Junior Accountant at Accrete Petroleum Limited

Role Overview

Accrete Petroleum is seeking an ethical and responsible candidate to join the Finance Department in our Lagos office. The job descriptions include but not limited to;

• Provide support to the Finance Manager with daily financial management and office administration.
• Assist the Finance Manager to maintain complete accounting records including completing vouchers, obtaining proper authorizations, and preparing reconciliations
• Responsible for day to day maintenance of petty cash and petty cash replenishment request.
• Support in processing financial transactions and maintaining an effective filing system for financial transactions.
• Support in monitoring bank transactions and maintaining audit trail for all transactions.
• Post and process journal entries to ensure all business transactions are recorded
• Assist the Finance Manager in ensuring proper tracking of project advances to staff.
• Assist the Finance Manager in preparing budgets for funding proposals and annual company budget.
• Support preparation of weekly and monthly financial reports/reconciliations.
• Provide support during the conduct of the annual statutory audit.
• Maintains accounting controls by following policies and procedures; complying with federal, state, and local financial legal requirements.
• Updates job knowledge by participating in professional training and development.
• Perform other accounting/administrative related duties as assigned.

Qualification and Technical Skills

• Degree in Finance, Accounting or Business Administration with a minimum of Second Class Upper Division
• Not more than 28 years old by 31st December 2019
• 2- 3years experience in a similar role
• Proficiency in the use of MS Office applications, particularly MS Excel
• Good understanding of accounting and financial reporting principles and practices
• Proficient communication and presentational skills to interact and present information to management and staff
• Must be detail focused and goal oriented.
• Self-motivated individual with effective organisational skills to work pro-actively under own initiative to ensure that deadlines are met and queries promptly resolved.
• Experience working with SAP/ SAGE or a similar financial accounting/management system preferred