Job Vacancies at Phillips Outsourcing

REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university.
• Candidate with experience financial institutions will be preferred
• Minimum 8 years of experience with at least 3 years in a senior position/role.
• Compliance experience in a CBN regulated entity.
• Masters’ degree will be an advantage.
• Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills with the ability to articulate complex ideas and concepts clearly.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and collaborate with diverse teams.
• Ability to be adaptive, flexible and collaborative.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide sound advice on compliance matters to the organization as well as its various business units and departments.
• Review internal policies and ensure that they are in compliance with all applicable statutory or regulatory requirements.
• Drive awareness and compliance with regulatory and statutory directives and requirements.
• Liaise and engage regulatory bodies/authorities on the organization’s behalf.
• Keep abreast of, monitor and analyze regulatory trends and changes in regulatory directives, rules and regulations.
• Assist the Chief Legal Officer with any other duties or projects as required.

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Salary: 500kgross

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Management Sciences such as Accounting, Economics e.t.c
• Must have 4-6 years relevant work experience in Finance and accounting role in a Manufacturing or Trading company is a MUST
• Professional qualification ICAN/ACCA is compulsory
• Hands-on experience with ERP SYSTEMS
• High proficiency in Microsoft office (Excel, word and Powerpoint and writing skills)

Responsibilities

• Manage accounting and financial systems and maintain full and accurate accounting records: approve journal accounting entries and ensure appropriate set up of all inflow entries from ERP system.
• Maintain an adequate balance sheet schedule.
• Reconcile General Ledger accounts to ensure accuracy and reliability of financial statements.
• Conduct financial analysis and prepare detailed financial reports and statements in accordance with financial reporting standards.
• Ensure smooth running of the Accounts Payable service.
• Ensure commitment authority is exercised before payment authority.
• Manages complex planning studies, development applications and reviews proposals from other departments.
• Ensure statutory audited financial statements are available to meet the above meeting legal timeline.
• Respond to auditors’ comments (findings in the inquiries or transmittals) concerning finance and operations and oversee required actions to address deficiencies.
• Ensure general ledger accounts are reconciled as per standard accounts reconciliation
• Responsible for statutory tax compliance and implement all tax laws as applicable to PAYE, VAT, and withholding tax.
• Ensure application of correct rate and timely remittance of amount due to the relevant tax authorities
• Assisting management in the decision-making process by preparing budgets and financial forecasts.
• Identify process improvement in the finance department
• Managing relationships with bankers and other regulatory agencies.

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Responsibilities 

Compliance:

• Support the Direct/Indirect tax teams to ensure timely remittance of taxes and resolve related issues.
• Obtain, collate and retain evidence of all tax remittances.
• Maintain a tracker for all tax payments.
• Support in processing Tax Clearance Certificate (TCC) for the Business.
• Visit tax offices for submission of letters/resolution of tax matters where required.
• Handle FIRS inspection of stock decantation and destruction exercises i.e., prepare and file invitation letters and supporting appendices to FIRS, agree a date for FIRS to witness the exercise and follow-up where necessary, plan with internal teams ahead of inspection, provide field logistics support to FIRS during inspection, represent Tax during the inspection exercise.
• Ensure timely upload of tax payment receipts (PAYE tax, VAT, WHT, Excise Duty and TCC) on the Business’tax compliance register for internal control purposes.
• Support the payroll team to ensure timely submission of tax returns to State IRSs.

Support during Tax Audits:

• Follow-up with relevant teams on document requests.
• Collate, review and analyse documents to be shared with consultants/Tax Authorities.
• Collaborate with internal teams: direct/indirect tax, procurement, facilities, security, safety teams, etc. ahead of field tax audits to ensure seamless exercises.
• Provide requested documents to consultants to ensure timely responses on audits.
• Reconcile and deal with suppliers’ concerns on WHT and VAT.
• Respond to all routine and ad-hoc requests addressed to the tax team.
• Participate in month end and year end reporting, and annual tax filing activities.
• Maintain good working relationships with all internal and external tax stakeholders.
• Perform all assigned tasks directly or indirectly related to, additional or supplementary to the scope of duties in this role profile.

Requirements

• Degree-level qualification in Accounting, Business Administration, or any related field with relevant work experience.
• Experience 2-3 years post qualification experience with proven integrity.
• Use of Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Basic knowledge of accounting software – SAP.

Salary

N250,000  Net + Other Benefits