Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners - Our client, a Telecoms Company, is recruiting suitably qualified candidates to fill the position below:
Job Title: IT Project Accountant
Location: Lagos
Job Type: Contract
Duration: 6 months
Job Description
- This position is fully responsible for the project billing process; which includes being accountable for monitoring the progress of projects, investigating variances, approving expenses, and ensuring that project billings are issued to customers and payments collected
- Successful candidates will also be responsible for responding to client inquiries, verifying employee’s chargeable time; in accordance with the established accounting standards and billing policy.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Effectively communicate with Project Managers (PM) and Principals-in-Charge (PIC), regarding contract documents, change orders and other contract modifications, approvals, and any additional services-related to billing.
- Planning, Studying, and collecting data to determine costs of business activity such as raw material purchases, inventory and labor.
- Maintaining a Cost Accounting System
- Analysing changes in product design, raw materials, manufacturing methods or services provided, to determine effects on cost.
- Maintain the billing folders for all projects, with all the appropriate documents, including expenses, consultant invoices, and monthly invoices, in accordance with standard procedures.
- Report on project profitability to management, report to management on any opportunities for additional billings and also regarding the remaining funding available for projects.
- Investigate all project expenses not billed to customers
- Prepare final invoice package containing draft and final invoices for all billable projects, including all applicable backup for approval by the Accounting Supervisor.
- Mail final invoices, file consultant and client invoice copies in the billing folder.
- Assess and pursue opportunities for maximization of client billing; communicate with the Accounting Supervisor, as to your observations and actions taken.
- Work with the cash receipts team member to reconcile variances that occur in the application of cash.
- Generate and distribute bi-monthly receivables reports and monthly profitability reports.
- Review weekly time sheets, along with the accounting group.
- Analyse the P & L accounts monthly, as assigned by the Accounting Supervisor.
- Prepare balance sheet account reconcilements, as directed by the Accounting Supervisor.
- Recommend and implement agreed process improvements to the billing cycle.
- Prepare special project analyses for the PICs, PMs and others.
- Provide year-end support of auditor requirements, which may include research and reconcilement.
- Perform additional assignments, as directed by the Accounting Supervisor.
Educational Qualification
- A Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or other related fields.
Experience:
- A minimum of 6 years post NYSC experience as an IT Project Accountant.
Knowledge and Skill Requirements
- Must have a strong Cost systems background and have excellent analytical skills; sound understanding of accounting principles.
- Intermediate to advanced computer literacy, including experience in word processing, spreadsheets and accounting software.
- Strong MS Excel skills.
- Familiarity with Windows based operating systems and web based applications.
- A thorough knowledge of standard contract terms and how they are applied in the billing process.
- Ability to work well with others under deadline situations and respond to changes in priorities.
- Good written and verbal communication skills and strong organizational skills.
- Ability to work independently, take initiative, set priorities and see projects through to completion.
- Employ problem-solving skills and analysis, and report problems to the Accounting Services Manager, as necessary.
- Strong service orientation.
- Knowledge of the project structure in a client/consultant business environment.
Application Closing Date
4th September, 2018.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their updated CV's in MS Word format and Cover Letters to:
[email protected] and reference
[email protected] with "IT Project Accountant" as the subject of the e-mail.