Account Payable Officer at Uniterm Nigeria Limited

Uniterm Nigeria Limited was incorporated in 2004. It has grown rapidly with professional staff of about 200 delivering quality and cost effective services in the Oil & Gas sector of the Nigerian economy. Uniterm is a Nigerian Company owned by Nigerians. The workforce is made up of professionals drawn across the world.

Uniterm is under the management of highly technical personnel with combined experience level of 150 years. Uniterm is a member of International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC) and the management staff are members of various professional bodies around the world. Uniterm has offices in Portharcourt and Lagos Nigeria, Houston in USA and Calgary in Canada. Uniterm has key Technical Partners in order to continue to use state-of-the-art technology to deliver services.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Account Payable Officer

Location: Rivers
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Overview

• The Accounts Payable Officer will be responsible for ensuring that all vendors invoices and/or internal expense requests are properly recorded, tracked, approved and paid as at when due.  
• The successful candidate will work closely with the Payable Accountant and ensure a mutually beneficial relationship exists between the company and the vendors. 
• Success in this role will be demonstrated through accurate and timely payment of invoices, ensuring appropriate statutory deductions are made from vendors invoices before payment and prompt/accurate record keeping of the financial transactions.

Objectives of this role

• Support the company in optimizing its working capital requirement and prompt recording of financial transactions in the systems.
• Strengthening and improved relationships with vendors and suppliers through timely payment of invoices
• Assist in streamlining and improving the accounts payable process
• Exercise integrity and confidentiality in financial reporting
• Compliance with national and local financial regulations and extant laws.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Assemble and review invoices and internal expenses to ensure complete documentation in accordance with the company’s invoice payment procedure
• Verify vendors invoices against approved purchase orders and ensure goods or services are received physically and on the system.
• Maintain appropriate records of all compliant vendors invoices and internal request received in the accounting system
• Maintain copies of vouchers, invoices and/or correspondence necessary for soft and hard filing in a chronological order.
• Preparation of payment schedules for all invoices and internal requests to be paid showing all the statutory deductions to be made in compliance with the extant laws.
• Schedule pay run and process outgoing payments in compliance with company policies and procedures for vendors invoice payment.
• Reconcile periodically (monthly & annually) the accounts payable by their respective sub ledger to ensure that all bills and payments made are accounted for and properly posted in the accounting system.
• Identify improvements areas to the accounts payable processes and engage the Payable accountant and by extension the Finance Leadership for possible implementation

Qualifications / Experience

•  Minimum of First degree in Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, Finance or any other related courses.
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in an Accounts Payable role 
• Accounting professional qualification ACA etc. (Added Advantage).

Skills / Attributes:

• Strong understanding of Finance systems and processes 
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills 
• Proactive, highly motivated and flexible 
• Highly organized and attention to detail 
• Strong data entry and analysis skills 
• Experienced with MS Office including Word, Excel and Outlook 
• Experience working with SAP (BYD).

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.