Accountant/Admin Officer at Owens & Xley Consults

Owens & Xley Consults - Our client, a leading party supplies company, well known for their quality and affordable party gift and decoration items, is looking to recruit qualified candidate to fill the position below:

Job Title: Accountant/Admin Officer

Location: Lagos
Job type: Full time

Job Descriptions

• He/She would be responsible for maintaining the financial and accounting function.
• S/He or she will be tasked with preparing financial statements, maintaining cash controls, preparing the payroll, managing the company’s expenses and carrying out administrative duties.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

• Assist with the preparation of the company budget
• Implement financial policies and procedures
• Establish and maintain cash controls
• Manage petty cash
• Manage expense requisition
• Manage payment process to the vendors with Business Director
• Follow up with creditors
• Ensure that invoices are sent
• Ensure that payments are made
• Assist in the day to day running of the store
• Manage employee requests
• File and manage employee records
• Reconcile bank statements
• Establish and maintain supplier/vendor accounts
• Ensure transactions are properly recorded and entered into the accounting software
• Prepare financial statements such as income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements
• Prepare quarterly reports and report on variances
• Assist with the annual audit
• Maintain financial files and records
• Perform other duties as assigned/required by the Business Director

Professional Qualifications/Experience
Educational Qualification:

• Minimum of HND/B.Sc. in a Finance and Administrative role

Experience:

• 2+ years’ experience in a similar role
• Experience in the retail industry a plus
• Use of accounting software
• Compulsory skills required (E.g. must be proficient in Excel)
• Proven integrity
• Familiarity with financial and customer service principles
• Good math skills with the ability to create and analyze reports, spreadsheets and sales statistics
• Proficient user of MS Office (MS Excel in particular)
• Must be able to prepare management reports and correspondence
• Good initiative, time and stress management skills
• Leadership and organizational abilities
• Interpersonal and communication skills
• Problem-solving attitude
• Keen eye for detail
• Preferably lives within the Lekki axis.

Renumeration
N80,000 - N100,000/Month

Application Closing Date
5th November, 2019.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV to: [email protected] using the "Job title" as subject of the email.