Accountant at Oscar Temple |

Oscar Temple – We are a fast-growing recruitment organisations with several specialist divisions that share a common goal of exceptional service and results. An opportunity to join our exciting office in Lagos has come up for a top-level graduate or experienced sales person. Our recruitment brands specialise in Financial Services, Telecoms, ICT, Oil & Gas and Power. Our training is known in the market place for being the very best in the industry.

We are recruiting to fill in the position below:

Job Title: Accountant

Location: Lagos


Job Description

The main responsibilities of the position include:

• Ensure adequate record keeping (efficient filing system), book keeping, and posting of transactions on a daily basis and maintenance of all relevant ledger accounts.
• Banking liaison functions including daily banking of all instruments received.
• Evaluate the performance of various types of banking relationships and make recommendations regarding the improvement of such relationships for effectiveness and efficiency of operations;
• Conduct a daily reconciliation of all accounts maintained with the third parties such as banks, brokers, insurance companies; A daily report of such positions must be forwarded to the Managing Director, copying the Heads of Units
• Generate weekly and monthly bank reconciliation statements.
• Ensure client’s transaction are posted real time into their cash accounts
• Review procedural and document flow charts relating to the unit operations with a view to improving efficiency and effectiveness;
• Assist in the production of periodic budgets for planning purposes
• Monitor company’s budget with respect to the actual performance and the production of periodic budget variance analysis statements for management decision making.
• Demonstrate continuous effort to improve operations, decrease turnaround times, streamline work processes, and work cooperatively and jointly to provide quality seamless customer service
• Liaise with the company’s auditors with respect to the company’s annual audit.
• Generate Fixed Income Investment report on a weekly basis.
• Provide general accounting information needs for the Back Office operations.

Qualification, Experience & Skill

• A good university degree – preferably in Accounting
• Minimum of 3-5 years’ experience preferably in a similar role
• Professional qualification – ACA/ACCA
• Analytical skill
• Critical thinking skills

Application Closing Date
18th May, 2018.

How to Apply

Interested and qualified candidates should send their Applications and CV’s to: invest@oscartemple.com using the job tittle as subject of the email.