About this role
The role is for a Project Accountant to oversee accounting, financial control and reporting of capital and investment projects at Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc’s Golden Sugar Company in Niger. It covers recording and monitoring project transactions from initiation to completion, managing CAPEX cycles, and ensuring correct coding in the ERP system. The position requires a university degree and professional accounting qualifications with several years of relevant experience in manufacturing or FMCG. The employer operates in the food sector with brands like Golden Penny and Golden Noodles and is recruiting for a full-time role at GSC Sunti. Candidates must be able to analyse project expenditures, prepare reports, and communicate financial status to non-finance managers.
What you would do
- Record and follow up on all transactions related to capital and investment projects at GSC Sunti.
- Control the end-to-end CAPEX cycle from requisitions to contractor payments.
- Ensure project and financial dimensions are correctly established in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and coding is accurate.
- Maintain a CAPEX register with budget, actual, committed expenditure and forecast-to-complete.
- Monitor actual expenditure against budget and escalate variances to project leadership and Head of Finance.
- Analyse cost variances and advise on under-budget or over-budget scenarios.
- Prepare and present reports on project expenditure and status.
- Reconcile financial expenditure with physical project progress.
- Ensure compliance with contract accounting, CAPEX accounting and procurement procedures.
- Support non-finance managers in understanding project financials.
What they are asking for
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or related field.
- Professional membership: ICAN, ACCA, ACA or CIMA.
- Minimum of 5 years of cognate experience post-ICAN qualification, preferably in manufacturing/FMCG.
- Understanding of contract accounting, CAPEX accounting and procurement procedures.
- Strong project financial controls and end-to-end CAPEX process knowledge.
- Structured reporting skills for actual, committed, and forecast-to-complete expenditure.
- Ability to explain financial figures to non-finance managers.
- Ability to reconcile financial expenditure with physical project progress.
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