Senior Accountant
Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full-time
Job Summary
- We are seeking an experienced Senior Accountant to lead the day-to-day Finance and Accounts function.
- The role covers financial accounting, management reporting, project accounting, cash-flow management, financial controls and team leadership.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage the general ledger, accounting records, monthly / year-end close, management accounts and financial statements.
- Review bank, receivables, payables and balance-sheet reconciliations and analyse financial performance and variances.
- Prepare and monitor project budgets, revenue, costs, commitments and expenditure.
- Monitor project margins, cost-to-complete, variations, unbilled revenue and project receivables.
- Identify cost overruns and underperforming projects and support project close-out and profitability analysis.
- Prepare cash-flow forecasts, monitor receivables, supplier obligations and working capital, and identify liquidity risks.
- Prepare budgets and forecasts and provide financial analysis to support pricing, investments, major expenditure and new projects.
- Maintain financial controls and segregation of duties and coordinate tax, statutory compliance and audit requirements.
- Review and challenge unsupported or unusual transactions.
- Supervise and develop two accounting staff, ensuring clear deadlines, accountability and financial discipline.
- Provide management with practical financial insights and recommendations to improve profitability and control costs.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance or related discipline.
- ICAN, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent professional qualification.
- Minimum 5 years of progressive accounting experience, including at least 2 years in a senior / supervisory role.
- Strong experience in financial accounting, management reporting, project accounting, project cost control and profitability analysis.
- Experience in budgeting, forecasting, cash-flow and working-capital management.
- Experience supervising/coordinating accounting staff.
- Strong knowledge of taxation, internal controls and statutory compliance.
- Proficiency in Excel and accounting software such as QuickBooks or ERP systems.
- Experience in Engineering, Oil & Gas, Construction, Consulting or another project-driven organisation is an advantage.
Key Competencies:
- Strong financial and project accounting capability
- Analytical and commercial judgement
- Cash-flow and working-capital management
- Project cost and profitability understanding
- Leadership
- Integrity
- Financial control
- Discipline
- Ownership
- Independent working
- Confidence to identify risks and challenge decisions constructively.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: HEA.careers@outlook.com using "Senior Accountant" as the subject of the email.