Accounts Executive at University of Lagos Bookshop

The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and maintaining accounting principles, practices and procedures to ensure accurate and timely financial statements.

Key Deliverables

• Prepare, examine, and analyze accounting records, financial statements, and other financial reports to ensure accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.
• Compute pension, taxes owed and prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting and other tax requirements.
• Analyze business operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations, to project future revenues and expenses or to provide advice.
• Develop, implement, modify, and document record keeping and accounting systems, making use of current computer technology.
• Report to management regarding the finances of establishment.
• Establish tables of accounts, and assign entries to proper accounts.
• Manage the cash flow of the company.
• Liaise with the sales officers and credit control officer in timely collection of receivables.
• Develop, maintain, and analyze budgets, preparing periodic reports that compare budgeted costs to actual costs.
• Survey operations to ascertain accounting needs and to recommend, develop, and maintain solutions to business and financial problems.

Minimum Experience/Qualification

• Minimum of 2-3 years’ experience
• Must have enrolled for or currently running  Professional Certification (ICAN,  ACCA)
• BSc in accounting or related course