Senior Accountant - Report and Treasury at Lumos Nigeria (Txtlight Power Solutions Limited)

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 - Report and Treasury

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Description 

• We are looking for a self-driven and ambitious Senior Accountant, to lead the reporting and treasury teams and ensure that Lumos has the best in class reporting and treasury process.
• Excellent financial reporting and other tax and regulatory reporting
• The implementation of best-in-class treasury process
• The continuous development of the teams.

Job Responsibilities:
Your responsibilities will include but not limited to the following:

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.

Job Requirements

• 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.
• Excellent communication and reporting skills
• Continuously striving for improvement and resilient
• Candidate must have strong business acumen.
• Candidate must have at least 5 years Finance Professional Experience with a a proven track record of achieving Business Excellence
• Must have solid hands-on experience with ERP systems
• Big 4 experience is an added advantage
• MSc / BSc /HND in Accountancy / Finance combined with ICAN, ACCA (equivalent) is preferred
• Knowledge of French is an advantage
• Candidates must be of good character and trust worthy.

Salary
N450,000 - N550,000 monthly.

Application Closing Date
17th January, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CVs to: [email protected] using the Job title as the subject of the mail.