Senior Finance Accountant (Tax) at Starsight Energy

Starsight Energy provides premier clean on-grid and off-grid energy services to commercial and industrial clients in Africa. We make clean energy a smart bottom-line decision for clients by eliminating all up-front costs. Clients pay an all-inclusive monthly fee for end-to-end service. We’re big believers in technology and innovation. We invest in the latest smart technology and use our copious data sets to help clients reduce their energy consumption and cut costs.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Finance Accountant (Tax)

Location: Lagos

Duties and Responsibilities
Tax:

• Ensure tax computations follow established standards, develop and maintain robust and efficient tax planning.
• Find and implement opportunities for process improvement in company tax procedures.
• Maintain effective controls and procedures over all aspects of the company’s tax engagements with the relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure accurate and timely filing of federal and state tax returns including CIT, VAT, WHT, CGT, Transfer pricing and other business-related filings.
• Work with Tax Consultants and other required teams to ensure timely filing of business annual returns.
• Coordinate with various stakeholders on regular or special tax related projects including but not limited to FIRS and LIRS audit.
• Complies with all federal, state and local financial on legal requirements by studying existing and new legislation, enforcing adherence to requirements, and advising management on needed actions.

Treasury:

• Ensure the efficient management of company’s bank accounts.
• Maintain and manage all financial records, logs, spreadsheets, and registers as may be required to facilitate treasury deliverables.
• Ensure the company’s banking operations; seeing to it that all funds are appropriately banked - ensuring efficiency and returns.
• Ensure conformity of company’ bank accounts with IFR Standards. Reconciling of bank statements against the GLs and clearing accounts assigned.
• Check and verify cash transactions; investigate and propose possible resolution for any discrepancies.
• Responsible for interest and debt analysis, with provision of relevant information and reports
• Maintain loan schedules and manage revaluation process and adjustments.
• Take care of the cash management system of the company and their payment mechanism.
• Processing and managing Form M, CCI, custom duties and other relevant documents required and necessary for foreign transactions.

General:

• Attend to the statutory audit, year in year out, and resolve all possible queries.
• Provide inputs and advice to the company - this could include recommending changes that will maximize revenue and profit.
• Assist the team in intercompany reconciliation.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.

Application Closing Date
4th March, 2022.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: careers@starsightenergy.com using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.