Accountant at Quality Foods Africa

Quality Foods Africa is building quality fast and nutritious food businesses, with a pan African ambition. Our business model is based on bringing leading international quick service brands to Africa and ensuring their commercial success, a strategy that unites customers, shareholders, franchisors and our staff.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Accountant

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• You will be required to focus on computing and recording day-to-day financial calculations, ensuring compliance with accounting regulations, preparing taxes and checking financial records for errors.
• You are required to think analytically and mathematically, stay organized, communicate clearly and have an attention to detail.
• Also you are Responsible for analysing trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments and obligations incurred to predict future revenues and expenses.

Responsibilities

• Preparing accounts and tax returns 
• Monitoring spending and budgets and Preparing budget forecasts
• Auditing and analysing financial performance
• Financial forecasting and risk analysis
• Advising on how to reduce costs and increase profits 
• Compiling and presenting financial and budget reports 
• Ensure that financial statements and records comply with laws and regulations
• Keeping account books and systems up to date. 
• Publish financial statements in time 
• Handle monthly, quarterly and annual closings
• Reconcile accounts payable and receivable 
• Ensure timely bank payments
• Compute taxes and prepare tax returns 
• Manage balance sheets and profit/loss statements
• Report on the company’s financial health and liquidity
• Audit financial transactions and documents 
• Reinforce financial data confidentiality and conduct database backups when necessary
• Prepare asset, liability and capital account entries by compiling and analysing account information 
• Produce error-free accounting reports and present their results.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.