Job Vacancy for Accountant in a Leading Law Firm

Pivotage Consulting – Our client, a leading Law firm is currently seeking to grow its team by hiring an experienced candidate to join their team:

Job Title: Accountant

Job ref.: GO/5032/AT
Location: Lagos State, Nigeria.
Type: Full Time
Career: Senior Level Expert
Reports to: MD.

Job Requirements

• Must have a Bachelor’s degree in any Accounting discipline or related field.
• Must possess ACA/ACCA certification (added advantage)
• Must be ICAN certified.
• Must have 4-6 years’ cognate working experience.
• Work experience with a law firm (added advantage)
• Must have good knowledge of any accounting package.
• Must be able to prepare monthly financial accounts, interpret financial statements and carry out bank reconciliations.
• Must have good knowledge of statutory reporting standards.
• Must have an understanding of the operation & application of the Nigerian tax and Pension laws.
• Must have the experience to recovery excess bank charges as an added advantage.
• Must have good knowledge of Peachtree, SAGE and QuickBooks.
• Must have good communication skill both oral and good report writing skills.

Job Competencies:

• Must have a good business acumen.
• Must have a good Communication and Presentation Skill.
• Must be ethical and a best practice professional.
• Must be a creative thinker.
• Must have an excellent organizational and time management skill
• Must have an industry-wide exposure
• Must have a working knowledge of Excel & PowerPoint MS Office

Job Responsibilities

• Managing the team to ensure compliance with existing accounting policies and standard accounting practices in the company’s policies.
• Pursuing and recovering excess bank charges accrued to the business.
• Ensuring production and review of monthly management accounts and associated reconciliations within the specified monthly deadlines.
• Ensuring timely and accurate recording of the company’s financial transactions.
• Liaising with the company bankers on a regular basis.
• Ensuring accurate maintenance of the company’s general ledgers
• Handling all tax fillings of the company.
• Liaising with external auditors and submitting request documents during audit.
• Maintaining fixed assets register and reconcile to general ledger control account
• Facilitating debt collection for the company main debtors
• Coordinating bank reconciliation
• Maintaining creditors records for the company
• Processing payroll for the employees.
• Processing invoices in accounting system.
• Processing payment vouchers.
• Obtaining payment Voucher approval.
• Processing cheques or payment instructions.
• Issuing cheques to suppliers.
• Reconciling supplier statements.
• Preparing payment schedules.
• Processing invoices to customers’ suppliers and other clients.
• Matching invoices to approved PO or requests as applicable.
• Preparing and submit statutory returns.

Other Duties:

• Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Deadline: 24th November, 2019.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV only (MS Word format) to: recruitment@pivotageconsulting.com using the role “Accountant” as the subject of their Application.