Accounts Manager - PLANE at DAI

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• The Accounts Manager will be responsible for the following functions:

Book-keeping:

• Coordination of payment processes and monthly bank and cash reconciliations
• Maintain accurate and complete accounting records and audit information
• Maintain cost-share records with implementing partners
• Manage the account payable ledger, and ensure prompt and correct payments to third parties
• Supervise and ensure proper recording of project assets, including proper tagging of same

Control & Compliance:

• Audit all invoices against relevant back-up documents before presenting same for payment authorization/approval
• Coordinating External audits and ensuring they are efficient and effective
• Developing and maintaining compliance review strategies, plans, initiatives, and processes
• Ensuring all reports adhere to accounting standards, rules, regulations, local filing requirements, and accounting best practices
• Ensuring compliance with all financial management policies put in place by management
• Ensuring compliance with CIT, VAT, transfer pricing reporting requirements, and other local taxes
• Preparing statements of accounting policies for the audited financials in compliance with the IFRS
• Supervising audits of processes and controls. Also ensuring conclusions are accurate, complete, and discussed with management promptly

Financial Management:

• Ensuring effective working of the organization’s financial system software
• Lead the Finance Team across all project offices
• Manage the program’s cashflows and ensure funds are requested from DAI in a manner devoid of both cash-outs and cash pileups
• Provide the wider PLANE team with reliable timely financial information and analysis of project finances with recommendations for actions
• Providing pricing support to the business development unit
• Supervising projects’ financial management start-up and close-out
• Support Finance and Admin Officers at both state and Country Office levels

Reconciliations & Reporting:

• Investigating and reporting on adverse/ unusual trends
• Preparing and reviewing of Monthly Field Expense Reports for all locations cash and bank accounts
• Preparing and presenting monthly financial reports for the Nigerian management and the global office
• Preparing and submitting periodic cash forecasts to the global office

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS

• 10 years of previous work experience
• Degree in Accounting
• Professional qualification (ACA or ACCA) will be an added advantage.
• Knowledge of working on FCDO-funded programmes
• Knowledge of quick books
• Good understanding of financial management systems and approaches
• Excel skills
• Understand statutory requirements in Nigeria.