Associate Manager(Finance) at Greenlight Planet

Employment Nigeria 21-Apr-2017 LAGOS , Managerial Administrative

Greenlight Planet delivers safe, affordable solar energy products to more than 2 billion people who live off the electric grid around the world.

POSITION : Associate Manager, Finance

DESCRIPTION

The Associate Manager, Finance (Nigeria) will work closely with the Global Controllership Team to provide financial leadership with regards to the accounting and tax compliance in Nigeria. This person will be accountable for all the accounting and reporting for Nigeria books of accounts for Greenlight Planet.

He or she will be also responsible for ensuring compliance on local laws and regulations and accounting as per local GAAP.

Key Responsibilities
Closure of books and audits:

Ensuring accurate month-close/quarter-close and year-close processes and manage all financial reporting responsibilities
Lead closure of all statutory and tax audits, external and internal audits
Finalization of the financial statements and perform the required analytical review of the financial statements
Discuss audit queries and close all issues raised by the auditors
Manage tax and overall account reconciliations to ensure the balance sheet is stated accurately
Responsible for ensuring accounting in accordance with local GAAP and US GAAP

Taxes and local compliance:

Manage all direct and indirect tax filings, reporting, analysis and all of its underlying processes
Be the lead for all Transfer pricing assessments, filings, reporting and processes
Responsible for liaising with the Service provider for getting the Transfer pricing study completed on a yearly basis
Responsible for preparing the necessary Tax reporting package on a quarterly basis for provision of all the status updates to Global finance team
Responsible for ensuring that the correct with-holding tax rate has been used for deducting the tax for all the required heads and all relevant items have been included for with-holding tax deduction
Responsible for liaising with the service provider for getting statutory remittances done on time for NSF, Pension and other related items
Responsible for maintenance of the monthly Compliance Dashboard and to ensure that all statutory payments are made on time

Others:

Partner with global finance team to execute finance initiatives across organization as required from time to time
Drive visibility into variable cost accounting, variable cost productivity, project margins analysis and other key financial metrics.
Responsible for creation of masters with all the relevant information of the customers and vendors and maintenance of necessary documents for them
Lead the process of employee reimbursements
Ensure all local secretarial compliances are done on time

The ideal candidate has:

ACA / CPA / MBA Finance qualification from a recognised institution
4-6 years relevant work experience in Controllership, accounting or taxation practices
Relevant work experience with an audit firm or Multinational corporation
Excellent analytical skills, able to clearly link financial results to operational performance drivers, generate alternatives and drive positive change
Clear thinking/problem solving ability- can lead projects/process improvement within operations/finance function
Ability to break down complex issues into simpler steps and resolve them
Fluency in both written and spoken English language
Excellent presentation skills and strong executive presence
Prioritize & promote teamwork
Participate and engage in operations in addition to finance
Grasp over MS Excel and MS power point
Willingness to stretch and achieve over and above base expectations.

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Associate Manager(Finance) at Greenlight Planet

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