Manager - Accounts & Finance - CA - Trading Group

Profile :- Accounts & Finance

Location :- Nigeria (Lagos)

Requirement :- CA, Nigerian Experience

Continuous management of financial systems and budgets;

Undertaking financial audits (an independent check of an organisation's financial position);

Providing financial advice.

Liaising with clients (individuals or businesses) and providing financial information and advice;

Reviewing the company's systems and analysing risk;

Performing tests to check financial information and systems;

Advising clients on tax planning (within current legislation to enable them to minimise their tax liability) and tax issues associated with activities such as business acquisitions and mergers;

Maintaining accounting records and preparing accounts and management information for small businesses (accountancy);

Advising clients on business transactions, such as mergers and acquisitions (corporate finance);

Counselling clients on areas of business improvement, or dealing with insolvency;

Detecting and preventing fraud (forensic accounting);

Managing junior colleagues.

Budgeting:

Manage the preparation of the company's budget

Report to management on variances from the established budget, and the reasons for those variances

Assist management in the formulation of its overall strategic direction

Financial Analysis:

Engage in ongoing cost reduction analyses in all areas of the company

Review the performance of competitors and report on key issues to management

Engage in benchmarking studies to establish areas of potential operational improvement

Interpret the company's financial results to management and recommend improvement activities

Review company bottlenecks and recommend changes to improve the overall level of company throughput

Participate in target costing activities to create products that meeting predetermined price goals

Assist in the determination of product pricing in relation to features offered and competitor pricing

Compile key business metrics and report on them to management

Manage the capital budgeting process, based on constraint analysis and discounted cash flow analysis

Create additional analyses and reports as requested by management