Accounts Payable Officer Job at Calaya Engineering Services

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Accounts Payable Officer

Job Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers
Employment Type: Contract

About the Job
The personnel is required to:

• Receive invoices and confirm the attachment of relevant documents (Purchase Order, Job Progress Completion, Mission Order, Training attendance etc.), to invoices submitted.
• Ensure that the correct tax codes are applied (VAT, WHT, NCD and Cabotage) for appropriate deductions on invoices and subsequent remittance to the relevant government agencies.
• Follow-up of Cost Controllers, Technicians, JPC Creators/Releasers in respect of outstanding invoices in IMP workflow.
• Control each invoice to be validated to ensure that no duplicated entry has been registered into the accounting system.
• Barcode invoice as evidence of invoice receipt. Barcodes are useful for invoice identification.
• Scanning (manual scanning or digital copying) of invoices for transmission into IMP Cockpit.
• Initiate and coordinate all necessary actions to be taken by other IMP/web cycle actors, Payment or General Accountants, Cost Controllers and if necessary Technical Departments for the regularization of all Expense Documents which could not be validated.
• Respond to circularization letters received from external auditors on behalf of vendors.
• Ensure that all invoices processed as FI fall within the scope of those approved by Management to be such treated.
• Investigation and follow-up of invoices overdue for payment and other invoices stuck in the workflow due to various reasons.
• Investigate and respond to vendors enquiries.
• Analyze open items in the GLs 401*and 42* to ensure prompt payments are made.
• Other duties as may be assigned from time to time by hierarchies.

Qualifications

• B. Sc. Accounting / Business related degree.
• 2-5 years post-graduation work experience.
• Professional qualification will be an added advantage
• Basic understanding of Oil and Gas Upstream operations.
• Ability to use specialized accounting software and other Windows PC applications.
• Good interpersonal skills.