Chief Accountant Job At Hamilton LIoyd

Hamilton Lloyd and Associates - Our client is the leading provider of pan-African corporate connectivity and telecommunications. With customers in 43 sub-Saharan markets, they offer business communications services to regional and multinational corporations operating across the continent, connecting over 1200 of the continent’s largest and leading corporations.

Hamilton Lloyd and Associates - Our client, a leading provider of pan-African corporate connectivity and telecommunications seeks to employ the position below:

Job Title: Chief Accountant
Job Location: Lagos

Purpose Statement

• Ensuring that the company's financial activities are conducted in a legal, accurate, timely manner and are maximized for stakeholders' benefit.
• Generate monthly operating reports, forecasts, half and full year statutory accounts and annual budget, ensuring timeliness, accuracy, relevance, good presentation and compliance with company policies.
• Required to collate, interpret and analyse accounting and financial information and offer regular and timely advice to management on trends, behaviours, reactions and developments with implication for business operations.

Principal Accountabilities/Objectives

• Preparation of monthly management accounts
• Preparation & management of budgets
• Design of control systems for process optimization and (where required) and to safeguarding the assets of the company
• Review & monitoring of operational expenses
• Assets & Liabilities Management & review
• Work with other line managers ensure all group related reporting deliverables for monthly, quarterly, half-yearly and yearly are met
• Coordinate the preparation of statutory accounts and supporting the audit planning activities.
• Communications and Work Relationships

Knowledge, Skills, and Competency Requirements

• Strong technical accounting skills including a depth of knowledge of IFRS and its business application preferably from a telecommunication or manufacturing company
• Exceptional analytical problem solving skills
• Attention to details
• Highly organized and efficient
• Strong presentation skills
• Ability to work under pressures and deadline driven
• Ability to manage multiple tasks
• Ability to research and report on various technical accounting issues
• Very comfortable with Microsoft office applications, SAGE & HFM Accounting Packages
• Big 4 audit firm experience highly desired

Qualification and Experience

• A graduate of Accountancy or any related discipline with a minimum of Second Class Upper
• ACA/ACCA qualified with at least 10 years cognate corporate reporting experience
• Possession of an MBA/Master's Degree in relevant discipline will be an added advantage

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Note: Only qualified candidates will be contacted. If you are not contacted after 2 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.


Deadline: 19th January,2015