Senior Accountant at White Tree Retail Limited

White Tree Gourmet is a seamless grocery shopping experience in the heart of Ikoyi, Lagos. Buy fresh produce and quality products for your home in-store or online. Whitetree Bistro – a blend of relaxation and flavours. Our Vision is Making Grocery shopping modern and inspiring for our customers in NIgeria. Our Products: When you walk through each section and aisle, you’re walking through the best products in their widest ranges. Our Experience: We are completely sold out to improve your grocery shopping experience from our products, our team and our programs.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Accountant

Location: Ikoyi, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description / Responsibilities

Analyse financial information detailing assets, liabilities, and capital, and prepare balance sheet, profit and loss statement, and other reports to summarize current and projected company financial position.
Audit contracts, orders, and vouchers, and prepares report to substantiate individual transactions prior to settlement.
Prepare federal, state, or local tax returns of individual, business establishment, or other organization: Examines accounts and records and computes taxes owed according to prescribed rates, laws, and regulations.
Advise management regarding effects of business activities on taxes, and on strategies for minimizing tax liability.
Prepare Financial Statement for Management decision.
Day-to-day management of the Financial and Management Accounting processes.
Implement approved accounting processes. systems and controls for products and services.
Ensure all creditors’ balances are diligently & completely recorded and accounted for on a daily basis.
Render accurate and timely returns to appropriate statutory regulatory authorities in compliance with all applicable requirements.
Plan, organize and implement accounting operations and objectives, coordinate and integrate activities toward achievement of established goals and objectives.
Assist management in the formulation of its overall strategic direction
Compute taxes owed and prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting and other tax requirements.
Liaising with other function managers to put the finances and accounts in context;
Monitoring and evaluating financial information systems and suggesting improvements where needed;
Analyze business operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations, to project future revenues and expenses or to provide advice.
Report to management regarding the financial health and status of the Organization.
Establish tables of accounts, and assign entries to proper accounts.

KPI:

To prepare & review budgets for new projects
To ensure that financial statements and management reports on all projects are prepared & submitted on a monthly basis
To ensure that all projects are correctly closed down including disposal of assets, closure of bank accounts and finalization of reports
To come up with yearly cost reduction models for the company
To maintain financial risk assessments of all projects, ensuring that key risks are identified & clear recommendations are presented to the MD
To manage multiple project accounts
To develop and deliver relevant financial training to account clerk/assistant

Experience / Competency

First Degree in Accounting or other numerate discipline.
Minimum of five (4) years relevant experience in core accounting function with at least two (2) years supervisory experience.
Experience in retail and with retail management systems is a plus.
Compulsory Audit/Tax Management Experience
Strong background in account, stock management process
High degree of integrity confidentiality, confidence in tasks execution.
Working knowledge of Oracle ERP and audit management tools and other accounting software.
Successful candidate must be chattered
ACA or other relevant international professional qualifications (CIMA, CPA, ACCA)
Financial management
Budgeting and planning
Accounting policies and standards
Financial analysis and interpretation
Tax management
Risk identification & management
Cost accounting techniques