Accountant at Courierplus Services Limited

CourierPlus is a leading logistics and distribution services company established in 2009. We offer a wide array of express courier and logistic support solutions to our various customers.

With over 400 highly skilled personnel, we have excellent competencies in striving sectors such as Financial Services, Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Government Agencies, and Oil & Gas/Utilities. As a diverse end-to-end logistics solutions provider, we offer a range of expertise aimed at helping customers re-engineer and re-invent their businesses to compete successfully in an ever-changing marketplace, with the final objective of safely and promptly delivering all our customers consignments as expected.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Accountant
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Contract

Typical Responsibilities

• Collection of finances and the resolution of account queries, raising sales invoices and issuing credit notes
• Manage debt recovery, which if a client has paid late or missed payments could involve undertaking legal action
• Dealing with bankrupt businesses to negotiate recovery of funds.
• Builds and maintains close links with all customers, to ensure smooth running of accounts and encourage timely recovery of payments.
• Contributing positively to the business in a professional, courteous and supportive nature at all times.
• Petty cash custodian; directly responsible for petty cash funds and receipts to verify expenditure, keep funds locked and out of sight.
• Attend to the filing of all business documents to ensure fast access when required and keep all details confidential.
• Payment and cheque preparation.
• Data Entry and account monitoring.
• Entering creditor invoices.
• Checking customer’s credit ratings with banks
• Timely and effective collection of all debts and customers payments
• Negotiating re-payment plans
• Maintaining contact with clients to ensure invoices are clear for payment
• Resolving queries both internally and externally around outstanding invoices
• Posting and allocating daily receipts to accounting systems
• Providing accounts information to internal departments
• Liaising with customers, as well as internal personnel including the sales team
• Providing general accounts payable duties as well as various administration duties including data entry, filing and reporting as required.

Education and Experience

• Candidates should possess a Bachelor's Degree with
• Minimum of 1 year work experience.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email

Application Deadline  26th April, 2021.