Assistant Manager, Financial Control & Reporting

Department - Finance

Reports To - Manager, Financial Control & Reporting

Direct Reports: Senior Account Officers , Account Officers

Job Summary

• Assist in the preparation of corporate financial reports for DCP Nigeria to aid management decision making and ensure compliance with regulatory standards.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Spools Trial Balance from SAP on a periodic basis for preparation of financial statement and preparation of other management reports
• Performs month end closing activities before period close
• Prepares monthly and quarterly financial statement reports under IFRS for four Nigeria subsidiaries using information generated from SAP
• Support during quarterly preparation of Consolidated Interim Financial Statements.
• Ensure transactions are promptly and accurately booked in the transactional systems through communication with different process owners.
• Engage with external auditor during statutory and group audit, preparing audit file and providing relevant schedules that ties with the trial balance and other supporting documents.
• Review of Management letter points from the external auditors and liaising with management for actions needed to address issues raised
• Prepares monthly trend analysis of trial balance line items and explanation of the variances using financial information generated from SAP
• Review of trial balance for reasonableness, investigation of unusual entries and correction of wrong entries and omission for reliability and accuracy of financial data
• Prepares monthly forex exposure reports and month end closing activities.
• Provides support during the Tax filing and submission of NEITI Audit
• Collaborates with different internal stakeholders in migrating new subsidiaries to SAP.

Key Requirements

Education and Work Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent in Accounting or related discipline.

• Relevant professional accounting qualification such as ACA, ACCA etc.
• 6 to 10 years related work experience.

• Private Health Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Training & Development