Financial Accountant & Administrative Officer at Edubridge Consultants Limited

Detailed Description

• We are seeking a competent, hardworking and enthusiastic Finance officer to support our Finance and Administration unit.
• We’re young and driven IT and digital agency based in Ikeja Lagos. Due to the growth of the business, we are recruiting within our Finance Team; this is a chance to become part of our success story.

Job Purpose

• Providing key administrative support and control of AP/AR in a fast-paced exciting SME environment.
• Supports financial decision-making information by collecting, analyzing, investigating, and reporting financial data.
• Supports operations by supervising staff; planning, organizing, and implementing administrative systems.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Maintains administrative staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees; maintaining a safe and secure work environment; developing personal growth opportunities.
• Accomplishes staff results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures.
• Provides communication systems by identifying needs; evaluating options; maintaining equipment; approving invoices.
• Purchases printed materials and forms by obtaining requirements; negotiating price, quality, and delivery; approving invoices.
• Completes special projects by organizing and coordinating information and requirements; planning, arranging, and meeting schedules; monitoring results.
• Improves program and service quality by devising new applications; updating procedures; evaluating system results with users.
• Achieves financial objectives by anticipating requirements; submitting information for budget preparation; scheduling expenditures; monitoring costs; analyzing variances.
• Maintains continuity among corporate, division, and local work teams by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs
• Prepares monthly statements by collecting data; analyzing and investigating variances; summarizing data, information, and trends.
• Prepares state quarterly and annual statements by assembling data.
• Complies with state and federal tax filing requirements by studying regulations; adhering to requirements; advising management on required actions; calculating quarterly estimated tax payments; assembling data for quarterly and annual tax filings.
• Responds to financial inquiries by gathering, analyzing, summarizing, and interpreting data.
• Provides financial advice by studying operational issues; applying financial principles and practices; developing recommendations.
• Prepares special reports by studying variances; preparing budgets; developing forecasts.
• Updates job knowledge by keeping current with financial regulations and accepted practices; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; benchmarking professional standards; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

Required Key Skills and Qualifications

• Highly organized, with excellent attention to detail and the ability to work to deadlines
• A team player, with a ‘can-do’ attitude, happy to support the Administration and Finance team
• An excellent telephone manner and the determination to collect cash efficiently
• MS Excel essential, an experience of web-based ERP systems an advantage.
• Tracking Budget Expenses, Staffing, Quality Management, Managing Processes, Organization, Coaching, Communication Processes, Disciplining Employees, Motivating Others, Promoting Process Improvement, Reporting Skills.
• Deadline-Oriented, Managing Profitability, Accounting, Audit, SFAS Rules, Financial Skills, Analyzing Information, Reporting Research Results, Research Skills, Statistical Analysis, Business Knowledge.
• B.Sc degree in Accounting or any related field.

Salary
N600,000 to N1,200,000 per annum depending on experience.