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Location: Jos, Plateau
Division: Pharmaceuticals
Functional Area: Accounting
Job Type: Full Time
Employment Type: Regular

Job Brief

• We are looking for an Accountant to manage all financial transactions, from fixed payments and variable expenses to bank deposits and budgets.
• Accountant responsibilities include auditing financial documents and procedures, reconciling bank statements and calculating tax payments and returns. To be successful in this role, you should have previous experience with bookkeeping and a flair for spotting numerical mistakes.
• Ultimately, you will provide us with accurate quantitative information on financial position, liquidity and cash flows of our business, while ensuring we’re compliant with all tax regulations.

Responsibilities
The main results the job holder is accountable for delivering:

• Manage all accounting transactions
• Prepare budget forecasts
• Publish financial statements in time
• Handle monthly, quarterly and annual closings
• Reconcile accounts payable and receivable
• Ensure timely bank payments
• Compute taxes and prepare tax returns
• Manage balance sheets and profit/loss statements
• Report on the company’s financial health and liquidity
• Audit financial transactions and documents
• Reinforce financial data confidentiality and conduct database backups when necessary
• Comply with financial policies and regulations

Job Duties and Tasks

• Prepare, examine, and analyze accounting records, financial statements, and other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.
• Compute 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.
• Report to management regarding the finances of establishment.
• Establish tables of accounts, and assign entries to proper accounts.
• Develop, maintain, and analyze budgets, preparing periodic reports that compare budgeted costs to actual costs.
• Develop, implement, modify, and document recordkeeping and accounting systems, making use of current computer technology.
• Prepare forms and manuals for accounting and bookkeeping personnel, and direct their work activities.
• Survey operations to ascertain accounting needs and to recommend, develop, and maintain solutions to business and financial problems.
• Work as Internal Revenue Service agents.
• Advise management about issues such as resource utilization, tax strategies, and the assumptions underlying budget forecasts.
• Provide internal and external auditing services for businesses and individuals.
• Investigate bankruptcies and other complex financial transactions and prepare reports summarizing the findings.
• Represent clients before taxing authorities and provide support during litigation involving financial issues.
• Appraise, evaluate, and inventory real property and equipment, recording information such as the property’s description, value, and location.
• Serve as bankruptcy trustees and business valuators.

Requirements

• Work experience as an Accountant
• Excellent knowledge of accounting regulations and procedures, including the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
• Hands-on experience with accounting softwares like Peachtree, FreshBooks, QuickBooks and any other enterprise resource software
• Advanced MS Excel skills including Vlookups and pivot tables
• Experience with general ledger functions
• Strong attention to detail and good analytical skills
• B.Sc in Accounting, Finance or relevant degree
• Additional certification (CPA or CMA) is a plus

Knowledge, Experience, Education Required:

• Mathematics: Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
• Economics and Accounting:  Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
• English Language: Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
• Customer and Personal Service: Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.

Abilities Needed:

• Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
• Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
• Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
• Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
• Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
• Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
• Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
• Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
• Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
• Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
• Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
• Flexibility of Closure: The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
• Perceptual Speed: The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
• Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.

Skills Needed:

• Mathematics: Using mathematics to solve problems.
• Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
• Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Active Learning: Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
• Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
• Systems Analysis: Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
• Systems Evaluation: Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
• Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others’ actions.
• Management of Financial Resources: Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
• Time Management: Managing one’s own time and the time of others.
• Social Perceptiveness: Being aware of others’ reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
• Operations Analysis: Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.
• Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.
• Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
• Learning Strategies: Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
• Writing: Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.

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Job ID: 002
Location: Nationwide
Division: Pharmaceuticals
Functional Area: Sales
Job Type: Full Time
Employment Type: Regular

Job Purpose

• The Area Sales Manager is responsible for making sure sales targets are met within the designated sales area or territory.
• Area Sales Managers develop a close relationship with all their major accounts to grow business organically and find new business.
• Area Sales Managers are experts in understanding their products, market area, trends, opportunities and competitive activity.

Key Accountabilities
The main results the job holder is accountable for delivering:

• Finding new customers and constantly expanding the business.
• Monitoring sales data and keeping up to date with current market trends and customer needs.
• First class consultative sales skills. Good understanding of Features and Benefits.
• Monitor sales and profit for each account.
• Preparing account profiles for company accounts.
• Identify and create a strong loyal relationship with all decision makers.
• Ability to complete management reports on time (Very essential).
• Aware of applicable company KPIs and business plan.
• Be aware of all competitive activities within major accounts.
• Good disciplined use of CRM and administration.
• Sales presentations for clients showing the success and credibility of the business and its products
• Give pricing information to management and make recommendations.
• Establishing and maintaining relationships with suppliers if appropriate.
• Create sales strategies for sales manager/director to approve
• Measuring and improving sales rep performance

Experience and Knowledge

• Minimum of 4 years Experience as an Area Sales Manager in the Pharmaceutical Industry.
• Geographical Knowledge of territories.
• Familiar with standard concepts, practices & Procedures within the pharmaeutical Industry in Nigeria
• Proven level of Integrity
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Sales experience essential.
• Demonstrable and successful sales track record
• Good technical background in Pharmaceutical/Ophthalmic product area is desirable
• Good presentation skills
• Proven record of effectively meeting sales quotas
• A degree in Business Studies would be an advantage