Accountant at First Ideologies Limited

First Ideologies Limited (FIL) is a business solution firm born out of passion to see existing businesses grow and new ones springing up. Our core speciality is to partner with businesses of every kind and size by providing timely business advisory services and human capital development solutions.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Accountant

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Department: Accounts/Finance

Job Summary

• The job holder has the responsibility to ensure availability of accurate accounting information for management’s decision-making at all time. He will assist in maintaining the books of accounts and generate necessary financial report on regular basis.

Summary of Key Responsibilities

• Keep up to date records of all accounting transactions via Excel or company’s accounting software
• Assists the Finance Operations manager in the preparation of quarterly/mid-year/annual account and budgets.
• Computation of VAT, PAYE, Withholding Tax, and other statutory payments.
• Prepare journal entries and relevant accounting work papers.
• Manage and reconcile office petty cash or imprest.
• Keep all relevant accounting documents and files for easy retrieval.
• Process employee’s statutory deductions i.e PAYE and Pension, etc and remit promptly to the LIRS and PFA’s respectively.
• Prepare audit schedule for external and internal auditor.
• Reconcile and update fixed assets register.
• Carry out annual physical verification of fixed assets.
• Prepare every period-end (Monthly Management) reports .
• Carry out proper bank statement review/reconciliation in line with agreed terms.
• Prepare daily, weekly and monthly inflow and outflow reports.
• Record all project/Product delivery transactions and keep all relevant records for quick retrieval and reconcilliations whenever the need arises.
• Invoice reconciliation with customers/ vendors
• Filings of monthly VAT and annual LIRS remittances
• Process payment to contractors and vendors - via electronic funds transfer
• Any other duties that will be assigned by the management from time to time.

Working Relationship/Contacts:

• Internal: All departments
• External: Clients, contractors/ vendors, government agencies, professional Institutions etc.

Key Performance Indictaors:

• Achievement of up to date accounting information on the company’s accounting package.
• Achievement of regular or quarterly financial report to the management.
• Timeliness and accuracy of filing and retrievals of accounting files/records.
• Timely processing of all banking transaction.
• Timely reconciliations of client’s invoices.
• Achievement of prompt remittance of statutory deduction payment on or before 10th of every month.
• Achievement of monthly bank reconciliation and cash flow report before 5th of every month.
• Achievement of error free accounting report and information for management’s decision making.

Requirements

• First Degree (HND / B.Sc.) in Accounting
• Candidate must be chartered with relevant body
• Minimum of five years working experience

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Applications to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail

Application Deadline  5th February, 2022.