Accountant (Lagos) at eRecruiter Nigeria

Our client is a Wholesale and Retail Drinks provision company with the drive to provide the best high-quality products for their citizens. They currently have an opening for an Accountant - Lagos

Responsibilities

• Prepare, examine, and analyze accounting records, financial statements, and other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.
• Compute taxes owed and prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment reporting and other tax requirements.
• Analyze business operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations, to project revenues and expenses or to provide advice.
• Report to management regarding the finances of establishment.
• Establish tables of accounts, and assign entries to proper accounts.
• Prepare pricelists at different margins and send them to different organizations.
• Develop, maintain and analyze budgets, preparing periodic reports that compare budgeted costs to actual costs.
• Advise the company on financial issues, discount periods and peak periods. 
• Survey operations to ascertain accounting needs and to recommend, develop and maintain solutions to business and financial problems.
• Prepare forms and manuals for accounting and bookkeeping personnel and direct their work activities 
•  Advise management about issues such as resource utilization, tax strategies, and the assumptions underlying budget forecasts.
• Balance the company’s account weekly
• Maintain and examine the records of government agencies.

Job Requirement

• Strong experience as an Accountant
• Bachelor's Degree in an appropriate field of study or equivalent work experience
• Thorough knowledge of basic accounting procedures and principles
• Experience with creating financial statements
• Experience with general ledger functions and the month-end/year-end close process
• Excellent accounting software user and administration skills
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Aptitude for numbers and quantitative skills
• Intermediate understanding of accounting and reporting standards, gaining experience in researching as it relates to accounting issues