Responsibilities

• Location: Ibadan, Oyo
  Employment Type: Full-time

  Job Summary

  • The Accounts Officer is responsible for coordinating the activities of the finance department; tracking payments to internal and external stakeholders, preparing budget forecasts, processing tax payments and returns.

  Job Description

  • Manage all accounting transactions.
  • Prepare budget forecasts.
  • Liaise with the human resource department to maintain an effective payroll administration system.
  • Publish financial statements and bookkeeping ledgers in time.
  • Handle monthly, quarterly, and annual closings.
  • Reconcile accounts payable and receivable.
  • Ensure timely bank payments.
  • Compute taxes and prepare tax returns.
  • Manage balance sheets and profit/loss statements.
  • Report on the company’s financial health and liquidity.
  • Audit financial transactions and documents.
  • Reinforce financial data confidentiality and conduct database backups when necessary.
  • Comply with financial policies and regulations.
  • Reconciling the company’s bank statements and bookkeeping ledgers.
  • Completing analysis of the employee expenditures.
  • Managing income and expenditure accounts.
  • Generating the company’s financial reports using income and expenditure data.
  • Keeping a check on the company’s finances based on financial status.
  • Ensure that taxes, pension and other statutory contributions/payments are properly filed and remitted on or before government mandated deadlines.
  • Initiating and managing financial and accounting software used by the company.
  • Review financial records of sales to ensure balanced accounts are maintained.