Job Title: Financial Reporting Accountant
Job ID: 1925
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Organisation: MTN Nigeria Communications Limited
Job Description:
• Act as a point of contact with auditors
• Perform analytical review of the monthly income statement.
• Review data posted into the Operating Expenses accounts for accuracy and to ensure they impact the correct accounts.
• Raise manual journals to correct any error discovered during the review mentioned above.
• Review asset/liability accounts to ascertain their completeness, accuracy, valuation and existence
• Ensure accurate reporting of management fees
• Prepare financial statements for statutory purposes and internal reporting (MIS).
• Follow up and escalate issues from statutory audits.
• Identify and escalate needs from the ERP system.
• Monitor to ensure financial accounts are in compliance with Accounting standards (IAS, SAS, SA, IFRS) and GAAP
• Prepare, update and provide links to the trend analysis for actual data only (IS).
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Financial Reporting Manager.
• Preparation of exception report after month-end review.
Job Conditions:
• Normal MTNN working conditions.
• Extended working hours.
• Immense pressure at month end.
• Preparation of statutory financial statements within specified timelines.
• Turnaround time for financial statements generation.
• Feedback from external auditors on state of financial records.
• Compliance with local and international GAAP.
Reporting To: Financial Reporting Manager
Required Skills:
• B.Sc. in Accounting or any other related discipline.
• A professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CPA)
• 4 years finance and accounting experience which includes:
• Experience within a leading organisation's financial department
• Experience in working with enterprise financial systems.
• Experience in telecommunications industry (desirable).
Deadline: 29th January, 2013.
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