Farm Accountant at Aqua Harvest Limited

Aqua Harvest Limited. (“AH”) is a startup aquaculture project with annual production capacity of 1,000 tons of Catfish (African Clarias, Heteroclarias and Claresse). Standing on approximately 4 acres of land area in Eredo Local Government Area of Lagos, AH is equipped with state of the art flow through system, a staff canteen and staff residential apartment amongst other facilities.

AH seeks to fill the vacant position:

Job Title: Farm Accountant (‘FA’)

Ref No: AKFA 002

Job Description
Reporting to the Project Manager, the Farm Accountant will be responsible for the accounting and record keeping of all monetary transactions of the farm. The FA’s main role includes:

• Provide accurate, timely and complete monthly farm accounting records, including depreciation, payroll, sales, cost accounting, balance sheets, and full-service accounts;
• Input and log farm accounting data, reports, and other necessary information to the farm accounting system;
• Establish new customers on farm accounting; close out year-end accounts; calculate and process farm accounting invoices;
• Review, balance, key in and print monthly farm accounting reports; close out year-end accounts;
• Assemble, review, and mail processed farm accounting reports to users:
• Request, obtain, input, and reconcile financial information from other non-farm accounting customers for financial service purposes;
• Provide update on farm accounting delinquencies;
• Develop a proper internal control process for cash receipt, deposit and management;

Requirements

• Bachelor degree (Minimum of Second Class Lower Division) in Accounting or a related business field with five or more years of related experience;
• Professional Qualification (ACA, ACCA, CPA) will be an added advantage;
• Agriculture environment experience is highly desirable
• Strong interpersonal, presentation, sales, analytical, time management and organizational skills as well as the ability to use various computer applications (Quick books);
• Must be able to confidently and succinctly communicate value added” business and financial concepts to investors and Management.

Application Closing Date
3rd September, 2013

Method of Application
Interested candidates should please forward their application quoting the job number as reference and copy of their current resume to careers@sappcap.com.

Shortlisted candidates will be contacted one week after the deadline.