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Accounts and Finance Executive
About this role
The role is for an Accounts and Finance Executive in Lagos, employed by ECOM Agroindustrial Corp Limited. The company operates in soft commodity services, with focus areas including coffee, cocoa and cotton, and maintains operations across multiple locations. The role involves supervising the accounts team, ensuring accurate and timely financial data, preparing various financial reports, and overseeing internal controls, cash positions, and liquidity. It also includes management of stock counts, FX and currency risk, trade finance instruments, intercompany reconciliations, and coordination with statutory auditors. The position requires a qualified accounting professional with significant experience, including supervisory duties, and familiarity with ERP and accounting software. Candidates should be prepared to travel to other business locations as needed.
What you would do
- Supervise senior and junior accounts team members and oversee deliverables.
- Ensure completeness, accuracy and timely delivery of accounts data, records and reports.
- Ensure timely completion of Cognos reports.
- Monitor internal control systems across office and warehouse locations.
- Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual financial reports.
- Review journal entries, ledgers, reconciliations and trial balances.
- Prepare required accounts and finance schedules.
- Review daily and weekly reports for Finance Heads.
- Provide financial oversight for stock counts, reconciliations and shrinkage investigations.
- Analyze costs including warehousing, freight, clearing and port logistics to improve efficiency (where applicable).
What they are asking for
- HND or Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or related field.
- Master's or MBA in related discipline is an added advantage.
- Mandatory professional qualification (ICAN or ACCA).
- Minimum 5 years of progressive accounting/finance experience, with at least 3 years in supervision or management.
- Experience in agribusiness, FMCG, manufacturing or logistics/supply chain with multiple inventory locations preferred.
- Advanced MS Excel, ERP experience and accounting software (e.g., Sage Evolution, IBM Cognos).
- Strong attention to detail and knowledge of IFRS.
- Ability to influence and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.
- Problem-solving, analytical, time management and adaptability skills.
- Good written and verbal communication and people management abilities.
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