Accountant at Venture Garden Nigeria (VGN)

Job Description

Position Description: Are you someone who is regarded as a whiz, a super hero with figures and calculations? A Financial and Accounting guru… Number crunching just comes to you so naturally and you can so easily make sense of it!? Do you thrive on ensuring your clients (staff, vendors etc.) are satisfied while balancing it with company’s objectives…We want you! And if you believe you have what it takes to build a multi-billion dollar company and ready to work at it…yup!!! We want you too!

Position Purpose, Record, Classify, and Summarize in a significant manner and in terms of money, transactions and events which are, in part at least, of financial character, and interpreting the results thereof; Administer payroll and employee finance while significantly contributing to Budgeting and budgetary control

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage reconciliation of payroll balance sheet accounts.
• Manage employee expense postings such as the corporate bonus, out of station allowance, advance payments etc.
• Participate actively in company forecast process and responsible for forecasting compensation accruals.
• Communicate and collaborate proactively with project finance and project management in an effort to anticipate project financial needs.
• Prepare company Budget and ensures amendments to company budget is validated before effected
• Actively participate in company’s short term and long term financial planning
• Advise on financial positioning of company and make recommendations on effective ways to keep processes lean/reduce cost
• Provide guidance and assistance on maintaining compliance, audits and research
• Maintain current knowledge of compensation accounting
• Accountable for collation, compilation, preparation and analysis of annual Master
• Responsible for forecasting trends in order to achieve company corporate objectives
• Prepare monthly comparative report, analyzing and reviewing variance, cash flow and KPI reports
• Maintain internal control compliance on all payroll accounting related activities.
• Point person in internal and external payroll audits
• Identify and drive process improvements consistent with industry best practices
• Responsible for monitoring and resolving bank issues including fee anomalies and cheque differences

Required Experience

• 4-5 years’ accounting experience – payroll, vendor management and employee finance in a reputable organization
• Intermediate to advanced proficiency in Quick book, ERP, Sage, SAP and Peachtree accounting software
• Budget and Budgetary control
• Proficient use of Microsoft excel
• Financial Accounting, Cash flow management, financial Modelling

Personality requirements/Traits:

• Strong Stakeholder Management/Communication Skills
• Gets things done! Execution oriented
• Proactive
• Pays a lot attention to Detail
• Honest and straight forward
• Well organized, good communication, documentation and reporting skills
• Ability to succeed in fast paced environments at a high-growth company; comfortable with very tight timelines; possessing a sense of urgency.
• Ability to find creative solutions to problems combined with a willingness to do what one must to ensure timelines & goals are met.

Added Advantage

• Education/Certifications
  • A Bachelor or Master degree in Accounting, Business Administration or Banking and Finance from any reputable institution
  • ACCA/ICAN qualifications

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Job Description

Position Description: Are you someone who is regarded as a whiz, a super hero with figures and calculations? A Financial and Accounting guru… Number crunching just comes to you so naturally and you can so easily make sense of it!? Do you thrive on ensuring your clients (staff, vendors etc.) are satisfied while balancing it with company’s objectives…We want you! And if you believe you have what it takes to build a multi-billion dollar company and ready to work at it…yup!!! We want you too!

Position Purpose, Record, Classify, and Summarize in a significant manner and in terms of money, transactions and events which are, in part at least, of financial character, and interpreting the results thereof; Administer payroll and employee finance while significantly contributing to Budgeting and budgetary control

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage reconciliation of payroll balance sheet accounts.
• Manage employee expense postings such as the corporate bonus, out of station allowance, advance payments etc.
• Participate actively in company forecast process and responsible for forecasting compensation accruals.
• Communicate and collaborate proactively with project finance and project management in an effort to anticipate project financial needs.
• Prepare company Budget and ensures amendments to company budget is validated before effected
• Actively participate in company’s short term and long term financial planning
• Advise on financial positioning of company and make recommendations on effective ways to keep processes lean/reduce cost
• Provide guidance and assistance on maintaining compliance, audits and research
• Maintain current knowledge of compensation accounting
• Accountable for collation, compilation, preparation and analysis of annual Master
• Responsible for forecasting trends in order to achieve company corporate objectives
• Prepare monthly comparative report, analyzing and reviewing variance, cash flow and KPI reports
• Maintain internal control compliance on all payroll accounting related activities.
• Point person in internal and external payroll audits
• Identify and drive process improvements consistent with industry best practices
• Responsible for monitoring and resolving bank issues including fee anomalies and cheque differences

Required Experience

• 4-5 years’ accounting experience – payroll, vendor management and employee finance in a reputable organization
• Intermediate to advanced proficiency in Quick book, ERP, Sage, SAP and Peachtree accounting software
• Budget and Budgetary control
• Proficient use of Microsoft excel
• Financial Accounting, Cash flow management, financial Modelling

Personality requirements/Traits:

• Strong Stakeholder Management/Communication Skills
• Gets things done! Execution oriented
• Proactive
• Pays a lot attention to Detail
• Honest and straight forward
• Well organized, good communication, documentation and reporting skills
• Ability to succeed in fast paced environments at a high-growth company; comfortable with very tight timelines; possessing a sense of urgency.
• Ability to find creative solutions to problems combined with a willingness to do what one must to ensure timelines & goals are met.

Added Advantage

• Education/Certifications
  • A Bachelor or Master degree in Accounting, Business Administration or Banking and Finance from any reputable institution
  • ACCA/ICAN qualifications