Financial Accountant at MonuRent Equipment & Service Solutions

Summary of Responsibilities

• Responsible Accounts Payable and supplier relationship management.
• Review of Bank and Cash transactions bookings into the correct general ledger accounts with the correct projects codes and asset ID’s before postings.
• Perform weekly and monthly cash and bank reconciliations.
• Preparation of weekly cash flow for the Financial Controller review and approval.
• Maintaining of Fixed Assets register and capturing of costs to the relevant assets.
• Booking of journals entries during month end accounts reconciliations.
• Inventory Management - Review of project stock reports and highlight issues and suggest recommendations of improvements.

Support Duties:

• Support the accounts receivable team with update on cash and withholding tax receipts from customers and then allocation of such payments into the relevant accounts and general ledgers.
• Provide assistance to the financial controller during statutory audits.
• Review of project payroll information before sending such information to Payroll Company to process month end payrolls.
• Support in the filling of all statutory payments such as custom duties, clearing and port charges, payroll taxes and deductions, corporate taxes and others.
• Month End closing activities and balance Sheet accounts reconciliations.

Person Specification
Qualifications:

• Degree or relevant qualification in Accounting, Finance, Business and Statistics discipline
• Must be a Chartered Accountant with ACCA/ACA or Certified Tax Accountant.

Experience:

• At least three years’ work experience in finance/account environment; experience from an audit or tax firm would be an advantage.

Flexibilities:

• The person should be willing to work long hours and weekends when required.
• Ability to travel across Nigeria to all project site on a regular basis when required.

Knowledge & Skills:

• Strong analytical and accounting skills.
• Advanced computer literacy, including skills in Microsoft Office (in particular Excel).
• Self-motivated to achieve established and agreed goals and objectives.
• Good interpersonal skills - capable of working with staff at all levels both within and outside the organization and provide prompt responses and status updates on the progress towards assigned tasks
• Strong written and oral skills in English.
• A high level of commercial awareness and the ability to understand how equipment rental business works