Bursar at Bells University of Technology

Description

• The Bursar is the Chief Financial Officer of the University and is directly responsible to the Vice-Chancellor for the Management and control of the finances of the University.
• He/She shall advise the Vice-Chancellor on finance-related matters, co-ordinate the development and update the University's financial management plans, co-ordinate the preparation of periodic income and expenditure statements, balance sheet, and cash flow estimates and consolidation when necessary.
• He/She shall ensure that accurate records are maintained of all assets and liabilities (local and foreign) held by the University.
• The duties also include monitoring monthly income and expenditure and balance sheet variances against the budgets, ensuring that they are reconciled, monitoring treasury activities, including cash flow projections and forecasts for prudence and accountability and negotiating with financial and government institutions with regard to financial matters.

Requirements

• The applicant must possess a honours Degree in any of the following: Accounting, Economics, Finance or any related discipline with a minimum of second class lower division from a recognized University.
• Possession of a Master's Degree will be an added advantage. In addition, the applicant must possess any of the professionally recognized accountancy qualifications of any of the following: ACA, CIMA, CPA, ACCA, ICAN.
• Applicant must be ICT compliant and must be conversant with current trends in Financial Reporting-IFRS, IPSAS.
• Applicant must have a minimum of 15 years cognate post-professional qualification experience in a tertiary institution or relevant organisation, and must have a minimum of 5 years residency at the level of a Deputy Bursar or its equivalent.
• He/She must exhibit a considerable degree of competence, responsiveness, demonstrable integrity and transparency on matters of financial resource management.
• He/She should be of excellent physical and mental health, with good leadership qualities, focused, innovative and able to key into the vision of the University.
• Applicant should not be more than 55 years old on the date of assumption of duty on 1" August, 2026.

Conditions of Service

• The post of the University Bursar is tenure-track.
• The successful candidate shall hold the office for a term of five (5) years in the first instance, renewable, based on performance assessment, for a final term of five years and no more, an such terms and conditions as may be specified in the letter of appointment.
• The remuneration and other conditions of service are as applicable to the post of a Bursar in BellsTech and as may be determined by the Board of Trustees/Governing Council of the University, taking due cognisance of the situation in the Nigerian University System.