Job Role:

The Accountant will work under close supervision of the Finance Manager. The responsibility of the Accountant is to maintain up to date books of accounts in the accounting software of the Company.His responsibilities, among others, include preparation of journal voucher, payment voucher, receipt vouchers, filing of vouchers, review of bills before payment for arithmetic accuracy and adequacy of documents, raising of VAT invoice, maintenance of VAT sales and purchase registers, bank reconciliation, vendor reconciliation, agent reconciliation, payroll tax calculation, among others.

Scope of Role:  

Directly Reports to: Finance Manager

Indirectly Reports to: the Director and the Chairman

Staff reporting to this post: 

Direct: None

Indirect: Runners/Support Staffs

Will work in close coordination with Correspondence, Operations, Ticketing and Support departments

Key Areas of Accountability: 

• Maintain up to date books of accounts in the accounting software
• Ensure all vouchers generated from the accounting software have necessary approvals
• Check all supporting documents for arithmetic accuracy and adequacy of documents before preparation of vouchers from the accounting software
• File all vouchers along with supporting documents with objective of easy retrieval
• Raise VAT invoice timely and accurately
• Maintain up to date VAT sales and purchase register
• Reconcile all bank account statements, all vendor account statements, all agents account statements  with the Company's books of accounts
• Compute payroll taxation and other payroll deductions
• Perform duties as per the directions of the finance manager, the director and the Chairman
• Safeguarding of Company assets