Retail Accountant at Food4less Supermarket Limited

At Food4less Supermarket we're dedicated to providing our customers with an exceptional shopping experience. Our mission is to offer high-quality products, excellent customer service, and competitive prices. Our founders, passionate about delivering freshness and quality to their community, built the store on the principles of excellent customer service, community involvement, and a commitment to sourcing products from local suppliers.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Retail Accountant

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• The Accountant contributes to the efficient and effective operation of Business ensuring all day-to-day finance and accounts requirements are completed as and when required.
• He must work closely with all areas of the department with the day-to-day aspects of financial management.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Produce monthly management accounts timely and accurately
• Compare actual performance against budget
• Maintaining various sales channels accounts and managing processes in relation to Accounts payable, accounts receivable
• Adhere to purchase order procedures such as bank reconciliations, fixed assets, inventory, sales / Point of Sale reconciliations e.t.c
• Timely rendition of accounting information and the preparation of monthly sales budgets, daily reports of individual representatives & product line
• Day-day sales analysis, daily payment analysis (i.e. stock, cash, credit, bank transaction)
• Weekly- Total sales, credit sales, cash sales, sales made to various sales channels, expenses incurred, all deposits.
• Monthly-Monthly analysis of daily and weekly reports, goods ordered.
• Maintaining the accounts of clients, and managing processes in relation to: bank reconciliations, Inventory and stock analysis reports and analyze variances Point of Sale (POS)
• Job costing and management
• Ensure timely rendition of daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly sales report (scrutinize the Daily Sales Reports submitted by the Sales Team.)
• Create and maintain weekly dashboard (i.e. sales achieved against budget)
• Timely collection of receivables in line with the stipulated Credit/Payment Policies of the company.

Requirements

• Candidates should possess a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting required.
• Minimum of two or more years experience in accounting and auditing.
• Good Communication skills.
• Proficient in spreadsheet software (Excel) and Word.
• Access and Accounting Software knowledge preferred.

Knowledge and Experience:

• Ability/experience in processing accounting transactions including accounts payable, accounts receivable, and reconciliations
• Ability to meet deadlines and prioritize tasks; work efficiently with minimal supervision; detail-oriented.
• The ideal candidate should reside in the Ikorodu axis.

Application Closing Date
17th January, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Applications to: recruitment.buwakyenterprises@gmail.com using the Job Title as the subject of the email.