Principal accountant at IT Horizons Limited in Lagos

Organization:

IT Horizons Limited

Job Location:

Lagos

Employment Type:

Full time
Date Posted:

Job Description

Responsibilties

  • To attain cost-efficient Utilization of IT Horizons’ financial assets, through the definition of financial guidelines, rules and standardized processes.
  • Engages Strategic leadership and the suitable Board Board to formulate short, medium, and long-term financial strategies and projections.
  • Conceptualizes and utilise financial projections and activity-based financial evaluation to offer a basis for financial funding decisions and business organizing.
  • Supervises key banking connections to coordinate proper, prompt and cost-efficient financing of organizational processes. 
  • Conceptualizes and preserve a system of suitable financial rules, standardized processes and regulates to guarantee productive finance Management. 
  • Observes all third-party payments to guarantee that such payments are justified by the value of work successfully finished and are in alignment with the authorized financial plan. 
  • Manages the project setup and information exchange of prompt, precise, and useful financial and management documentation for investors or lending institutions and IT Horizons’ management on aperiodic and /or as-needed basis. 
  • Collect capital as authorized by board of directors of Directors to finance ITHorizons’ initiatives. 
  • Execute a sound accounting structure in adherence with statutory offerings. 
  • Conceptualizes and execute a strong and dependable finance reporting system in adherence with statutory qualifications.
  • Make sure that adequate regulates are in place to coordinate smooth payment system.
  • Establish measures or regulates to guarantee that all financial financial record are precisely captured and reported. 
  • Authorize accruals and modifications on erroneously posted financial financial record into the financial system.
  • Coordinate with statutory auditors to discuss and settle queries as they arise to guarantee smooth audit exercise. 
  • Conceptualizes and oversee connections possessing applicable external bodies e.g. compliance-related entities, auditors, solicitors, banks etc. 
  • Address applicable requests from financial institutions. 
  • Authorizes wage processing along with Chiefs, P&C to coordinate payment to employees. 
  • Advise strategic leadership on modifications in financial rules, legislation and government tariffs. 
  • Oversee IT Horizons’ treasury assets to attain most effective procurement, application and growth of capital. 
  • Offer technical development, direction and advise on financial accounting concerns, progress updates and practices to other business or unit-specific heads. 
  • Oversee daily financial transactions and offer direction to organisation’s Finance unit. 
  • Oversee the effectiveness of employees in Finance unit. 
  • Evaluate on a weekly basis financial statements provided by applicable departments or units and offers prompt documentation to the CCO. 
  • Arranges the project setup of the organization’s financial statements and statutory status updates process. 
  • Manages the project setup of consistent financial and management accounts. 
  • Execute other obligations that may be allocated by the CCO.

Qualifications

  • At least Bsc in Accounting, Finance, Economics or any associated discipline.
  • Master of business administration or MSC in a associated discipline is a plus.
  • Applicable specialist qualifications from the Institute of Chartered Accounting officer of Nigeria (ICAN), Affiliation of Accredited and Chartered
  • Accounting officer (ACCA) or its equivalent 
  • At least 5 years related experience, interfacing with the Top management and financial associates.
  • Expertise of statutory finance reporting and expertise in GAAP, IFRS.
  • Expertise in GAAP, IFRS.

Consciousness:

  • A good comprehension of what is participated in an specialization and its significance to the business.
  • Capability to explain the main elements of the specialization and their value to the business; 
  • Capability to identify how and where competences in proficiency are applicable to their own position.
  • Expertise o Capability to analyze and assess information and guidance from professionals in an specialization.
  • Expertise and capability to correctly use the terminology (vocabulary) of the specialization.
  • Capability to hold an informed debate with professionals in the Specialization;
  • Capability to seek clarification that test the viability of proposals in an Specialization.

Ability:

  • Capability to repeatedly carry out the initiatives of an specialization to the necessary standard. 
  • Capability to deliver okay majority of initiatives of the Specialization.
  • Capability to convert standard procedures and guidelines for the Specialization into practical actions. 
  • Capability to solve imaginatively common technical /business challenges in the Specialization,
  • Capability to mentor and advise others in business /technical components of the Specialization.

Proficiency:

  • Capability to diagnose and settle significant, unusual challenges and to successfully adjust components of an Specialization.
  • Capability to imaginatively solve significant, sophisticated, non-standard procedure challenges in the Specialization.
  • Capability to adjust procedures from other markets or countries applicable in the Specialization; 
  • Capability to produce substantial enhancements to local procedures and standardized processes for the Specialization.

Application Due Date

  • Monday 25th Aug, 2025

Steps To Apply

Suitable applicants should send their application and thorough Resume to: careers@ithorizonsgroup.com using "Principal accountant" as the subject of the mail.

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