Welcome, Guest: Register On Nairaland / LOGIN! / Trending / Recent / NewStats: 3,201,125 members, 7,977,245 topics. Date: Wednesday, 16 October 2024 at 11:39 PM |
Nairaland Forum / Nairaland / General / Jobs/Vacancies / Vacancy Exists For The Position Of A Financial Accountant At Greensprings School (642 Views)
Greensprings School Graduate Trainee Programme 2018 / Aptitude test for Greensprings School Graduate Trainee Programme 2016 / Vacancy Exists For The Position Of An Account Officer At Greensprings School (2) (3) (4)
(1) (Reply)
Vacancy Exists For The Position Of A Financial Accountant At Greensprings School by hrdepartment(f): 12:26pm On Sep 11, 2015 |
Greensprings School, an international co-educational institute comprising of Primary and Secondary schools situated in both Anthony and Lekki areas of Lagos is requiring a male/female accounting professional with strong analytical skills, I.T skills, good numeracy skills and excellent interpersonal skills to fill in for the position of a Financial Accountant for Anthony Campus. The responsibilities and essential duties performed on a frequent and recurring basis by the Financial Accountant includes but not limited to the following: SCHOOL FEES FUNCTION Direct supervision of Account Receivable in order to provide accurate data for management use by: • Ensure timely generation of accurate school bills for all students • Ensure regular update Students’ Records as and when due • Responsible for accurate billing summary at the beginning of each term • Liaising with parents regarding school fee payments. • Assist in the preparation of installment plans, fee calculations and statements. • Regular follow up on overdue accounts • Assist DFA in prompt collection of fees, donations and other approved receivables and issuance of receipt. • Ensure timely preparation of report of fees and extract the outstanding fees • Prepare school fees reconciliation statement on monthly, term & annual basis • Liaise with school office and provide weekly report on students population • Any other fee function assigned by DFA TREASURY FUNCTION • Preparation of weekly cash flow statements for school fund. • Preparation of weekly cash receipts schedule. • Petty Cash Reimbursement Function. • Bank Imprest Reimbursement Function • Bank Reconciliation Function - ensure up to date reconciliation • Monthly review of bank reconciliation and submission of same for approval • Maintenance of Other School Activities Funds • Maintenance of the Students Pocket Money Account & maintaining the cash books. • Any other treasury tasks assigned by DFA MANAGEMENT FUNCTION: •Supervise Finance & Accounts Staff and ensure compliance with accounting policies &procedures • Coordinate Account Reconciliations • Liaise with Internal Auditors • Attend to tax & pension matters and follow up on statutory deduction and remittances • Ensures proper compilation, posting and coding of vouchers • Assists in preparation of budget for the school by collation school budget data and providing same as input for the cost Accountant • Analyze and summarize reasons for school’s monthly & annual budget variances. • Participates in the preparation of consolidated financial reports. • Manages the supervision and evaluation of assigned employees. • Provide inputs for development of improved accounting controls and procedures. • Other tasks as assigned by the DFA Financial Accounting Functions: • Reviews & adjust ledgers and subsidiary ledgers including cash receipts fixed assets etc • Monitors investments • Generate accurate and timely management reports • Coordinate consolidated reports • Liaise with both internal and external Auditors • Assist in the preparation of consolidated budget • Analyse and summarize reasons for consolidated budget variances • Reviewing Journals for accuracy and supporting documents before posting • Prepare monthly financial report for DFA • Prepares Head office account reconciliation and monitoring of same for accuracy • Prepares reconciliation for domiciliary accounts • Others duties as assigned by the DFA • Appropriate accounting treatment in line with the provisions of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS); As the School’s financial treatment transits from Statement of Accounting Standards(SAS) to IFRS, there’s the need to ensure that transactions are treated timely in line with the provisions of IFRS. • Inventory management • Allowances for doubtful debts • Close the book procedures. • Preparation of The School’s financial statement in line with the provisions of IFRS. • A comprehensive review of the School’s existing processes, especial manual in line with the standard • Regular review of the ability of SAGE accounting software to constantly meet with the needs of the School’s financial records. • Effective internal audit and controls with specific emphasis on interdependences of controls across departments and impact on financial reporting Cost Accounting Functions: • Works with stores to coordinate physical inventory counts and cycle counts • Ensure accuracy and completeness of monthly inventory valuation reports • Obtain inventory distribution and ensures accurate allocation of inventory cost to cost centre • Investigate cycle counting variance and resolves issues • Review standard and actual cost • Validate the cost of sales as part of month end close • Accumulate and apply overhead costs as required by generally accepted accounting principle • Work with store to locate and dispose obsolete inventory • Reports on margin by product and division • Periodic variances analysis • Analyse capital budgeting requests • Prepares and analyse costing audits and cost reports • Tracking of budgetary compliance & watching out for cost overruns • Collects operational data &analyse reports of forecast OPEX & CAPEX budgets • Collects &analyse past years data to forecast budget • Advise management on most appropriate course of action • All these and other tasks as assigned by the DFA OTHERS • Involved in the school day-to-day running expense decisions • Prepare the school’s financial statements. • Review of transaction forms before posting to ensure accuracy of coding • Reviews and adjusts general ledgers and subsidiary ledgers including cash receipts, cash disbursements, and accounts receivable. • Generates accurate and timely reports for management. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS B. Sc /H.N.D Accounting, Finance or Economics M.BA/M.Sc is an Added Advantage Professional Qualifications ACA/ACCA/CISA/CFA/IFRS Relevant Work Experience: Minimum of 7 years experience as a Financial Accountant Interested and qualified applicants should please send their CVs to hrdept.anthony@greenspringsschool.com |
(1) (Reply)
Vacancy For An Accountant (for Males Only) / Now Hiring! - Sales Engineer/technical Sales Executive (kano) / Experienced Driver Needed In Ajah Area
(Go Up)
Sections: politics (1) business autos (1) jobs (1) career education (1) romance computers phones travel sports fashion health religion celebs tv-movies music-radio literature webmasters programming techmarket Links: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) Nairaland - Copyright © 2005 - 2024 Oluwaseun Osewa. All rights reserved. See How To Advertise. 16 |