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Job title : Chief Financial Officer – News Media Organisation
Job Location : Lagos
Deadline : October 12, 2024
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Job Description
- Overseeing all accounting and account balancing procedures for each company production project.
- Communication between National and Bureau locations production personnel related to accounting operations.
- Overseeing the proper procedural handling of production-related financial matters, such as receiving statements and balancing accounts related to production progress payments.
- Coordinate with National and Bureau locations personnel in the accounting area related to production, distribution, marketing, technical, financial, and legal areas.
- Review and advise as needed concerning aspects of producing the Projects, such as casting, production schedules, physical production, script modifications, cost control, budgeting, talent issues, visual effects, and others.
- Monitor and manage all Projects that the Company invests in, and to do their best in making all projects successful.
- Analyze industry trends and market developments, advising on potential consequences for company and presenting recommendations to senior management
- Effectively bring together a range of source information and data to highlight business issues and potential options to help resolve problems and mitigate risk
- Provide financial analysis to support performance information and plans
- Analyze and review financial and business information effectively for business insights
- Analyze financial and non-financial data, performance, risks and issues to identify underlying business trends or themes that need to be addressed and put forward possible solutions/ recommendations
- Contribute to the preparation of business cases/ investment proposals on behalf of the division
- Manage the bank reconciliation processes and ensure all banks are completely analysed and reconciled daily.
- Post transactions daily using accrual basis of accounting.
- Post all end of the month adjustments.
- Draw up trial balance
- Maintain an up to date Fixed Assets Register and do quarterly fixed assets count.
- Manage all payables and ensure payments are processed as at when due.
- Develop, implement, modify, and document recordkeeping and accounting systems, making use of current technology or designated ERP
- Compute taxes owed and prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting or other tax requirements (make VAT and PAYE returns to relevant tax authorities)
- Participate in the budget development, evaluation, and monitoring.
- Perform data entries in ERP for other transactions as delegated/ when required
- Perform all other functions as may be assigned by the CEO
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance.
- Minimum of 12 years relevant work experience with at least 7 years demonstrated experience in a leadership/management position.
- Good understanding of finance principles with the ability to build and maintain complex financial models; Professional accounting qualification e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent an advantage
- Advanced knowledge of, and experience with, accounting principles and concepts, and financial analysis and reporting, including IFRS, GAAP
- Experience of multi-site and multi-currency reporting.
- Diverse work experiences with cross functional teams.
- Experience working with ERP, SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, SAGE etc with Strong technical computing skills.
- Experience of the review and analysis of financial data from a range of source information to identify trends or themes and to suggest solutions/recommendations.
- Ability to take complex data/principles and to communicate these in an understandable way to the wider team.
- Ability to prioritise and manage time effectively. Managing deadlines and conflicting demands. Using initiative and external thinking to resolve day-to-day problems.
- Experience of presenting ideas in a variety of formats for different audiences including written papers/reports and presentations.
- Proficient in all MS Office applications, Excel, Word, PowerPoint.
- Experience in Financial Reporting.
- Must be able to analyse financial data and prepare/review various types of financial information: reports, schedules, journal entries, etc.
- Able to communicate in English fluently.
- Must have a high level of job integrity.
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