Senior Accountant at Nigeria Internet Registeration Association

Responsibilities
The senior accountant will be primarily responsible for:

• Designing and developing relevant accounting policies procedures and controls for NIRA
• Preparing and recording asset, liability revenue and expenses entries by compiling and analyzing accounting information
• Maintaining and balancing subsidiary accounts by verifying, allocating, posting, reconciling transactions; resolving discrepancies
• Summarizing financial status by collating information; preparing balts4ce sheet, revenue account and other affiliated statements
• Processing payroll as at when due under the supervision of the Chief Operating Officer and generating pays slips for staff with cor&cr information showing statutory deductions
• Enforcing and monitoring compliance with accounting policies aria procedures
• Maintaining asset register and account payable and receivable rerecords for audit purposes
• Interfacing with external auditors: assisting with financial and tax audit
• Avoiding legal challenges by complying with legal requirements; including statutory obligations, withholding, corporate tax, VAT and PAYE
• Securing financial information by scheduling database backups
• Training and mentoring junior Accounting Staff
• Making recommendations to the Chief Operating Officer based on analysis and status of reserves, assets and expenditures
• Reviewing journal entries of Junior accountants to ensure accuracy
• Performing various analysis and preparing accounts reconciliation
• Carrying out any other work as assigned by the Chief Operating Officer

Qualifications and Attribute

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or Business related discipline with a minimum of second class upper division
• ACA or .ACCA is mandatory
• Three years post- ICAN qualification is mandatory
• Must have at least 10 years post-NYSC experience in financial management and administration
• Advanced experience with MS Word, MS Excel and PowerPoint.
• Strong analytical and accounting skills
• Budget monitoring and execution skills
• Ability to prepare accurate and timely financial records
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with different levels of staff