MTN Nigeria is looking suitable qualified to recruit a Financial Reporting Accountant for its Finance department. This position is based Lagos, Nigeria. The job holder will report to the Financial Reporting Manager.
Role Summary:
- Act as a point of contact with auditors
- Perform analytical review of the monthly income statement.
- Review data posted into the Operating Expenses accounts for accuracy and to ensure they impact the correct accounts.
- Raise manual journals to correct any error discovered during the review mentioned above.
- Review asset/liability accounts to ascertain their completeness, accuracy, valuation and existence
- Ensure accurate reporting of management fees
- Prepare financial statements for statutory purposes and internal reporting (MIS).
- Follow up and escalate issues from statutory audits.
- Identify and escalate needs from the ERP system.
- Monitor to ensure financial accounts are in compliance with Accounting standards (IAS, SAS, SA, IFRS) and GAAP
- Prepare, update and provide links to the trend analysis for actual data only (IS).
- Perform other duties as assigned by the Financial Reporting Manager.
- Preparation of exception report after month-end review.
Candidates should have following requirements for this position:
B.Sc. in Accounting or any other related discipline.
A professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CPA)
4 years finance and accounting experience which includes:
Experience within a leading organisation’s financial department
Experience in working with enterprise financial systems.
Experience in telecommunications industry (desirable).
Conditions:
Normal MTNN working conditions. Extended working hours. Immense pressure at month end. Preparation of statutory financial statements within specified timelines. Turnaround time for financial statements generation. Feedback from external auditors on state of financial records. Compliance with local and international GAAP.
Deadline:
Only online application will be accepted via MTN website www.mtnonline.com. The last date for online submission of application is Jan/29/2012
How to apply?
If you are interested in Financial Reporting Accountant at MTN, visit on http://careers.mtnonline.com/mtncareers/vacancies.asp?deptid=4&id=1925 for apply it.
