Accountant at Wartsila Marine

Position Description

• Wartsila Nigeria is now looking for energetic and service minded Accountants. These positions are located in Lagos, Nigeria,

Responsibilities

• Perform Transactional related task.
• Provide reports and assists in conducting analysis on the financial performance.
• Ensure that financial information is in compliance with Corporate and local guidelines (Corporate manual, accounting manual, local legislation, directives etc.).
• Ensure FICO documents are prepared according to contract.
• Booking of purchase invoices to correct G/L accounts with correct VAT codes
• Booking purchase invoices against correct purchase orders and items
• Checking the correctness of purchase invoices (legal requirements to be fulfilled)
• Ensuring that approved invoices will go for payment according to due dates by collecting also all possible cash discounts
• initiate actions to improve financial performance with in own responsibility area.

Requirements

• Knowledge of finance module in SAP
• Local tax knowledge Bachelor in Accounting & Finance or equivalent qualification 3-5 years post qualification experience in Finance and Accounting.
• ICAN certified or relevant professional body.
• Systematic and organized way of working
• Good communication skills and ability to work with people from different cultures
• Flexibility and good team working skills, ability to coordinate work within team
• Positive attitude and pro-active thinking, interest in process optimization
• Customer service skills