Account Officer at Salpha Energy Limited

Job Summary
As one of the company’s Account Officers, you will work to ensure compliance with the company’s policies in relation to the following:

• Account Reconciliation
• Credit & Sales Policies
• Sales Collection & Banking
• Float & Expenses Policy & management
• Inventory Management
• Stock Policy
• Budgeting Guidelines / Budget Implementation
• Statutory Dues Rendition.

Job Details

• Maintain and ensure accurate and up-to-date accounting records and inventory management across branches and locations.
• Ensure that all financial records containing stock and inventory, customer’s purchases, debts and other details across all locations are updated.
• Responsible for customer account reconciliation and accounts receivables.
• Escalate to management possible threats related to high customer debt profile and other discrepancies.
• Analyse trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations incurred to predict future revenues and expenses.
• Report the organization's finances to management and offer suggestions about resource utilization, tax strategies and assumptions underlying budget forecasts.
• Conduct debtors and ledger reconciliations
• Monitor and reconciled financial/transactional discrepancies by collecting and analyzing account information.
• Support month-end and year-end financial closing activities
• Investigate and resolve unreconciled balances
• Ensure compliance with financial policies, accounting and internal controls by recommending standard procedures.
• Track outstanding payments and recovery processes
• Analyze financial data for accuracy, completeness, and consistency
• Collaborate with treasury and finance teams on financial operations
• Prepare and post journal entries and account adjustments
• Ensure timely reconciliation of all assigned accounts
• Substantiate financial transactions by auditing documents.
• Ensure accurate capturing of sales records, debts and customer details.
• Comply with federal, state, and local financial legal requirements by studying existing and new legislation, enforcing adherence to requirements, and advising management on needed actions.
• Maintain customer confidence and protect operations by keeping financial information confidential.
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional societies.
• Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

Key Qualities Expected

• Appearance and Dress:The Account Officer will be clean and neatly attired while on duty in a manner befitting of your position.
• Integrity: A core value at the center of our business is highly required for this position.
• Teamwork:Ability to work within a diverse team to actualize organizational goals above personal gains.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure to meet deadlines.
• Result and service orientation.
• Ability to multi-task effectively.