Senior Finance & Accounting Officer at DRYVA Logistics

Responsibilities

• Work with the Corporate Finance Manager to ensure business activities and operations are profitable
• Liaise with accountants, lawyers, financial experts and regulatory bodies
• Contribute to competitive bid proposals and formal presentations
• Ensure justified bank selection process, open/close bank accounts under the authority of the CEO
• Oversee the management of bank accounts: control, follow and make sure flows are properly lettered advances, transfers, etc., check balances and justifications, authorised
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• Supervise the management of safes and cash: available amount, balance checks, security instructions
• Assess monthly cash-flow needs for projects and areas,
• Lead the company’s financial accounting, reporting and control activities, and ensuring these are carried out efficiently and line with best practice and statutory requirements.
• Develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls.
• To manage the annual audit process in conjunction with the appointed external auditors to ensure statutory accounts are produced within the required timelines.
• Ensure timely preparation and rendition of Audited Financial Statements (AFS) and the timely filing of the AFS with the relevant statutory agencies.
• Coordinate the preparation and renditions of statutory returns and compliance within the statutory provisions.
• Manage the overall accounting and bookkeeping for the organization including accounts payable and receivable, and capital assets, banking, tax and payroll functions / fringe
• benefit computations.
• Ensure timely and accurate monthly and year end closure of accounts, including bank reconciliation, accounting month and year close schedules (inventory, receivables,
• payables, loans, prepayments, deferred income, asset register), and submit reports to the CEO.
• Ensure all expenses are within assigned cost or profit centre budget and verify the completeness of all required supporting documentation for all payment vouchers
• Produce full sets (income statement, balance sheet and cashflow statements) of periodic management account and other financial documents for the management of the company
• in accordance with the prevailing policies and procedures, running full variance analysis, financial ratios and detailed note to the accounts to give actionable perspectives to the numbers
• Develops annual operating budgets as well as all project budgets and oversees them;ensure all unit heads are held to account to operate in line with the unit budget. Full
• variance analysis and corrective action plans are provided on a periodic basis (e.g. monthly/quarterly)
• Maintain integrity of data/numbers at all times. Ensure completeness, correctness and accuracy of accounting records and transactions in the financial accounting systems and
• in line with FIRS/LIRS or any state Revenue service that applies to company operations
• Ensure proper filing of source documents and records relating to the operations of every business unit.
• Investigate and resolve all queries relating to invoices.
• Carry out financial analysis related to transactions
• Present oral and written reports from time to time

Perform other duties as assigned by Management.
Qualifications

• Minimum of a second Class upper in Accounting and / or Finance from a reputable university (exceptional HND candidates will be considered)
• Professional accounting qualification (ACCA, ACA, ICAN), MBA or equivalent postgraduate management degree will be an advantage
• Cognate 3-5 years' work experience
• Ability to prepare and maintain full set of management accounts
• Practical financial modelling / forecast skills and strong understanding of tax issues
• Excellent use of modern accounting software such as SAGE, ERP, Zoho, etc.
• Excellent organizational, problem-solving and communication skills
• Excellent mathematical and numerical skills