JOB TITLE: Head of Accounts
JOB LOCATION: Lekki, Lagos
JOB DETAILS:
- As the Head of Accounts, we need you to be detail-oriented to perform and coordinate accounting duties within our organization. The senior accountant’s responsibilities include preparing financial reports, performing account reconciliations , maintaining the general ledger, preparing tax returns, assisting with audit preparations, and performing other accounting duties as assigned.
- To be successful as a Senior accountant, you should have a solid working knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and strong financial analysis skills. We also need you to possess strong Excel skills, be detail-oriented, highly organized, and able to work with little to no supervision and perform under pressure.
Job Description
Your Job description entails the following:
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- Preparing, examining, and analyzing accounting records, financial statements, and other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.
- Computing taxes owed and prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment reporting and other tax requirements.
- Analyzing business operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments and obligations, to project revenues and expenses or to provide advice.
- Reporting to management regarding the finances of establishment.
- Establishing tables of accounts, and assign entries to proper account.
- Preparing pricelists at different margins and send them to different organizations.
- Developing, maintain and analyze budgets, preparing periodic reports that compare budgeted costs to actual costs.
- Advising the company on financial issues, discount periods and peak periods.
- Surveying operations to ascertain accounting needs and to recommend, develop and maintain solutions to business and financial problems.
- Maintaining and examine the records of government agencies.
- Preparing forms and manuals for accounting and bookkeeping personnel and direct their work activities
- Advising management about issues such as resource utilization, tax strategies, and the assumptions underlying budget forecasts.
- Balancing the company’s account weekly
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance or related field.
- 5+ years of progressive accounting experience with a portion of it being in a supervisory role
- Strong understanding of accounting, finance, and management principle
- Thorough knowledge of general tax laws and remittances
- Excellent verbal and written communication abilities across all level of an organization
- Strong leadership skills with a dedication to driving and achieving results
- Knowledge of employee relationship building and performance management techniques
- Attention to detail and ability to analyse large amounts of data
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and the entire Microsoft office Suite with high level of efficiency and accuracy.
Salary
300,000 / Month.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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Job Features
Job Category | Accounting / Audit / Finance |