Finance Officer (ICAN) at IT Horizons Limited

Job Title: Finance Officer (ICAN)

Location: Lagos

Employment Type: Full-time

About IT Horizons Ltd.:

IT Horizons Ltd. is a company with diverse talents and skills on existing, recent, and upcoming technologies worldwide. We are a team of young, vibrant, ambitious, but experienced professionals who deal with everything relating to technologies, especially information and communication technologies (ICT). In addition, we have the ability to update with the latest trends and requirements of our esteemed clients. Our company, established in 2010, had been driven by innovations and excellence, and with its rapid rate of success and customers’ requirements, we were fully incorporated into a private limited company in 2012 with the aim of helping organizations in achieving their goals by providing optimum technological solutions while reducing the total cost of ownerships.

Job Summary:

To provide support in bookkeeping, capturing of accounting transactions, bank reconciliation, and reporting on financial transactions.
Prepares records for remittance of statutory deductions such as: Value Added Tax (VAT), Withholding Tax (WHT), Capital Gain Tax and staff-related statutory payments, i.e. PAYE, Pension, NHF, etc.

Job Responsibilities:

Updates account payable and receivable ledgers for all purchases, including payments to vendors for products or services.
Receives invoice and requisition for goods and services and also process payments accordingly.
Prepares and update prepayments, accruals and provisions schedules and ledger.
Prepares weekly report for payment transactions.
Prepares periodic or monthly reconciliation of all accounts to ensure accuracy and completeness.
Relates effectively with the organisation’s financial service providers.
Documents and update records of all fixed assets to ensure assets are properly valued, accounted for and safeguarded.
Reviews records for remittance of staff related statutory payments i.e. PAYE, Pension, NHF, etc.
Prepares monthly account and compute appropriate taxes; VAT and WHT schedules.
Processes expense retirement ledgers to ensure proper accountability of all cash advances.
Assists in the generation of financial reports as required by management.
Handles all aspects of assigned bookkeeping activities such as journals and nominal ledger administration by updating the accounting application with transactions as they occur.
Implements accounting controls in day-to-day performance of tasks (e.g. confirm the accuracy of general ledger codes on the accounting system).
Documents and updates records of all assets to ensure proper valuation and security.
Collates and consolidates financial information from all business units and prepares trial balances.
Performs other duties that may be assigned by the Accountant