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Job Title: Finance Expert
Location of Job (Department and Division): Head Office, Abuja, (Tax, Audit & Risk Advisory Division)
Number of Subordinates: 3
Reports to: Associate Partner
Core Purpose Of The Job
- The Finance Expert is responsible for maintaining Corporate Financial, Accounting, Administrative and Personnel Services in order to meet organisational requirements and support general operations.
Key Performance Areas:
- Core, Essential Responsibilities/ Output Of Position (KPA’s)
Role and Task Complexities:
- Assist with preparation of the budget
- Implement financial policies and procedures
- Establish and maintain cash controls
- Establish, maintain and reconcile the general ledger
- Monitor cash reserves and investments
- Prepare and reconcile bank statements
- Establish and maintain supplier accounts
- Processes supplier invoices
- Maintain the purchase order system
- Ensure data is entered into the system
- Ensure transactions are properly recorded and entered into the computerized accounting system
- Prepare income statements
- Prepare balance sheets
- Prepare monthly financial statements
- Prepare quarterly reports and report on variances
- Assist with the annual audit
- Maintain the computerised accounting system
- Maintain financial files and records
- Negotiates with stakeholders to achieve the best overall results.
- Review clients’ projects and offer professional and technical consultation.
- Identifies profitable firms, prepares business proposals and delivers
- Identifies profitable firms, prepares business proposals and delivers
- Re-engineer and implement existing processes to reflect company’s objectives
- Proactively identify and eliminate financial inefficiencies within units and company at large industry standards.
Minimum Requirements
Education:
- A minimum of B.Sc. in any Financial related discipline
- An M.Sc. is an added advantage
Experience:
- At least 3 years cognate experience in Corporate Finance
Training:
- Must be a member of any Financial Professional body
Competences
Knowledge:
- Must have great knowledge of Public Sector Finance
- Must have good knowledge Management Consulting
Skills/physical Competencies:
- Supervisory skills
- Team building
- Accounting and bookkeeping skills
- Analytical and problem solving skills
- Decision making skills
- Effective verbal and listening communications skills
- Effective written communications skills
- Ability to communicate effectively in English
- Computer skills including the ability to operate computerised accounting, spreadsheet and word-processing programmes at a highly proficient level
- Stress management skills
- Time management skills
Behavioural Qualities:
- Interpersonal Skills
- Well detailed and Organised
- Very proactive.
Application Closing Date
25th August, 2014.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV's with the Job Title as the subject to:
[email protected]
Note: Candidate must be resident in Abuja and should be able to resume within short notice.