ASSISTANT ACCOUNTANT

Posted 4 Days Ago
Ikeja, Lagos
Entry level
Fintech • Payments • Financial Services
The Role
The Assistant Accountant is responsible for authorizing expense vouchers, maintaining accurate recordkeeping, performing reconciliations for accounts payable and receivable, creating reports on expenses, assisting with auditor documentation, supervising subordinates, and identifying improvements in accounting processes.
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Job Responsibilities:
1. Authorize all expense vouchers in accordance with company policy.
2. Ensure accurate and timely daily recordkeeping and accounting systems of payment vouchers and classifying in accordance with company policy.
3. Daily check, reconciliation, update and correction of transaction postings as appropriate; promptly attend to reported reconciling items from cashier team.
4. Reconcile accounts payable and receivable ledgers at month end.
5. Create visibility into expense drivers through robust reporting and analysis; perform other account analysis and reconciliations as may be required.
6. Assist with providing documentation for external auditor requests; perform account analysis and reconciliations as may be required.
7. Supervise, manage and train subordinates.
8. Identify and implement processes improvements in the expense accounting process; establish workflow procedures and policies, develop Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for all processes within the job role.
Qualification:
1. Attention to Detail - being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
2. Strong analytical / problem solving skill.
3. Exceptional organizational, prioritization, decision-making, and planning skills.
4. Ability to work collaboratively with all business units across the company.
5. Ability to work together in a team setting.
6. Efficient communication and interpersonal skill.
7. Must have good mathematical and Microsoft office (excel, word) skills.
8. Working knowledge of ERP systems, can undertake pressure
9. Work experience in well-known companies is preferred.

The Company
London
1,477 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

PalmPay is building the financial superapp for Africa

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