Auditor at a Real Estate Firm - Smart Partners Consulting Limited (SPCL)

Smart Partners Consulting Limited (SPCL) - Our client in the Real Estate sector is recruiting suitable candidates to fill the position below:

Job Title: Auditor

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Summary

• We are urgently in need of an Auditor who will be responsible for keeping the employer accountable regarding internal company procedures and industry rules.
• The Auditor’s duties include studying accounting records, preparing compliance reports and supervising company workflows.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate financial documents for accuracy and compliance with federal regulations
• Identify the financial risk of the organization and offer recommendations to reduce risk.
• Identify accounting and financial record-keeping processes that can be improved
• Determine ways to cut costs and improve profitability
• Assess the efficiency and productivity of internal staff and make recommendations for improvement
• Present findings to upper management in the form of reports and presentations
• To ensure good management of scarce resources
• To ensure that all accounts books are prepared in accordance with accounting principles and standards
• To ensure sound and efficient control systems.
• Liaising with the Audit Committee on internal/systems audits.
• Reports likely risks inherent in such weaknesses to the systems
• Reports lose of all kinds to the management
• Periodic checking of aged debtors’ analyses report with debtors control accounts to ensure they reconciled
• Periodic checking of aged creditors analyses report with creditors control accounts to ensure they reconciled
• Cross-checking to ensure that sales (Customers) invoices in General Ledgers reconciled with products invoices postings in sales department always
• Cross-checking and ensuring that all purchases are duly posted into the appropriate accounts by Accounts dept.
• Cross-checking and ensuring that all assets are properly entered into the assets register by carrying out physical identifications of all assets with computer printouts periodically; monthly reconciliation of assets.
• Periodic checking of the prepayment and accrual schedules in the General Ledgers
• Quarterly and Year-end stock takings with the store personnel
• Checks periodically all the postings in the General Ledges to ensure accuracy in postings and proper classifications in view of accounting principles
• Verification of credit sales and all purchases with material value in the General Ledgers regularly
• Assists in handling some accounting jobs when the need arises.
• Works hand-in-hand with the external auditors during the annual audit of financial year-end.
• Works with the Audit Committee on systems audit issues when the need arises
• Carries out internal audits to identify any weaknesses or loopholes in the systems and make reports as well as recommend corrective measures to the management
• Monitoring all credit sales to ensure compliance with company’s policies on credit facilities
• Monitoring staff indebtedness to the company to ascertain compliance in repayments.
• Monitoring cash advances to staff and makes calls for their retirements
• Any other duties assigned.

Requirements

• Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or any related Social Science Courses.
• Minimum of 1 year of relevant experience on the job
• Necessary certificates and professional qualifications and master Degrees shall be added advantage
• Strong communication skills to work with Accountants and other co-workers
• Excellent attention to detail to review large amounts of data and numbers
• Exceptional mathematical skills to verify entries
• Good critical-thinking skills to gather all of the available data and make informed decisions
• Excellent research skills to find all related information needed
• Proficiency in accounting software and spreadsheets

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.