Financial Accountant Job in a Leading Accounting firm
Afterschool Center for Career Development - Our client, a leading Accounting firm leveraging technology to help Nigerian Business document and manage their finances.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Financial Accountant
Location: Lagos, Abuja, Cross River
Primary purpose
- The Financial Accountant would be expected to prepare, develop and analyse management accounting information for external clients.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Working with multiple clients, learning their businesses and optimizing their accounting workflow.
- Assist in the new client on-boarding process. This process may include:
- Set-up/clean-up their books,
- Assist with the set-up of various cloud-based accounting tools, and
- Set-up of tasks in our workflow management system and documentation of client specific processes.
- Manage, as applicable, processes related to A/P and A/R management, bookkeeping entries and closing the books on a monthly basis as well as prepare financial reporting and analysis. Mayalso include payroll and HR administration, and special projects as assigned
- Collaborate with the clients’ team and provide them with support and data to help make their business a success.
- Implement cutting-edge technology tools to provide each client with the best possible accounting solutions, business processes and workflows.
- Build trusted advisor relationship with client executives by gaining an intimate understanding of their business objectives.
- Support client’s evolving requirements by educating executives on Supporting Strategies deep and varied expertise in accounting and operational services.
- Proactively identify client issues, communicate and implement timely solutions.
- Provide exceptional accounting and operational support to our clients.
- Demonstrate thorough understanding of professional accounting and bookkeeping practices; keep abreast of latest developments in technologies to deliver outstanding quality service.
Minimum Required Skills & Experience
- A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or Related Field.
- 4+ years of accounting/bookkeeping experience.
- Strong experience working with QuickBooks and Microsoft Excel.
- Strong interpersonal skills: outgoing, positive, energetic person with a can-do attitude.
- Ability to deal with demanding clients with constantly shifting priorities.
- Ability to keep confidential highly sensitive company plans and data.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Financial management and financial reporting skills.
- Strong personal initiative.
- Highly organized and detail-oriented.
- Ability to work effectively with employees and senior managers of the company.
- Able to handle multiple priorities.
- Extremely tech savvy-capable of mastering new hardware and software quickly and easily.
- Consistently and accurately follow established policies and procedures.
- Work independently to complete assignments while knowing when to escalate issues and ask questions.
- Willingness to tackle unfamiliar tasks.
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Applications and CV's to:
[email protected] Using the position applied for as the subject of the mail.
Note: Due to a high volume of applicants, please understand that we are able to contact only those who meet the minimum qualifications.