Purpose of the role :

The role is to manage and ensure the accounts, finance, audits, trading compliance, tax activities of the business.

Duties & Responsibility :

accounting entries related to purchase, vendors Reconciliation, contractors, and vendor payments.
To oversee of landed cost sheet for the commodities, material cost report, cost Audit.
Implement and rollout ERP for all the business units.
Budgeting and projection
Ppreparation of Marginal costing, production cost of products and Variance analysis.
To maintain cost records, product wise consumption of raw material.
To do Stock Flow Analysis, (Mix, Volume, Price, quantity)
To prepare the P&L, Balance Sheet of the Company and other business units.
To monitor fund flow, distribution, and allocation of funds.
To do liaison with banks for OD/CC/Business Loans; etc.
To Prepare monthly profit and loss statement, EBITDA & Analysis of Monthly results
To validate statutory liabilities such as VAT, CIT, NSITF, Pension, WHT, ITF, Pension and Payee deduction.
To preparation of financial statements of group companies as per IFRS & resolving audit queries
To do weekly & quarterly cash flow (Naira/USD), review TAT/SLA, implementation of new process/automation, financial risk mgt, weekly activity report, business with vendor report, employee wise volume report, reconciliation reports.
To lead the team of accounts payable, accounts receivables and prepare a consolidated MIS.
To develop second level to maintain hassle-free operations of the department and organization.

Required Skills :

Analytical Skill
Process adherence
Collaborative Influencing skill
Effective Communication
Decision Making

Company Profile :

Our client, based in Lagos Nigeria is a global trading company with an active presence in Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia, specialized in supplying Nigeria and West African clients with globally sourced products and services that are critical to laying the foundations for a modern economy. They deal in Steel ,Chemicals, Grains, Foodstuffs (salt, sugar, rice etc.) and Animal feed to its various clients on request, agricultural inputs from fertilizers to tractors and Agriculture -Contract farming. The company has an extensive partnership network to ensure accurate, on-time and cost effective delivery. A strong growth outlook for the area will result in substantial expansion in years to come.

Accountant/Accounts Manager -Trading Co. in Nigeria