JOB TITLE: Assistant Accounts Officer
JOB LOCATION: Lagos, Nigeria
JOB DETAILS:
Responsibilities
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- The successful candidate shall report directly to the Assistant Director Finance & Administration and responsible for maintaining account records and reconciling them on a regular basis.
Duties / Job Details
The duties of the Assistant Accounts Officer shall comprise amongst others:
- Carrying out daily cash allocation of receipts and payments
- Reconciliation of cedant/broker accounts for the regional office
- Raising and posting of Journals arising from the reconciliation process
- Cash matching of receipts and payments with related reinsurance debtor transactions for assigned cedants
- Providing technical accounting support to the underwriting team in the maintenance, processing and reconciliation of cedant/broker accounts
- Engaging in aggressive collection drive
- Reconciliation of retrocessionaires accounts
- Any other duties as may be assigned by the ADFA
Qualifications and Experience
Minimum Qualifications and Experience:
- Higher National Diploma (HND) or First University Degree or equivalent in a relevant field plus a minimum of 3 years relevant work experience
- Relevant work experience in a Technical Accounts department of a Reinsurance Company or an Insurance Company is a must;
- Relevant Professional Accounting Qualifications is required
Competencies and Additional Requirements
The main competencies required for this position are as follows:
- Excellent knowledge of Insurance and Reinsurance;
- Knowledge of Accounting
- Ability to work with limited supervision
- Working knowledge of Office productivity tools like Excel, Word, Powerpoint etc
- Strong interpersonal skills, detailed oriented and customer service focused
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Organizational skills and ability to multitask;
- Ability to adapt to a fast paced, high production environment.
- Problem solving skills with capacity for taking initiatives
- Capacity for analysis and reasoning
- Flexibility, Adaptability, and creativity
- Applicants must also be Nationals of member States of Africa Re
Salary & Benefits
The successful candidate shall have the following benefits:
- Competitive Basic Salary on the Corporation’s Grade Level SS2
- Variable pay (Annual Performance Bonus)
- Joint contribution to the Provident Fund (7% of the basic salary paid by staff and 14% by the employer)
- Children education subsidy for each child up to 26 years (maximum 4 children)
- Medical cover for staff and recognized dependents;
- Transport Allowance
- Inflation Adjustment allowance that may increase or decrease depending on the economic situation and inflation.
- Housing Allowance.
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Deadline: May 17, 2021
Job Features
Job Category | Accounting / Audit / Finance, Assistant |