Senior Financial Accountant - Tax / Treasury Expert at an Energy Efficiency Company - the Impeccable Skills Company

The Impeccable Skills Company - Our client, an Energy Efficiency Company is recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Financial Accountant - Tax / Treasury Expert

Job Code: 017 / LOS - IKOYI / SS / 21
Location: Ikoyi, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Details

• Our client an Energy Efficiency Company seeks to recruit a Senior Financial Accountant who will be a Team lead within the finance functionwith accounting and leadership skills to identify opportunities for process improvement and potential areas of risk.
• He/she will ensure compliance with state, federal and international tax law through systems and system controls that are designed to ensure accurate and timely reporting.
• He/she will monitor current and impending changes to tax regulations and make the appropriate updates to policies, processes, and strategies for compliance purposes.

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.

Qualifications

• Interested candidates should possess a Bachelor's Degree
• Minimum of 5 years experience in Tax(emphasis on Tax) and Treasury operations.
• Professional accounting qualifications from ACCA, ICAN, CIMA, etc
• Good overall knowledge of accounting operations and administration.
• Experience in working with the auditors.

Competencies:

• Strong work ethics and time management skills.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral.
• Excellent team player with the ability to work with a team to meet the corporate objectives of the organisation.
• A confident professional who can work using their own initiative, implanting ideas to reduce cost and improve efficiency.
• Proficiency in the use of Ms Office tools such as Excel, PowerPoint etc.
• Strong experience with a variety of tax operations and ability to drive process improvements.
• Strong accounting, analytical, and research skills. Excellent understanding of the technical aspects of accounting.
• Experience in dealing with all business statutory tax returns reporting and treasury operations.
• The ability to liaise with internal and external stakeholders locally and globally.
• The ability to create detailed reports, and presentations to C-level executives.

KPIs:

• Timely and accurate tax returns.
• Timely and clean closure of tax audits.
• Effective Tax rate- Minimizing audit adjustment that directly impact tax.
• Cash taxes- Total taxes paid versus forecast provided.
• Adequate support to ensure timely delivery of annual audit.

Application Closing Date
22nd June, 2021.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their Application to: [email protected] Kindly quote the Job Reference code as your application subject and indicate your location e.g., 017/LOS-IKOYI/SS/21 - YABA (if you reside in yaba) / Lagos.

Note: Only qualified candidates will be shortlisted.