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Markova Creative Limited; we are a leading digital marketing agency based in Lagos, Nigeria, primarily focused on building and managing ROI focused, effective digital marketing campaigns across a variety of platforms. We are in the business of building great businesses online.
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Description
We are seeking an experienced Accountant to perform day-to-day operations accounting and analysis work, monthly reconciliations and close, analytical and general accounting support, and assisting/training account staff with proper billing and vendor set up needs.
The Accountant will be involved in all aspects of monthly accounting for an advertising agency, which will include client billing, revenue recognition,tax preparation, monthly reconciliations and month end financial statement preparation.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Meet with account staff on weekly basis to discuss status of jobs
- Review weekly office reporting and analyze ongoing trends.
- Prepare reconciliation documents for tax filing purposes
- Prepare monthly/ongoing client billing invoices for the agency.
- Cashflow management with proper accountability and documentation.
- Build and improve our banking relationships.
- Mid-month review of job status with account staff for purpose of determining monthly revenue
- Meet with account staff to complete month end review of open jobs to assess the validity of the forecast
- Support account teams with preparation and review of vendor provider agreements, and other documents
- Support account teams with review of client statements of work and terms and conditions
- Ability to anticipate needs and facilitate work.
As the Agency Account you will be the key point of contact for our account executives for related billing questions; therefore, the ideal candidate will be able to communicate with a variety of people and flexible enough to deal with multiple projects and different types of clients at the same time.
The ideal candidate uses Microsoft excel on a daily basis to ‘dump and analyze data’, and takes extreme pride in getting work done right the first time, seeks perfection and is able to interact with all levels of personnel.
Requirements
- Bachelor‘s Degree in Accounting or Finance
- 3 – 5 years of related accounting work experience
- Agency experience would be helpful but not compulsory.
- Ability to read and comprehend instructions, correspondence and common business documents and legal documents.
- Ability to write business correspondence, and effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to employees and other stakeholders.
- Ability to calculate percentage of completion revenue and to calculate deferred revenue.
- High level of proficiency in excel
- Reconciliation and analytical experience a must
- Billing experience is a must.
- Ability to analyze financial data, prepare financial reports, statements and projections
- General journal and ledger accounting experience
- Good communication skills to be able to create relationships/trust with account staff so their clients can be analyzed more efficiently. Ability to easily and clearly communicate at all levels of the organization in both written and oral form.
- Strong attention to details, timelines, deliverables and accuracy.
- Desire to work in an ever-evolving organization with a high level of urgency
- Drive to exceed expectations and become a trusted precision and performance team member.
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