Senior Finance Associate at Novella Africa

Job Objectives
The role is responsible for:

• Providing high quality and effective financial support and assistance to the Head of Finance
  as required,
• Maintaining financial and accounting services in accordance with internal procedures, good
  practices, and statutory requirements,
• Monitoring and reviewing financial systems and procedures and recommend, devise, and
  implement more effective and efficient procedures,
• Preparing financial reports in liaison with the Head of Finance and other stakeholders,
• General administration of the finance function as assigned.

Responsibilities

• Preparation of periodic financial statements for the management
• Up to date posting of transactions on the accounting software
• Review and prepare a monthly budget performance report, (Budget v Actual)
• Inflows: Preparation and submission of inflow reports within 24hours after the event or service
• Reconciliation of all accounts (cash, cheques, online transfers).
• Reconciliation of all card transactions (Naira & USD)
• Monitor Vendors and contractors’ obligations and liabilities
• Monthly report and monitoring of schedule of contract obligations
• Management of Fixed Asset Register
• Regular updating the Insurance Register
• Accounting for obsolete assets on the Register and escalate to the Head of Finance (HoF)
• Treatment of Prepayments and Accruals for all insurance of the Organisation
• Remittance of Pensions, PAYE, WHT, ITF, NSITF and other statutory obligation
• Fixed deposit management and tracking QuickBooks and Excel.
• Preparation of correspondences to banks and other parties
• Management of existing relationships with all external stakeholders
• Attend and resolve issues with internal parties, auditors, banks, congregants, and vendors.
• Ensure availability on all service days.
• Provide support during the treasury management process
• Ensure accuracy of data compiled for the service report before submission to HoF

Qualifications

• Candidates should possess a Bachelor's Degree with at least 5 years work experience.