procedures
- Hands-on experience with accounting software like FreshBooks, Sage, QuickBooks etc
- Advanced MS Excel skills
- Experience with general ledger functions
- Strong attention to detail and good analytical skills
- Excellent math skills with attention to detail
- Time-management abilities
- Confidentiality
HOW TO APPLY
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV & Cover Letter (as the body of the email) to: [email protected] and copy [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.
Note: Candidates must be residing on the Island.
Deadline: April 11, 2023
Job Features
Job Category | Accounting / Audit / Finance |