Current Jobs for an Accountant in Lagos at Bradfield Consulting
Employment Nigeria
01-Jan-1970
NIGERIA , NIGERIA ,
Bradfield consulting is a professional service firm created to provide human resource solutions for organizations of any size. Our goal is to help our esteemed clients eliminate issues bordering on having incompatible or inexpert employees.
Our partnership begins from attracting the right employees, settling them well at work and ensuring that they are equipped to deliver on your goals. Our culture of seamless collaboration enables us to go well beyond recruitment; it facilitates and influences business relationships toward value creation. This collaborative culture of problem-solving enables us to add greater value to our clients than many others.
Bradfield Consulting is recruiting to fill the position of:
Job Title: Accountant
Report To: management regarding the finances of establishment
Location: Lagos
Job Purpose:
The Accountant will deal with monthly general ledger, balance sheet an income statement analysis and income statement presentation.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
- Prepare, examine, and analyze accounting records, financial statements, and other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.
- Develop, maintain, and analyze budgets, preparing periodic reports that compare budgeted costs to actual costs
- Responsible for preparing general ledger entries and reconciliations or month-end closing to close books in a timely manner
- Assist in documentation and monitoring of internal controls
- Develop, implement, modify, and document recordkeeping and accounting systems, making use of current computer technology
- Appraise, evaluate, and inventory real property and equipment, recording information such as the property's description, value, and location.
- Compute taxes owed and prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting and other tax requirements
- Analyze business operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations, to project future revenues and expenses or to provide advice.
- Establish tables of accounts, and assign entries to proper accounts.
Competency And Technical Skill Requirements
- Ability to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
- The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers.
- The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, mathematical operations).
- Ability to work cooperatively and collaboratively with all levels of employees, management and external agencies to maximize performance, creativity, problem solving and results.
- Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
- Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
Analytical skills
- Supervisory management skills
- Vast in excel and Microsoft word detailed oriented and organised at work
Education:
B.SC/HND in Accounting or related course/ICAN will be an added advantage
Experience Required:
- Applicants must have at least 3 years experience in management and financial systems and budgets, financial reporting, financial data analysis taxation and providing financial advice.
- Strong knowledge of cost accounting is also important
Personal Qualities
- Motivational but also challenging
- Ability to work well under pressure
- Pro-active and self motivated with the ability to work flexibly on your own initiative and under pressure;
- Strong organisation skills and ability to meet deadlines;
- Knowledge of Current employment legislation and Human Resources best practices
- Keen intellect and strong analytical skills with the ability to identify and pursue solutions swiftly
- An effective and authentic communicator, both orally and with the written word Strong ability to influence others
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and communication skills;
How to Apply
Interested candidates should
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Application Deadline 19th August, 2014
Sorry the application deadline for this job has elapsed
