Our client, a faith-based university, operating in the South-South zone, has the below mentioned personnel to fill the vacant position.
Position: Chief Accounts Officer
Duties:
The duties of the Chief Accounting Officer include:
- Preparation of annual financial statements and any other periodic financial and management reports as may be required.
- Preparation of periodic bank reconciliation statements.
- Proactively identifying and implementing process improvements and operational efficiencies.
- Developing and maintaining good relations with banks, tax authorities, and other parties with whom the university has to relate.
- Keeping proper records of all financial transactions.
- Managing the payroll
- Managing the short-term and lone-term financial and non-financial assets of the university.
- Receiving and recording students’ fees and other payments made to the university
- Identifying and implementing processes that would ensure minimal indebtedness to the university.
- Ensuring the smooth running of the computerized accounting system.
- Establishing job standards for subordinate staff and effectively evaluating their performance.
- Preparing, analyzing, and monitoring; the university’s budget
- Preparing status reports to aid effective budgetary control.
- Ensuring that all financial transactions follow approved financial guidelines
- Suggesting financial policies, procedures and guidelines.
- Advise the university on all financial matters.
Skills Required:
- Ability to use a personal computer to prepare correspondence, reports, charts, etc.
- Ability to use accounting and other relevant softwares.
- Ability to generate detailed, well-illustrated reports and proposals, and make good presentations.
- Ability to suggest new policies and procedures and to administer established ones
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, organizational and decision-making skills.
Method of Application:
Interested applicants should send detailed Curriculum Vitae and copies of credentials to: universitypositions@yahoo.com on or before 25th October 2011
