Job Vacancies at Diversey Nigeria

Job Description

• Reporting to the Finance Lead - West Africa, the incumbent will provide financial support the Nigeria and Ghana team through coordinating External Audits, Filing Tax Returns, banking activities, supply chain finance and analysis and administrative support.
• Internal and External Stakeholders management, ensuring cordial relationships are maintained with internal contacts – Management, Sales, Value-Chain and other departments as well as external contacts – Banks, Tax and Other Regulatory Authorities.
• Management of activities covering- Letters of Credit reconciliation, Banking instructions, settlement of open inter company bills.
• Ensuring statutory compliance and timely filing of tax returns- VAT, CIT, NHF, e.tc. Processing tax clearance certificate, Withholding Tax reconciliation and utilization reporting.
• Support closure of statutory audit for Nigeria/Ghana, support month end activities covering- provisions, reconciliations. Responding to regional ad-hoc data request on Sales, GSA and GL enquiries.
• Accounting responsibility covering, General Ledger postings and reconciliations, sales commission and incentives processing, support, stocks management, coordinating quarterly stocks count, supporting the customer service to ensure accurate billing, Intercompany/global recharge, ensuring approval processes are followed within the organization, purchases, payments, free-on-loan items, etc
• Maintaining office infrastructure/facilities including I.T, Internet, suitable outsourced catering, co-ordination of other 3rd party service providers – Insurance Brokers, Agent (Workforce group Nigeria/Ghana) Health Maintenance Organizations. Site contractors overtime payment processing and their tax clearance processing.  Supporting site audit and 3rd party audit of Diversey system.
• Travel Management (both resident employees and visiting expatriates) – sourcing for suitable hotel accommodation providers, negotiating for suitable discounts, ensuring travel advances are pre-approved, invitation letters and other documents are prepared and forwarded on a timely basis for successful entry visa application, hotel reservation and flight tickets are booked, airport pick-ups are undertaken and guest generally have a good experience during their stay.

Qualifications Desired (Skills, Experience And Knowledge)

• University Degree in Business, Finance or Accounting.
• Professional accounting qualification
• 4-5 years experience in accounting.
• Excellent technical knowledge of budgeting, cash management, financial statements and financial analysis processes.
• Knowledgeable of Treasury management processes
• Proven ability to analyse complex business issues and identify, design and implement effective practical recommendations
• ERP – SAP Knowledge an added advantage.
• Advanced excel skills a must.
• Able to operate in a performance driven organization
• Culturally aware and adept at working across multiple geographies

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Job Description

• The Account Commercial Executive is a technical sales role, and requires full accountability of the executive for the success of maintaining a long term and financially sound relationship with the customer accounts that are assigned to him or her.   
• The role requires efforts in establishing the potential in the assigned customer / territory and building the business for extra revenue and solutions to create win-win situations in between customers and Diversey.  The role combines business management as well regular technical service to the customer in order to gain the role of an expert partner and to ensure results are delivered as planned.
• The ACE will be expected to assess the potential and prioritize to build the business within current customers, or hunting new potentials, while ensuring the maintenance of the current portfolio with regular visits, creating the right relationships with the stakeholders, and delivering results through hygiene and operational efficiency.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Service the account to improve environmental profile of the customer, set up operational efficiency efforts, and optimize the Diversey portfolio to deliver hygiene results and the success of the customer for protection of its brand and safety of its guests and staff.
• Work with other departments to ensure proper payment of the customer, ensure that products are delivered as planned and promised to the customer
• Conduct and/or deliver training to customers for improved hygiene operations at customer sites.
•  Create a customer loyalty and trust with good service, and deliver financial results for Diversey at the same time.
• Roll out innovations of Diversey to customer to add further value
• Conduct visits to sort out problems / troubleshoot with respect to the topic of hygiene, environment, or operational effectiveness
• Create synergies with different levels and departments of a customer, i.e. From hotel maids, to housekeepers up to GMs or regional executives of a brand.
• Analyze portfolios to implement changes to improve business results, while attaining or favorably also improving hygiene performance at customer site
• This is a direct, customer-facing sales role with responsibility to retain existing revenues and close new revenue opportunities with both existing and new customers.

Qualifications Desired (Skills, Experience and Knowledge)

• A University Degree in Sciences or any other related discipline with a minimum of 3 years relevant experience.
• Experience handling major accounts in a B to B selling environment will be an added advantage
• In-depth understanding and experience in Hospitality industry (hotels, lodges, hospitals, institutions) will be a key advantage.
• He /she must be self-driven with a “can do” attitude and passion to achieve results under minimum supervision.
• Must possess great interpersonal and communication skills
• Must possess a valid driving license.