Account Officer (Intern) at Noble Hall Leadership Academy for Girls

Job Description
The candidate shall report to the HOD Finance and Accounts and handle the following direct reports:

Job Role

• Effectively manage the running of the day to day and business activities of the Academy.
• Develop and manage the achievement of the medium and short term goals and objectives of the Academy.
• Install the procedures for the efficient monitoring and controlling of the activities of the Service.
• Any other responsibility that may be assigned to him by the HOD Finance and Accounts.

Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:

• Degree in Accountancy, Finance, Banking,
• Membership of a recognized professional accountancy body will be an added advantage.
• Minimum of 2 years work experience .
• Must have a demonstrated hands-on approach and success in working/leading in a team-based environment.
• Keep accurate & Up to date records of company’s financial status
• Support the finance Manager by imputing into sales and purchase ledger from source document
• Produce weekly, monthly and annual financial reports
• Input accounting data into accounting system with speed and accuracy
• Make sure payment process is in line with policy
• Prepare fixed asset inventory
• Prepare and maintain monthly cash flow projection for the period of time for which funding is available
• Manage petty cash
• Plan organize and manage own workload to ensure contribution to company’s monthly financial reporting process is achieved in timely and accurate manner.
• Assist with end of year and end of month preparation procedure
• Prepare invoices in line with contracts/Purchase Order
• Post Invoices and Purchase Orders into appropriate General Ledger heads
• All aspect of sales ledger, raising invoices, re-issue invoices and raising credit notes
• Investigating and resolving queries relating to invoices
• Perform other related duties as may be assigned by the Finance Manager

Skills/ Competencies

• Experience in setting up and critically reviewing operational performance
• Deep Experience and knowledge of Accounting Software.
• Good organizational, leadership and supervisory skills
• Excellent Strategic planning experience
• Excellent analytical mind
• Discipline and integrity
• Result oriented/quality focused disposition
• Strong communication skills
• Good IT Skills

Core Skills:

• Book keeping
• Financial Reporting
• Numeric Skills
• Speed
• PC / Personal Productivity tools-Excel, Word, Power Point
• Knowledge of relevant accounting software
• Promptness in carrying out assignments
• Ability to manage cash
• Correctness of entries
• Timeliness of reports
• Accuracy of reports

Generic Skills:

• Customer Orientation
• Dealing with stress
• Goal Orientation
• Quality Orientation
• Adaptability
• Detailed
• Result Oriented
• Resilience
• Smartness
• Integrity
• Pro-activity