Senior Accountant at Vantegral Consulting

Vantegral Consulting solely aims to offer value to clients and businesses. With an array of services ranging from recruitment outsourcing, restructuring, capability development, management advisory, and growth strategy, we are about creating and implementing solutions.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Accountant

Location: Yaba, Lagos

Job Description
Effective Support to the finance function:

Assisting in the preparation of management account on or before 10 working day of every month.
Assist in preparation of financial statements
Assist in the preparation of the annual budget for the Company.
Ensure all postings initiated into the Sage 50 Accounting Software have records that are traceable and retrievable
Assist in overseeing and computation of payroll for all the personnel with the company.
Ensure all payments are disbursed at the appreciate time immediately after approval of CEO.
Providing accurate analysis to aid better decision making.
Providing support to any other project related assignments as required by the Operational Director and CEO.
Providing finance department input for weekly management report
Ensure accurate posting into the correct general ledger accounts with proper and sufficient description.

Fixed asset management:

Maintain an updated FA register outside the Sage 50 and update monthly FA schedule
Reconcile financial Information on FA register (Cost, Deprecation, Accumulated depreciation and NBV) to the general ledger on the Sage 50.
Monthly depreciation run for all fixed asset on the Sage 50
Ensure all additions, disposals and impaired assets are updated in Sage 50
Ensure all assets are tagged and maintain numbering database

Regulatory Compliance:

Provision of schedules during tax audit (FIRS and LIRS)
Provision of documentations requested by tax authorities
Filing of annual tax returns- CIT & EDT, PAYE etc
Preparation of schedules for WHT, VAT, PAYE, and other taxes.
Compile database of contacts in tax units of the FIRS and relevant state tax offices
Filing of VAT and WHT returns on or before 21st of every month on Tax Pro Max

Financial Control and Reporting:

Monitoring of the monthly financial close checklist.
Preparation of all balance sheet, profit or loss and cashflow schedules for statutory audit purpose
Liaison with external auditors on all their queries and reviews
Ensure all foreign balances are translated at the prevailing closing rates every month
Ensure all project related costs are recorded accurately within the project entity
Ensure all accruals are booked and monitored monthly before workday 7 of the new month.

Account reconciliation:

Monthly reconciliation of interest payables
Monthly reconciliation of loan schedule and loan balances
Ensure all payables schedules (foreign and local) agree to the GL
Monthly reconciliation of bank statement analysis across all the banks
Daily, weekly and monthly reconciliation of receivables and payables invoices.

Budgetary control and variance analysis:

Ensure that all expenditure or request for payment are budgeted for
Support the Management Accountant in the preparation of the monthly departmental performance review
Support the Operational Director & Management Accountant In the monthly review of project cost vis-à-vis the P/L
Monthly track of actual project-related cost vs project P&L.
Ensure that actual cost (s) are posted into the right account where it was budgeted for and posted on Sage 50 Accounting Software

Banking Relationships: