Job Summary

• The Head of Accounts will be responsible for managing the company’s finances and accounts and handle all regulatory and statutory compliance issues.
• Cost control on the overall expenses of the organization
• Customer Outstanding control, monitoring and recovering.
• Cash management and financial strategies: inflow, outflow, dollars, Euros, Naira

Job Description

• Permanent accounting controls by policies and procedures preparation and recommendations
• Daily and weekly reconciliation and monitoring with banks statement
• Create monthly income statements and expenses reports recommending financial actions.
• Preparation of asset, liability, and capital account entries by compiling and analyzing account entries
• Ensuring that all physical documentations in reference to purchases, sales, rental contracts are properly collected, scrutinized, and filed.
• Summarization of current financial status by preparing balance sheets, profit and loss statements, and other reports for bi-annual external auditing
• Preparation of special financial reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing account information trends every 5th of the month
• Control, assess, monitor all costs and expenses occurring in the organization.
• Provide weekly and monthly report to management on all operational expenses and outstanding.
• Developing and monitoring dashboard and KPI
• Provide weekly cash-flow situation @ 1 week, 15 days, 1 months, annually.
• Manage all cash inflow, remuneration strategies and implementation.
• Manage all cash outflow, $/Euro purchase: BDC, CBN, I&E window, Direct
• Look for all optimization strategies on all finance, cash movements, currencies.
• Handling of budgets and budgeting processes
• Handle all regulatory & statutory compliance issues.
• Analyze and review budgets and expenditures.
• Analyze revenue and expenditure trends and recommend appropriate budget levels and ensure expenditure control.
• Firm understanding of various tax issues.
• Develop policies and procedures to support operations.
• Monitor and review accounting and related system reports for accuracy and completeness and ensure timely submission of reports.
• Interact with internal and external auditors in completing audits.
• Responsible for overall Finance and Accounting activities of the company and preparation of financial reports
• And any other duties as may be assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree / HND in Finance and Accounting or any relevant knowledge in financing
• Applicants must have a professional qualification (ACA/ACCA).
• A minimum of 5 (five) years post qualification experience.
• Experience in sourcing of Foreign Exchange (FX) at official rate
• High level of proficiency in the use of MS Office Suites, Accounting software packages, ability to prepare financial model and can demonstrate strong treasury management skills.
• High integrity
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to deliver timely and quality financial reports.
• Give prompt feedback from clients and regulatory authorities.
• Strong leadership qualities
• Ability to multitask and work across different businesses covering different sectors.
• Cash management certificate or any relevant knowledge in cash management
• Master office automation tools. Especially EXCEL – Mandatory
• ERP experience, ODOO even better
• Strong knowledge in currencies management
• Knowledge of Nigerian Banking system
• Attention to detail and strong accuracy
• Precise, calm and high concentration
• Deadline-oriented and work load management
• Data Entry Management
• Proactive
• Rigorous and organized
• Efficient with Nigerian administration