Head of Accounts at Goldline Nigeria Limited

Goldline Nigeria Limited is a reputable manufacturing and distribution company that specializes in high-quality building and finishing materials for the construction industry. With over 20 years of experience, we have established a strong reputation for exceptional customer service and our dedication to providing the best products and services. Our range of exclusive products, including steel and wooden doors, architectural ironmongery, Italian-style furniture, and stainless metal railings, are designed to meet the specific needs of our customers in terms of security, durability, and aesthetics. We also offer a wide selection of sanitary wares, tiles, and wall panels. We are committed to delivering excellence, quality, and peace of mind to our clients.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Head of Accounts

Location: Ago Palace, Okota, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• We are currently searching for a qualified accountant with the much needed experience in taxation, budgeting and financial management.

Responsibilities
He/she will be expected to perform the following responsibilities:

• Ensure that the company complies with highest professional accounting principles, conventions and practise for all its financial activities and transactions.
• Enforce compliance with all Goldline accounting policies and expected professional standards of accountability, transparency and speed in the company’s accounting and financial management.
• Guarantee the completeness, correctness, relevance, accessibility, timeliness, presentation and efficient preparations of the company’s accounting reports for managerial use and decision making.
• Ensure through focused, consistent and effective oversight that the internal control unit of the department does relentless and meticulous vouching and verification of all entries and postings into the company’s ERP on a real time basis and that any errors and variations are investigated, sanctioned (where necessary) and corrections made immediately.
• Confirm payments for all sales and deposits and immediately raise relevant documents/payment receipts.
• Customers’ debts management:
  • Produce weekly debtors’ reports.
  • Make report available to head of sales & marketing and managing director.
  • Lead and monitor debts recovery efforts.
  • Where necessary, embark on direct customers’ debts recovery.
  • Manage company’s account payable with a high sense of responsibility for the company’s reputation by planning payment commitments efficiently in a manner that allows the company to meet its obligations promptly and in an orderly manner.
• Control cash flows:
  • Prepare periodic cash flow plans of the company. Monthly, quarterly and yearly cash inflows and outflows.
  • Produce actual cash flow statements, analyses and interpretations to management.
  • Compute, prepare and ensure timely remittances of all necessary taxes, pensions and other relevant statutory payments.
  • Manage workers’ loans, advances and IOUs.
  • Process and settle insurance premiums, utility bills, and other administrative bills.
• Ensure that all accounting transactions of the company anywhere is accurately posted into the company’s ERP system speedily and on a real time basis.
• Reconcile all cash accounts, bank accounts, debtor accounts, creditor accounts, journals and ledger accounts that require reconciliations on a daily basis.
• Control and coordinate all petty cash accounts of the company.
• Ensure correctness of ledger balances in the trial balance; and correct classifications of posted transactions into appropriate accounting heads.
• Fixed assets management:
  • Prepare, maintain and update fixed assets schedule.
  • Compute and post depreciation, amortizations, depletion, impairments, disposals, revaluations, provisions, loses, etc.
  • Maintain fixed assets replacement analysis plan.
  • Make a monthly report on fixed assets to the Managing Director.
• Tax management:
  • Compute, prepare, files and settle all federal, state and local government taxes.
  • Liaise with all tax agencies, consultants, and government officials to resolve any tax related matters.
  • Maintain perpetual tax record and document history.
• Prepare weekly, monthly, quarterly, biyearly and yearly financial reports. These include statement of comprehensive income, income statements, financial positions, cash flow statements; notes to the accounts, financial analyses and interpretations.
• Monitoring and resolution of suspense accounts, clearing accounts, settlement accounts, sundry accounts and Inter-branch accounts.
• Provide relevant and timely financial accounting intelligence to management for planning and decision making.
• Ensure that confidential financial accounting information are tightly contained and not accessed by unauthorised bodies.
• Take custody of important financial accounting documents and original documents relating to taxes, insurances, bank loans & overdrafts, debtors’ settlement agreements, liability commitments, investments, and other forms of financial agreements are safely kept.
• Issue job descriptions to subordinates whose jobs are not explicitly described in the personnel policy and manage and supervise them for high productivity. Delegate duties as necessary under close supervision to continually develop subordinates. Submit the supplementary job descriptions to the head of human resources for records while retaining final responsibility for the quality of job done.
• Appraise, query and make recommendations about subordinates to head of human resources, managing director and unit/department heads, as necessary.
• Lead in the development of a robust and a relentlessly consistent and accurate stock integrity and auditing system for the company by direct participation, process development, planning, decisive and consistent over sight of the internal control unit.
• Budget management: 
  • Develop budget templates for all departments’ and branches.
  • Initiates budgeting processes by receiving departmental budgets (revenues and expenses) from respective heads of departments.
  • Review, reconcile and consolidate submitted budget proposals with departmental heads.
  • Call budget defence meetings. 
  • Prepare and disseminates approved budgets.
  • Monitor budget performances.
  • Present budgets analyses and interpretations at monthly performance review (MPR).
• Carryout any other job that the managing director may assign.

Qualifications

• Must be an HND or B.Sc. holder in Accountancy (other science or social sciences are acceptable if combined with professional or academic qualifications in accountancy).
• Must have ACA, ACCA, or other related professional qualifications in accountancy.
• Shall possess minimum of 5 years post graduate experience.
• Shall possess strong analytical and critical mind.
• Shall be able to interpret financial data.
• Shall have good computational and data presentation skills.
• Shall have vast computer knowledge with appreciable accounting packages knowledge.
• Shall be conversant with latest changes that affect the company’s taxation laws, international financial reporting standards, and other financial accounting matters.
• Must possess strong conceptual intelligence to perceive and conceive corporate goals.
• Shall have the ability to work without supervision.
• Shall possess very sound budgetary management skill.
• Shall have very good interpersonal skill.
• Shall have an excellent sense of judgment.
• Shall have impeccable character, punctuality, integrity, contentment, objectivity and impartiality.
• Shall be teachable and ever willing to lend personal knowledge to others.
• Shall possess good report and memo writing skills.
• Must live in and around Ago Palace Way or Okota, Isolo, Lagos.

Salary
N200,000 Monthly.

Application Closing Date
10th July, 2025.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Cover Letter to: goldlinehhr@gmail.com using the Job Title (HEAD OF ACCOUNTS) as the subject of the mail.

Note: All selections will be made based on experience and proximity.