Accountant at De-Tastee Fried Chicken Limited

De Tastee Group is a leading quick service restaurant, Outdoor Caterers, Event Hall Managers and Home delivery hospitality outfit.

Our sumptuous meals are produced under a very stringent hygienic environment with our branches located strategically with beautiful ambience for family and friends.Our event halls comes with ultra modern and vintage interior finishing to give guests a memorable experience.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Accountant

Location: Lagos
Reporting Line: Group Accounts Manager

General Objective / Purpose of Job

• To ensure accurate maintenance of the Company’s Books of Accounts and the timely rendition of financial information and reports to Management
• To prepare the Departmental / Divisional Budget and ensure appropriate budgetary discipline is maintained
• To ensure compliance to financial systems, policies and procedures within which the company operates or as established and prompt / adequate steps taken to attend to known deviations or weaknesses

Principal Responsibilities / Accountabilities

• Prepare Outlets Divisional books of accounts, including General ledger, Trial Balance and Balance Sheet
• Prepare Outlet Budget
• Constantly review the Divisional Budget to ensure budgetary discipline is maintained
• Monitors stock in the Outlet and ensures all stock items in the monthly inventory are properly valued
• Keep accounts for individual warehouse Trade and Sundry Creditors and Debtors and ensures that balances agree with general ledger
• Reconciliation of accounting statements and proper documentation
• Monitor Cashiers to ensure proper accountability
• Prepare monthly details of lodgments and send to the Group Finance Manager
• Monitor Petty Cash and ensure all payments are properly coded and correctly posted and that monthly balances are in agreement with general ledger
• Attend to the company’s payment procedure to ensure that payment documents are properly scrutinized and that valid payments are timely made and recorded in the company Books of Accounts.
• Ensure that procedures for all Financial Data capture and entry into the computerized accounting system including authorization are followed as laid down to ensure authenticity and completeness of accounting information.
• Attend to internal control issues to ensure that activities within the department comply with laid down systems and procedures and deviations promptly noted and attended to
• Carry out Ad – hoc review of these systems and procedures and brings areas of improvement to Management attention
• Ensure proper control on Capital and Revenue Expenditure
• Ensures accurate timely preparation of monthly, quarterly and Annual Balance Sheets, Profit and Loss Accounts and various other periodical reports needed to enhance effectiveness and efficient Management decision making

Requirements

• B.Sc /HND in Accountancy, Finance, Economics.
• ICAN professional certification will be an added advantage (Compulsory for Managers)
• Minimum of two years work experience (minimum of 5 for Managers)
• High attention to detail, excellent analytical skill and problem-solving skill.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Excellent documentation, communication and IT skills (Preference for knowledge and use of Sage).
• Ability to work on large amounts of data and to compile detailed reports
• Conversant with the preparation of accounting books in line with IFRS standard

Application Closing Date
31st August, 2019.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] Using the "Job Title" as the subject of the mail.

Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.