Accounts Officer at Access Solutions

Job Description

• Prepare, examine, and analyze accounting records, financial statements, and other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.
• Compute taxes owed and prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting and other tax requirements.
• Analyze business operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations, to project future revenues and expenses or to provide advice.
• Report to management regarding the financial health and status of the Organization.
• Establish tables of accounts, and assign entries to proper accounts.
• Develop, maintain, and analyze budgets, preparing periodic reports that compare budgeted costs to actual costs.
• Develop, implement, modify, and document recordkeeping and accounting systems, making use of current computer technology.
• Prepare forms and manuals for accounting and bookkeeping personnel, and direct their work activities.
• Survey operations to ascertain accounting needs and to recommend, develop, and maintain solutions to business and financial problems.

REQUIREMENTS

• HND or Bachelors in Accounting
• Minimum of 1 year experience in a finance team, with at least one year in an Accounts or banking Officer position

Desirable:

• Experience in working in a bank an added advantage.
• Member of Accounting Professional body is an added advantage.
• Working knowledge of accounting software
• Good excel and other software skills

Essential:

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Knowledge of ICT business and  financial reporting requirements
• Excellent computer skills with high proficiency in Microsoft excel
• Good analytical and reporting skills
• Strong ability to be able to manage and priorities multiple tasks.
• Willingness to learn at all times.

Desirable:

• Working knowledge of accounting software is an added advantage
• Trustworthiness, Stress tolerance and operational decision making skills is an added advantage.