Senior Accountant - Reporting and Treasury at Lumos

Your Responsibilities
Will include:
Financial and tax reporting:

• Prepare monthly IFRS financial information.
• Prepare yearly statutory financial statements
• Prepare consolidation package
• Prepare all tax and other regulatory reporting.

General ledger maintenance:

• Overseeing the general ledger.
• Ensuring all transactions are recorded accurately and timely.
• Assisting in the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing processes.

Leading financial audit and tax audits:

• Be the lead person for handling the audit of the financial statements and consolidation reporting.
• Lead the tax audits.
• Ensure that all audit findings are followed up on.

Accounting analysis:

• Follow all developments in IFRS and CAMA and prepare analysis of the impact on Lumos Nigeria.
• Follow all developments in in all tax laws and prepare analysis of the impact on Lumos Nigeria.
• Ensure that the outcome of the analyses are implemented throughout the company.

Treasury:

• Lead the operational relationship with the banks and other payment providers.
• Ensure that all payments are paid on time and are correct.
• Handle and manage all other treasury tasks.

Team Management:

• Lead the accounting and treasury team members.
• Mentor and coach team members to enhance skills and expertise.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Requirements
An ideal candidate has the following profile:

• HND / B.Sc / M.Sc Degrees in Accountancy / Finance combined with ICAN, ACCA (equivalent)
• 3 - 5 years work experience as finance professional with a progressive career path.
• Hands-on experience with ERP systems
• Big 4 experience is an added advantage
• Deeply enthusiastic about accounting and a real understanding that accounting can have a positive impact on the business
• Experienced with tax and other regulatory reporting
• Being able to handle large data sets in excel and to use it for depreciation, impairment, deferred income calculations etc.
• Experience with operational treasury tasks.
• Pro-active, energetic, and no-nonsense
• Team player
• Excellent communication and reporting skills
• Focused on developing him/herself and the team
• Continuously striving for improvement and resilient
• High business acumen - streetwise
• Knowledge of French is an advantage
• High integrity is a must.

What Working at Lumos Offers
We offer the following:

• At Lumos we find it important to develop our staff to be amongst the best people working in Nigeria
• We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance
• A knowledgeable, high-achieving, experienced and fun team
• Amazing opportunities for career progression
• Health care benefits and pension.