Finance Manager at Crowdforce

Overview

• We are a Technology company providing data & financial services.

Principal Duties / Tasks and Responsibilities
Account Functions:

• Provide professional guidance and processing for all day-to-day, business and financial transactions.
• Coordinate the general day–to–day administration of the Finance department.
• Set up financial and manage processes such as request processes, retirement processes, etc.
• Ensure that Crowd Force is up to date on all statutory financial and tax regulations, e.g. PAYE, FIRS, PENCOM, etc.
• Vet all financial transactions and ensure they meet our internal control processes.
• Analysis and record all expenditures into the respective expense type.
• Controls the cash flow position throughout the company understand the sources and uses of cash and maintains the integrity of funds, securities, and other valuable documents.
• Oversees payment of vendors and other transactions as required.
• Monitors and manages cash advance retirements by Crowd Force staff.
• Resolving accounting discrepancies.
• Processing all invoices, expense forms, and requests for payment.
• Dealing with daily transactions for petty cash and ensuring that reconciliations are completed on a weekly and monthly basis.
• Compiles and prepares periodic budgets and forecast proposals using the information provided by all departments and the approved business strategy.
• Assist in extracting, collating, and consolidating information needed to generate the company’s annual operating budget.
• Analyzing business operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations, to project future revenues and expenses or to provide advice.
• Analyzing revenue and expenditure trends and recommend appropriate budget levels, and ensure expenditure control.
• Prepare final accounts by ensuring all account schedules agree with the General ledger balances
• Ensure all remittances to external regulators as expected
• Monitor the CAPEX and OPEX expenses while ensuring adequate compliance to financial prudence ethics.
• Liaise with team leads on operations expenses costing and project costs.
• Support the establishment of prices and monitor Invoices for products sold to clients
• Compute taxes owed and prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with other statutory requirements.
• Liaising with internal and external auditors and dealing with any financial irregularities as they arise
• Prepare monthly payroll and manage disbursement of payments to all staff and other statutory bodies.
• Liaise with banks and manage all banking and reconciliation exercises.
• Preparing and review budget, revenue, expense, payroll entries, invoices, and other accounting documents.
• Prepare, examine, or analyze accounting records, financial statements, or other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.
• Develop, maintain, and analyze budgets, preparing periodic reports that compare budgeted costs to actual costs.

Education /Certifications / Experience

• A minimum of Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, and/or Economics is highly desirable.
• A Master’s Degree in Finance or other relevant postgraduate degrees will be an advantage.
• Must have professional certifications and memberships
• Post graduate degree in any of the above courses or an MBA is an added advantage.
• Qualified accountant to at least CIMA, ACCA, ACA or CIPFA level.

Functional Competencies

• Ability to work effectively under pressure
• Must be able to address vendors in a corporate/diplomatic manner
• Is experienced in bookkeeping and advanced use of Microsoft excel
• Has integrity
• He/she should be able to move around and work professionally
• Should be organized
• Ability to work effectively with little or no supervision