Treasury Officer (General Treasury) at Nestle Foods

Job Description

• Nestlé Nigeria is currently looking to hire a Treasury Officer. The job holder would assist the Treasury department in achieving the Country's overall objectives for General Treasury operations, in compliance with the organization's Accounting Standards, as well as local laws and regulations.

A day in the life of...

• Coordinating the end-to-end processing of employees’ advances and reimbursements.
• Ensuring daily, the timely preparation of JVs via tickets to post manual payments and miscellaneous inflows to vendors or GL accounts as appropriate.
• Coordinating bank reconciliation activities to resolve on a timely basis, the bank clearing open items.
• Following up with banks for payment advices, telexes, import duties, taxes, receipts and other regulatory payments processed as manual payments via the appropriate platforms.
• Analyzing and clearing open vendor debit line items on a weekly basis.
• Processing investment and bank account documentations; and carrying out weekly reconciliations, as well as updates of mandates to various banks.
• Preparing inputs into the monthly Treasury report on foreign payments, inflows and bank balances.
• Processing manual payments to vendors where required.
• Assisting with following through with vendors’ payments, ensuring appropriate authorization and credit to the vendors’ accounts; also managing exceptions that may result from this process.
• Other duties assigned by the Treasury Manager.

Requirements
What will make you successful:

• Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree or its equivalent in Accounting, Business Administration, Finance, Economics or other related course.
• 2 - 3 years’ experience in an Accounting or Finance function.
• Membership of a recognized Professional Accounting body with relevant qualification(s) such as ACCA or ACA would be beneficial.
• Proficiency in the use of SAP and Microsoft Office tools.
• Good understanding of the Food and Beverage/FMCG business.
• Excellent communication skills (Written and Spoken).
• Results focus and adaptability.
• A service-oriented and continuous improvement mindset.
• Effective interpersonal/collaborative skills.