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Financial Accountant Job in an Aquacultural Feed Production Company
Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners - Our client, a global
company producing feed for aquaculture with a factory based in Ibadan,
Oyo State, is recruiting to fill the position of:
Job Title: Junior Financial Accountant
Location: Oyo
Main Tasks and Responsibilities
General:
- Review and verify invoices and check requests
- Sort, code and match invoices
- Set invoices up for payment
- Enter and upload invoices into system
- Monitor accounts to ensure payments are up to date
- Research and resolve invoice discrepancies and issues
- Maintain vendor files
- Correspond with vendors and respond to inquiries
- Produce monthly reports
- Assist with month end closing
- Provide supporting documentation for audits
- Track expenses and process expense reports
- Prepare and process electronic transfers and payments
- Prepare and perform cheque runs
- Post transactions to journals, ledgers and other records
- Reconcile accounts payable transactions
- Prepare analysis of accounts
- Maintain petty cash
Year-end statutory audits and month-end reporting
- Prepare draft financial statements for review by the Business Controller
- Preparation of schedules for the interim and year-end statutory audits
- Prepare month end journals and balance sheet reconciliations for
a number of accounts including the VAT, Fixed Assets, Accruals and etc.
Banking & treasury:
- Processing treasury related journals at month-end and reconciling the balance sheet accounts
- Set up online banking payments and manual payments, including international payments.
- Prepare regular cash flow forecasting
Returns/Corporation Tax:
- Prepare and file monthly VAT returns
- Prepare and file monthly NSIT/ ITF
- Keep abreast of developments in tax regulations and suggest changes to ensure compliance
Withholding Tax:
- Withhold applicable taxes from vendors
- File monthly WHT returns
- Help develop SKNG's withholding tax strategy, ensuring full compliance while giving vendors credit notes on a timely basis.
Education & Qualifications
- Must have a Bachelor's degree and be at least a part qualified Accountant
Experience:
- Must have at least 3 years' experience within a Finance department
- Experience involving banking, account reconciliations, preparing financial statements and preparing VAT/ WHT returns.
- Experience dealing with tax/ FIRS at an operational level.
Skills:
- Experience in financial accounting - particularly statutory reporting and tax are essential for this role.
- A high level of computer literacy is needed and they should be a proficient user of Microsoft Excel, Word and Outlook.
- Report Writing skills are also a requirement for the role and
they should be comfortable analysing large amounts of data and reporting
the results.
- Experience using ERP systems is must
- An understanding of statutory (FIRS) accounting rules and
Nigerian tax legislation, including rules around VAT/ WHT and
corporations tax.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their application letter and CV's to:
[email protected] and
[email protected] using the job title as subject of the mail
