Mid-level Accountant at Pivotage Consulting

Job Id: CORP/1130/CCAT
Location: Lagos State, Nigeria.
Type: Full Time
Career: Mid/Level Expert
Reports to: Managing Director.

Job Responsibilities

• Managing the team to ensure compliance with existing accounting policies and standard accounting practices in the company's policies.
• Pursuing and recovering excess bank charges accrued to the business.
• Ensuring production and review of monthly management accounts and associated reconciliations within the specified monthly deadlines.
• Ensuring timely and accurate recording of the company’s financial transactions.
• Liaising with the company bankers on a regular basis.
• Ensuring accurate maintenance of the company’s general ledgers
• Handling all tax fillings of the company.
• Liaising with external auditors and submitting request documents during audit.
• Maintaining fixed assets register and reconcile to general ledger control account
• Facilitating debt collection for the company main debtors
• Coordinating bank reconciliation
• Maintaining creditors records for the company
• Processing payroll for the employees.
• Processing invoices in accounting system.
• Processing payment vouchers.
• Obtaining payment Voucher approval.
• Processing cheques or payment instructions.
• Issuing cheques to suppliers.
• Reconciling supplier statements.
• Preparing payment schedules.
• Processing invoices to customers’ suppliers and other clients.
• Matching invoices to approved PO or requests as applicable.
• Preparing and submit statutory returns.

Other Duties

• Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job.
• Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Job Qualifications

• Must have a Bachelor's degree in any Accounting discipline or related field.
• A Master's degree is an added advantage.
• Must have the experience to recovery excess bank charges as an added advantage.
• Must have 3-5 years’ cognate working experience.
• Must be ICAN certified.
• Must have good knowledge of Peachtree, SAGE and QuickBooks.
• Must have good communication skill both oral and written.

Job Competencies:

• Must have a good business acumen.
• Must have a good Communication and Presentation Skill.
• Must be ethical and a best practice professional.
• Must be a creative thinker.
• Must have an excellent organizational and time management skill
• Must have an industry-wide exposure
• Must have a working knowledge of Excel & PowerPoint MS Office.