Finance Associate at CornerStone Staffing

CornerStone Staffing - Our Client, a big player in the FMCG Industry, is recruiting suitably qualified candidates to fill the position below:

Job Position: Finance Associate
Job Location: Lagos

Job Description

• Our Client, is looking to recruit a Finance Associate. This role is responsible for the delivery of the financial and business processes and systems in line with corporate standards
• The post holder will undertake specific work within Finance and contribute to improving functional efficiency.

Responsibilities
Cash Accounting/Banking & Treasury:

• To ensure all over the counter cash is banked in line with relevant policy and parked on SAP Cash Journals.
• To ensure appropriate procedures are adhered to when cash is received and to bank all cash and other instrument within ‎2 ‎days of receipt or immediately threshold of ‎cash holding‎ is attained.
• Ensure all relevant Cash Journals are balanced within 48 hours of banking being completed.
• Ensure all delegated banking activities are diligently carried out.

Procurement & Payables:

• Ensure all invoices are checked within 24 hours of receipt and scanned within 48 hours; thus contributing to significant reduction of Open Purchase Orders and late payment to vendors.
• Ensure that scanned invoices are backed up on the Finance shared drive.

Vendor & Customer Creation:

• Ensure documents and files for newly created vendors are properly filed and alphabetically for easy referencing
• Update the Vendor and Customer Master Database with every new creation/amendment of vendor and customer respectively.

Financial Management:

• Ensure that all FI journal documents are filed according to their numbers and the month of posting.
• Participate in the preparation for internal audit and tax audit exercises; ensuring that all relevant files and documents are in place for smooth running of these audits.
• Ensure that Trip envelopes are properly logged in the Trip Register, backed up on the G-Drive and properly filed in the assigned shelf.

Customer Service:

• Timely provision of assistance and support to other colleagues to enable them manage their delegated finances and comply with audit standards.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance or Accounting or related field
• 3-5 years' work experience in an FMCG
• Minimum of PE1 of ICAN/ACCA
• Advance proficiency in Microsoft Word processing and spreadsheet applications; ability to utilize database application
• Advanced level of Microsoft Excel (Pivot tables, Vlookups, and nestedifs formulas)
• Ability to interpret Financial Data from various systems and in various formats

Skills and Competencies:

• Excellent analytical and quick-decision making skills
• Strong attention to detail with highly organized, advanced office skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to learn new processes quickly
• Ability to manage multiple decision processes while working in a fast-paced paperless environment using multiple systems and databases
• Ability to resolve problem.