JOB TITLE: Financial Analyst / Accountant
JOB LOCATION: Ikeja, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
JOB DETAILS:
- Perform financial forecasting, reporting, and operational metrics tracking
- Analyze financial data and create financial models for decision support
- Report on financial performance and prepare for regular leadership reviews
- Analyze past results, perform variance analysis, identify trends, and make recommendations for improvements
- Ensure accurate financial reporting
- Evaluate financial performance by comparing and analyzing actual results with plans and forecasts
- Guide the cost analysis process by establishing and enforcing policies and procedures
- Provide analysis of trends and forecasts and recommend actions for optimization
- Recommend actions by analyzing and interpreting data and making comparative analyses; study proposed changes in methods and materials
- Identify and drive process improvements, including the creation of standard and ad-hoc reports, tools, and Excel dashboards
- Increase productivity by developing automated reporting/forecasting tools
- Perform market research, data mining, business intelligence, and valuation comps
- Maintain a strong financial analysis foundation creating forecasts and models
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel is mentioned in virtually any financial analyst job description; familiarity with data query/data management tools is extremely helpful (Access, SQL, Business Objects)
- Reconciling the company’s bank statements and bookkeeping ledgers
- Completing analysis of the employee expenditures
- Managing income and expenditure accounts
- Filing and remitting taxes and other financial obligations
- Initiating and managing financial and accounting software used by the company.
Requirements
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- A Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting.
- 4 – 8 years of work experience with at least 3 years experience as a Financial Analyst.
- Certified Financial Analyst (CFA) or Financial Risk Management (FRM) certifications will be an advantage.
- Professional accounting qualification ICAN/ACCA.
- Ability to interpret financial data.
- Strong leadership and Project management skills
- Exceptional communication skills; both written and verbal
- Good Interpersonal skills.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
HOW TO APPLY
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.
Job Features
Job Category | Accounting / Audit / Finance |