Accountant at a Leading Law Firm - Pivotage Consulting

Recruiter
Pivotage Consulting
Location
Lagos, NG
Salary
Competitive salary
Posted
13 Nov 2020
Closes
12 Dec 2020
Ref
7591e131a88a
Job role
Accountant
Sector
Legal
Experience level
Qualified accountant
Job Details

Job Title: Accountant

Job ref.: GO/5032/AT

Location: Lagos State, Nigeria.

Type: Full Time

Career: Senior Level Expert

Reports to: MD.


Job Responsibilities
  • Managing the team to ensure compliance with existing accounting policies and standard accounting practices in the company's policies.
  • Pursuing and recovering excess bank charges accrued to the business.
  • Ensuring production and review of monthly management accounts and associated reconciliations within the specified monthly deadlines.
  • Ensuring timely and accurate recording of the company's financial transactions.
  • Liaising with the company bankers on a regular basis.
  • Ensuring accurate maintenance of the company's general ledgers
  • Handling all tax fillings of the company.
  • Liaising with external auditors and submitting request documents during audit.
  • Maintaining fixed assets register and reconcile to general ledger control account
  • Facilitating debt collection for the company main debtors
  • Coordinating bank reconciliation
  • Maintaining creditors records for the company
  • Processing payroll for the employees.
  • Processing invoices in accounting system.
  • Processing payment vouchers.
  • Obtaining payment Voucher approval.
  • Processing cheques or payment instructions.
  • Issuing cheques to suppliers.
  • Reconciling supplier statements.
  • Preparing payment schedules.
  • Processing invoices to customers' suppliers and other clients.
  • Matching invoices to approved PO or requests as applicable.
  • Preparing and submit statutory returns.

    • Other Duties:
  • Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

    • Job Requirements
  • Must have a Bachelor's degree in any Accounting discipline or related field.
  • Must possess ACA/ACCA certification (added advantage)
  • Must be ICAN certified.
  • Must have 4-6 years' cognate working experience.
  • Work experience with a law firm (added advantage)
  • Must have good knowledge of any accounting package.
  • Must be able to prepare monthly financial accounts, interpret financial statements and carry out bank reconciliations.
  • Must have good knowledge of statutory reporting standards.
  • Must have an understanding of the operation & application of the Nigerian tax and Pension laws.
  • Must have the experience to recovery excess bank charges as an added advantage.
  • Must have good knowledge of Peachtree, SAGE and QuickBooks.
  • Must have good communication skill both oral and good report writing skills.

    • Job Competencies:
  • Must have a good business acumen.
  • Must have a good Communication and Presentation Skill.
  • Must be ethical and a best practice professional.
  • Must be a creative thinker.
  • Must have an excellent organizational and time management skill
  • Must have an industry-wide exposure
  • Must have a working knowledge of Excel & PowerPoint MS Office