Finance Assistant needed at Committed To Good
Job title : Finance Assistant jobs in Abuja
Job Location : Abuja
Deadline : April 29, 2023
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Role objectives:
Client purchase orders – Call Off Orders (COO):
- Under all global long term agreements with its clients CTG must raise a financial quotation & budget limitations for any new contracts (hereinafter called a ñCOOî & sometimes referred to as a quote’).
- Generation of COOs.
- Management of COOs & COO burner (ensuring budgets are not exceeded).
- Direct reporting to Finance Project & Payroll Manager).
Cashbook management & Purchase Orders (PO’s):
- Manage the cashbook.
- Post cashbook to Sage.
- Manage local Account Managers (AM’s) & other staff’s raising of PO’s, ensuring POs are raised where required prior to purchase.
- Ensure POs are recorded on sage & raised for invoicing where applicable.
- Ensure the local team are trained on CTG PO system.
- Reconcile PO’s against COO & COO burner.
- Direct reporting to Finance Project & Payroll Manager.
Invoicing:
- Generate timely & accurate invoices for clients, either system generated or manually as required.
- Ensure all invoices are recorded correctly in Sage.
- Reconciliation of invoices against payroll & COOs.
- Manage receipt of local supplier invoices, checking against POs, upload to Sage & issue client reimbursable invoice as required.
- Direct reporting to Credit Controller.
Accounts receivable:
- Ensure timely payment of invoices by client.
- Support Credit Controller with chasing clients for unpaid invoices.
- Resolve any queries / issues with invoices to ensure swift payment.
- Direct reporting to Credit Controller.
Payroll:
- Oversee timesheets timely receipts with local AM’s.
- Ensure procedures & timelines are met.
- Prepare payroll system generated or manually as required as per policy.
- Reconcile payroll with Sage, COOs, contracts of employment & local tax laws.
- Direct reporting to Finance Project & Payroll Manager.
Tax:
- Calculation of Personal Income Tax (PIT) & Social Security (SS) & any other applicable local salary withholding taxes.
- Responsible for timely payment of PIT, SS & other withholding taxes to local tax departments / authorities.
- Production & issuance of payslips.
- Complete annual tax returns, payment of corporate & other business taxes & other local filings.
- Manage any local audits for taxation & other jurisdictional requirements.
- Responsible for timely payment of all taxes to governing bodies.
- Posting of tax payments to Sage.
- Work with our legal team to ensure CTG adheres to local tax laws, responsible for keeping CTG in good standing & up to date with local tax laws.
- Represent CTG at local governing bodies (including ministry & tax departments).
- Direct reporting to Financial Controller.
Banking:
- Manage local bank account(s) where applicable.
Management accounting:
- Manage local budgets & actuals variance analysis for Regional Director.
- Prepare brief monthly report to summarise performance & highlight any areas of concern.
- Prepare savings schemes & analytical support on OPEX expenditure to enable local decision making.
- Provide visibility on financial business positioning to ensure effective regional management.
- Prepare local management accounts & work with local auditors as required.
Project reporting:
- Functional financial reporting into the Regional Accountant.
- Day to day line management to Regional Manager based in Nigeria.
Key competencies:
- Must be fully qualified ACCA, CPA or equivalent.
- Minimum 5 years of experience.
- Desirable to have experience in governmental departments.
- Extensive experience in working with Sage, SAP, Oracle or similar accounting system.
- Desirable to have experience in generating management accounts & profit / loss financial statements.
- Good knowledge of local tax laws.
- Fluent in English & French.
- Geographical experience in any of the countries listed is an advantage Nigeria, Mali, Niger, Ghana, Bukina Faso.
- Self starter.
- Ethical, trustworthy & confidential.
- Time management.
- Team player & good relationship builder.
- Excellent customer service skills.
- Resilient & positive.
Team management:
- This role has no team management responsibility.
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