Accountants at IITA – International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (

Contract: 3-year renewable contract                                   

DUTIES: 

• Ensure preparation of prompt, timely and accurate financial statements to donors.
• Review from time-to-time project budget and advise budget holder/PM on potential project overrun.
• Ensure prompt preparation and submission of invoice to donor.
• Coordinate assigned project Audit during the year.
• Ensure prompt and accurate computation of annual budgets.
• Ensure prompt resolution of issues raised by Budget officer/PM.
• Contribute meaningfully to IITA overall cashflow management.
• Advise PM on budget burn rate to avoid overrun & ineligible expenses.
• Support the Institute’s annual audit with relevant schedules and respond to audit queries.
• Partner’s justification – Timely Justification of partners financial reports.
• Accurate verification of all partner’s expenses based on support documents submitted with the financial report on assigned projects.
• Budget monitoring and budget compliance.
• Ensure project expenditure doesn’t exceed life budget always.
• Avoid ineligible overrun on each budget line.
• Eliminate project overrun through budget monitoring and variance analysis/burn rate tracking.
• Early identification of projects with Overrun potential through the monthly Budget Monitoring report.
• Prepare accurate and timely overhead and CSP charges at the month end for all active projects.
• Perform any other job-related duties as may be assigned by the Supervisor.

QUALIFICATION:

Masters in Accounting or related field with a minimum of six (6) years’ experience in a well-structured environment or a well-structured environment. Possession of ACA or ACCA is an added advantage.

COMPETENCIES:

The ideal candidate must:

• Be proficient with Oracle EBS and Microsoft Office Suite.
• Have usage of Banking platforms and Payroll dynamics experience.
• Have good communication skills (writing, reading, and speaking).
• Be a good team player and pay attention to details.

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DUTIES: 

• Perform booking of received funds.
• Prepare and load journals using accounting desktop integrator into oracle interface.
• Perform reconciliation of bank/cash account monthly (32 banks, cash and deposit accounts).
• Perform data entry to oracle AP and GL daily.
• Download exchange rate from FT and convert to excel weekly.
• Journalize emergency cash transactions daily and write cash book adjustment daily.
• Attend to enquires from internal/external auditors and from local/oversea suppliers as they affect treasury functions.
• Perform book fast track purchase and corporate credit card transactions.
• Prepare and send remittance advice to payee on foreign payments made through wire transfer.
• Perform investments management with various banks.
• Perform any other job-related duties as may be assigned by the Supervisor.

QUALIFICATION:

BSc/HND in Finance and Accounting or related field with a minimum of five (5) years’ experience performing a similar role in a well-structured environment. Possession of ACA or ACCA is an added advantage.

COMPETENCIES:

The ideal candidate must:

• Be proficient with Oracle EBS and Microsoft Office Suite.
• Have usage of Banking platforms and Payroll dynamics experience.
• Have good communication skills (writing, reading, and speaking).
• Be a good team player and pay attention to details.