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Job Title: Financial Accountant
Company: IROKO
Location:
IROKO is Africa’s leading entertainment technology company. Launched in 2010, by Jason Njoku and Bastian Gotter, it is one of the most talked about African internet start-ups, thanks to its flagship Nollywood movie platform iROKOtv. Head quartered in Lagos, Nigeria, the company has pioneered Video-On-Demand for Nollywood content (Nigerian movies) and has aggregated the world’s largest online catalogue of African content, totaling 10,000+ hours.
Job Description
- Monitoring and maintaining entries in the accounting systems for up to 6 entities across Africa. Ad-hoc assistance will be required across the remaining group companies
- Monitoring daily bank balances and preparation of the weekly cash balance summary
- Review of the bank reconciliations across the African entities
- Preparation of monthly cash movement analysis
- Review of the PL to ensure appropriate costs and revenues have been recognised in the period
- Reconciliation of intercompany transactions and balances
- Assistance with payment uploads and monitoring, as required
- Raising sales invoices as required
- Monthly review of the trade receivables and payables to ensure all invoices recorded on the system are still valid
- Forming excellent working relationships with colleagues across the international organisation
- Preparing audit schedules, assisting with audit queries and other year-end work
- Liaising with the Tax Consultant for withholding tax and VAT review & remittance
- Liaising with the other external stakeholders such as bank officers, Auditors, consultants etc in applicable entities as the need arises
- Ensuring deadlines for tax returns and filings are met
- Ad-hoc petty cash review to ensure assistant financial accountants reconciliations are accurate
- Balance sheet reconciliation and review
- Payroll review, ensuring accuracy of payroll related schedules. Also ensuring proper recognition and payment of statutory deductions to proper authorities.
- Monitoring of loans and advances to ensure funds are recovered where appropriate
- Supervision of the assistant financial accountant and remotely supporting the accounts staff in the other African entities
- Any other administrative duties delegated by the Financial Controller
Person Specification
Educational Qualification:
- The ideal candidate will be ACCA qualified (or equivalent professional qualification) with at least 3 years post qualified experience
- It is desirable but not essential that the candidate has a bachelor’s degree in finance or business
Professional Experience:
- At least 10 years’ experience in Finance or other related/relevant roles
- At least 3 years post qualified experience is required for this role
Key Competencies:
- Intermediate excel skills (v-lookups, pivot tables, sumifs)
- Numerial accuracy
- Business Savvy
- Strong planning and organisational skills
- Relationship Management
- Analytical Thinking
- Technical and Functional Expertise
- Understanding the Business
- Achieving Results
- Serving the internal stakeholders
- Teamwork
- Interpersonal and Communication Skills
METHOD OF APPLICATION
ALL Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as subject of the email and successfull candidates will be contacted.
To apply for this job email your details to hr@irokopartners.com