Oracle Accounting Officer at IITA - International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

Duties
Successful candidate will among other things perform the following duties:

•     Purchase Order Accounting Management:

1.         Reconcile Commitments and or Obligations on Purchase Orders (P.O) / Requisitions;
2.         Periodically advise delivery status on paid P.O that have not been receipted and follow up with Supply Chain as necessary;
3.         Monitor Local Prepaid orders and follow up with the buyer;
4.         Provide Audit figure for Inventory and non-inventory Good-In-Transit at year-end financial accounts compilation;
5.         Raise appropriate journal as necessary to correct wrong P. O coding of actual charges or elimination of encumbrances wrongly created;

•     Inventory Management:

1.         Run daily the Cost Manager;
2.         Adjust for Invoice Price Variance (IPV);
3.         Attend to issue of wrong item pricing and correct as appropriate;
4.         Compute appropriate price when storekeepers are making item transfers;
5.         Close Cost module at month end accounts closure processes;
6.         Coordinate Annual Stock Count;
7.         Provide Year End Inventory Value for annual audit purpose;

•     Process and upload financial spreadsheets into Oracle.
•     Review Purchase Orders related payment vouchers as initiated by treasury staff.
•     Assist in Fixed Assets Management.
•     Perform any other duty assigned by the supervisor

Educational, Experience and Other Requirements

•     HND/BSc degree in Accounting, Finance or any other relevant field with 3 years of experience performing similar role.
•     Professional Membership of any of the following: ICAN, ACCA is highly essential.

The ideal candidate must have:

•     Good experience of ORACLE system or any related ERP package
•     Good communication skills
•     Ability to work under pressure
•     Strong ability to co-ordinate, prioritise and take initiative