Inventory Accountant at Novella Africa Limited

Novella Africa Limited is a leading career marketplace for business and tech professionals in Nigeria. Using state-of-art technologies, it identifies the best-in-class professionals and matches them to the right jobs. Novella helps businesses achieve optimal performance by attracting and training candidates with the right skills and competencies to fill the human resources gaps in the organization.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Inventory Accountant

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full time

Responsibilities

• Assist in establishing and implementing inventory policies and procedures.
• Work closely with Procurement, Store, and Field Management to ensure proper inventory control and accounting practices.
• Physical verification and control of weekly and Monthly counts of Warehouse inventory of Raw, Packing Materials, Spares, and Consumables, and highlight the variances to the management.
• Perform weekly and monthly physical assets and tools counts at all sites and report variances to the management.
• Prepare and distribute daily, weekly, monthly, and ad-hoc inventory levels and consumption reports to all the relevant departments.
• Providing explanations to both internal and external auditors on inventory-related queries.
• Processing Vendor's invoices while ensuring 3-way check of PO, GRN, and Invoice.
• Prepare Inventory Sub Ledger and General Ledger Reconciliation Report, Warehouse/ Spares and Consumables Ageing report.
• Report shortfalls and surplus inventory weekly and monthly for replenishment.
• Support the Company budgeting process with Account Analysis.
• Assist other functional units within the Finance team in carrying out jobs as and when required by Management.

Requirements

• First Degree in a relevant field (Accounting / Business Management)
• Minimum of 4 years of relevant work experience in a manufacturing company
• Strong understanding and proficient use of SAP
• Proven skills and competencies in managing raw materials, production, and output accounting
• Knowledge of effective internal processes is an added advantage.
• Sound understanding of regulatory requirements
• Excellent numerical and analytical skills
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Excel
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills

Must have:

• SAP Experience
• Minimum of 4 years of experience managing inventory
• Experience in manufacturing (FMCG).

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.