Receivables Accountant at Animal Care Services Konsult Nigeria Limited

We are Animal Care Service Konsult Nigeria Limited, an agro-allied company specializing in livestock farming, feed milling, technical laboratory services, and the marketing of animal health products. Committed to animal health and production, we strive to be the leading operator in Nigeria's livestock industry.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Receivables Accountant

Location: Ogere Remo, Ogun
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Responsibilities

• Prepare monthly management accounts and annual financial statements, provide key support in preparation of quarterly and yearly board packs.
• Recognition of transactional and non-transactional revenues, including critical analysis of customer contracts.
• Invoice large enterprise customers within 24-hours, ensure proper filing with all relevant supporting documents, reconcile customers’ accounts statement and provide same to customers, and address invoicing and payment inquiries.
• Provide monthly receivables report showing receivables, DSO (Day Sales Outstanding) and collections trends, and aging analysis per customer and product to divisional heads & CFO, sales team and key account managers while advising on credit quality of customers and cash revenue.
• Prepare monthly impairment assessment report for trade receivables and contract assets.
• Prepare weekly report on receivables and collections, develop and implement monthly cash flow forecast to ensure sufficient liquidity to meet business needs.
• Ensure efficient management of receivables through strategic engagements with customers and sales team, in compliance with applicable company policies thereby minimizing bad debts; Negotiate payoff deadlines or payment plans.
• Investigate and resolve discrepancies in payments of accounts; and a course of action to recover outstanding payments.
• Ensure that payments for all sales are received in a prompt/timely manner; Keep track of assigned accounts to identify outstanding debts
• Participate in interim and annual audits, and other due diligence exercises.
• Supervise and mentor junior colleagues.
• Assist in managing the month-end reporting process including preparing reconciliation schedules for ledger accounts.
• Assist with the development and delivery of financial policies, guidelines, and protocols to ensure compliance with regulations and best practices while developing new strategies to improve accounts receivables collections.

Requirements

• HND/BSC in Accounting & Finance or any other related discipline from accredited institution.
• A registered member of Institute of Chartered Accountants (Preferable)
• Must be between 25-35 years old.
• Open to both male and female candidates.

Competency & Skills:

• Understanding of moderately complex accounting concepts and General Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
• Computer applications (MS Office database management))
• Good communication skills (written & verbal)
• Planning and organizing  Strong negotiation and conflict resolution Skills
• Attention to details
• Multi-tasking and excellent time management skills
• Team management
• Relationship management
• Result oriented
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Sound financial judgment.

Personal Attributes:

• Must be customer focused
• Ability to deliver timely results
• Open to learning
• ntegrity & honesty
• Ability to build an effective team
• Have professional confidence

Application Closing Date
6th March, 2025.

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

Note: Only shortlisted candidate will be contacted for interview.