Our Client, a security and safety engineering company, wants to fill the role of Accountant.
Job Description
1) Prepare, examine, and analyze accounting records, financial statements, and other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.
2) Compute taxes owed and prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting and other tax requirements.
3) Analyze business operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations, to project future revenues and expenses or to provide advice.
4) Report to management regarding the finances of establishment.
5) Establish tables of accounts, and assign entries to proper accounts.
6) Develop, maintain, and analyze budgets, preparing periodic reports that compare budgeted costs to actual costs.
7) Develop, implement, modify, and document recordkeeping and accounting systems, making use of current computer technology.
8) Prepare forms and manuals for accounting and bookkeeping personnel, and direct their work activities.
9) Survey operations to ascertain accounting needs and to recommend, develop, and maintain solutions to business and financial problems.
10) Work as Internal Revenue Service agents.
11) Advise management about issues such as resource utilization, tax strategies, and the assumptions underlying budget forecasts.
12) Support internal and external auditing function for businesses.
13) Advise management in areas such as compensation, employee health care benefits, the design of accounting and data processing systems, and long-range tax and estate plans.
14) Appraise, evaluate, and inventory real property and equipment, recording information such as the property's description, value, and location.
15) Summarizes current financial status by collecting information; preparing balance sheet, profit and loss statement, and other reports.
16) Administering payrolls and controlling income and expenditure.
Qualifications- University degree in a financial discipline or a professional qualification.
- Chartered Accountant status is required but not mandatory
- At least 5 years of overall professional experience in a reputable organization.
- Technology savvy with experience in the use of accounting and reporting software
- A successful track record in setting priorities; keen analytic, organization and problem solving skills which support and enable sound decision making
Skills Required
- University degree in a financial discipline or a professional qualification
- Chartered Accountant status
- At least 5 years of overall professional experience
- Experience in accounting and reporting software
- Strong analytic, organization, and problem-solving skills
What We Do
Fosad Consulting is an independent cross-industry HR and Engineering consulting firm. We partner with international and local companies seeking to accelerate the growth of their businesses by providing solutions that drive their businesses to succeed. Our solutions cater to multiple industries, including the oil and gas, financial services, telecommunications, transport, hospitality, healthcare and retail; and our projects are supported by professionals who have proven that they have what it takes to deliver against the odds to delight our clients. For over 20 years we have provided hands-on solutions to a number of global brands, hence we understand how they work, their expectations, as well as the need to constantly provide services that are top-notch and meet the required global standards. We are a leading provider of specialist Outsourcing solutions that extend to HR Services, Engineering, Expatriate Management protocols, Procurement, Learning & development interventions, Oil & Gas, and a host of services to some of the world’s most interesting brands. We are proud members of the Nigerian American Chamber of Commerce – a foremost organisation that seeks to bridge the gap between Nigerian businesses and their counterparts in the United States. We are also registered members of the Networking with the United States of America (NUSA) program; under the auspices of the US Commercial Service initiative in Nigeria. Part of our commitment to customer service means giving our clients honest, straightforward and, sometimes, even difficult advice. At Fosad we know you can’t afford to get it wrong and that’s why we do everything to make sure you get it right.
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