Account Officer at Living Faith Church

Location: Ota, Ogun

Job Duties / Responsibilities

• Prepare detailed financial reports.
• Collect and analyze data to detect deficient controls, duplicated effort, extravagance, fraud, or non-compliance with laws, regulations, and management policies.
• Inspect account books and accounting systems for efficiency, effectiveness, and use of accepted accounting procedures to record transactions.
• Examine and evaluate financial and information systems, recommending controls to ensure system reliability and data integrity.
• Inspect cash on hand, notes receivable and payable, negotiable securities, and canceled checks to confirm records are accurate.
• Prepare, examine, or analyze accounting records, financial statements, or other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.
• Prepare adjusting journal entries.
• Review accounts for discrepancies and reconcile differences.
• Establish tables of accounts and assign entries to proper accounts.
• Examine inventory to verify journal and ledger entries.
• Analyze business operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations to project future revenues and expenses or to provide advice.
• Develop, implement, modify, and document recordkeeping and accounting systems, making use of current computer technology.
• Evaluate taxpayer finances to determine tax liability, using knowledge of interest and discount rates, annuities, valuation of stocks and bonds, and amortization valuation of depletable assets.
• Compute taxes owed and prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting, or other tax requirements.
• Develop, maintain, or analyze budgets, preparing periodic reports that compare budgeted costs to actual costs.
• Process invoices for payment.
• Review data about material assets, net worth, liabilities, capital stock, surplus, income, or expenditures

Educational Requirement

• B.Sc or HND in Accounting or any related discipline.
• Professional Body: ICAN, ACA. is an added advantage.
• Experience:1-3 years’ Cognitive work experience
• Age Limit: 25 – 35years years’

Job Skills
Technical Skills:

• Proficient in the use of Accounting software
• Data base reporting software
• Computer Savvy
• Document management software.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite – Excel, Word.
• Tax preparation software.
• Payroll Software.

Functional Skills:

• Good Knowledge of Economics and Accounting Principles and Practices.
• Good Mathematics Knowledge.
• Problem Solving skill
• Good Communication skill
• Good Interpersonal skill
• Numerical skills
• Decision Making
• Data Analytical skills

Behavioral Skills:

• Financial Integrity
• Critical Thinking.
• Dependability
• Cooperation.
• Initiative
• Stress Tolerance
• Independence
• Adaptability/Flexibility.
• Persistence
• Innovation
• Self - Control