Job Title: Auditor
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Summary
- Our client is in urgent 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 accrualschedules 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 andall 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
- es & cash withdrawals from banks etc. are guided by the company’s procedures/policies.
- 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 5 years 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
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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Job Features
Job Category | Accounting / Audit / Finance |