Senior Accountant - Reporting and Treasury at Lumos Nigeria

Lumos is a market leader in Africa in offering affordable and clean solar energy to a pan-African potential market of 1.3 billion customers. Lumos Group has existed since 2013 and has deployed more than 200,000 solar home systems to SMEs and retail customers. In the last 1.5 years, Lumos has developed a new business strategy addressing both the changing customer needs and challenges in the industry. The change in strategy is successful and has resulted in a solid stream of sales. Based on this result, management has decided to expand the sales in 2024 and accelerate the growth.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Accountant - Reporting and Treasury

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Your Responsibilities
Will include:
Financial and tax reporting:

• Prepare monthly IFRS financial information.
• Prepare yearly statutory financial statements
• Prepare consolidation package
• Prepare all tax and other regulatory reporting.

General ledger maintenance:

• Overseeing the general ledger.
• Ensuring all transactions are recorded accurately and timely.
• Assisting in the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing processes.

Leading financial audit and tax audits:

• Be the lead person for handling the audit of the financial statements and consolidation reporting.
• Lead the tax audits.
• Ensure that all audit findings are followed up on.

Accounting analysis:

• Follow all developments in IFRS and CAMA and prepare analysis of the impact on Lumos Nigeria.
• Follow all developments in in all tax laws and prepare analysis of the impact on Lumos Nigeria.
• Ensure that the outcome of the analyses are implemented throughout the company.

Treasury:

• Lead the operational relationship with the banks and other payment providers.
• Ensure that all payments are paid on time and are correct.
• Handle and manage all other treasury tasks.

Team Management:

• Lead the accounting and treasury team members.
• Mentor and coach team members to enhance skills and expertise.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Requirements
An ideal candidate has the following profile:

• HND / B.Sc / M.Sc Degrees in Accountancy / Finance combined with ICAN, ACCA (equivalent)
• 3 - 5 years work experience as finance professional with a progressive career path.
• Hands-on experience with ERP systems
• Big 4 experience is an added advantage
• Deeply enthusiastic about accounting and a real understanding that accounting can have a positive impact on the business
• Experienced with tax and other regulatory reporting
• Being able to handle large data sets in excel and to use it for depreciation, impairment, deferred income calculations etc.
• Experience with operational treasury tasks.
• Pro-active, energetic, and no-nonsense
• Team player
• Excellent communication and reporting skills
• Focused on developing him/herself and the team
• Continuously striving for improvement and resilient
• High business acumen - streetwise
• Knowledge of French is an advantage
• High integrity is a must.

What Working at Lumos Offers
We offer the following:

• At Lumos we find it important to develop our staff to be amongst the best people working in Nigeria
• We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance
• A knowledgeable, high-achieving, experienced and fun team
• Amazing opportunities for career progression
• Health care benefits and pension.

Application Closing Date
25th October, 2024.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Applications (CV as well as an Application Letter) including their motivation and assessment of their suitability for the job to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.

Note: The application process will include interviews and tests as applicable.