Recruitment at Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA)
Employment Nigeria
12-Jul-2016
NIGERIA ,
Accounting
Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA) is an independent not-for-profit, self regulatory and self governing organization founded on March 23, 2005 as a stakeholder-led organization, charged with the responsibility of managing the "ng" country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) name space in the public interest of Nigeria and global internet community.
POSITION : Senior Accountant
Responsibilities
The senior accountant will be primarily responsible for:
- Designing and developing relevant accounting policies procedures and controls for NIRA
- Preparing and recording asset, liability revenue and expenses entries by compiling and analyzing accounting information
- Maintaining and balancing subsidiary accounts by verifying, allocating, posting, reconciling transactions; resolving discrepancies
- Summarizing financial status by collating information; preparing balts4ce sheet, revenue account and other affiliated statements
- Processing payroll as at when due under the supervision of the Chief Operating Officer and generating pays slips for staff with cor&cr information showing statutory deductions
- Enforcing and monitoring compliance with accounting policies aria procedures
- Maintaining asset register and account payable and receivable rerecords for audit purposes
- Interfacing with external auditors: assisting with financial and tax audit
- Avoiding legal challenges by complying with legal requirements; including statutory obligations, withholding, corporate tax, VAT and PAYE
- Securing financial information by scheduling database backups
- Training and mentoring junior Accounting Staff
- Making recommendations to the Chief Operating Officer based on analysis and status of reserves, assets and expenditures
- Reviewing journal entries of Junior accountants to ensure accuracy
- Performing various analysis and preparing accounts reconciliation
- Carrying out any other work as assigned by the Chief Operating Officer
Qualifications and Attribute
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or Business related discipline with a minimum of second class upper division
- ACA or .ACCA is mandatory
- Three years post- ICAN qualification is mandatory
- Must have at least 10 years post-NYSC experience in financial management and administration
- Advanced experience with MS Word, MS Excel and PowerPoint.
- Strong analytical and accounting skills
- Budget monitoring and execution skills
- Ability to prepare accurate and timely financial records
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively with different levels of staff
How To Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV's to: hiring@lohiconsult.ngindicating the position applied for as subject of email.
Note: Selected candidates will be required to resume within the shortest possible time from the date of hiring.
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