Tax Accountant

• Prepare, examine, or analyze accounting records, financial statements, or other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.
• Establish charts of accounts and assign entries to proper accounts.
• Develop, implement, modify, and document record-keeping and accounting systems, making use of current technology or designated ERP.
• Compute taxes owed and prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting, or other tax requirements (make VAT and PAYE returns to the relevant tax authorities).
• Maintain or examine the records of government agencies
• Develop, maintain, and analyze budgets, preparing periodic reports that compare budgeted costs to actual costs.
• Analyze business operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations, to project future revenues and expenses or to provide advice.
• Assemble spreadsheets and draw charts and graphs used to illustrate technical reports.
• Analyze financial information to produce forecasts of business, industry, and economic conditions for use in making investment decisions.
• Monitor fundamental economic, industrial, and corporate developments through the analysis of information obtained from financial publications and services, investment banking firms, government agencies, trade publications, company sources, and personal interviews.
• Perform intercompany (related companies) reconciliations using appropriate templates.
• Scrutiny of the control account.
• FIRS and LIRS Compliance and Liaising of Tax Audits
• Fixed assets accounting, depreciation, and its certification from the Federal Ministry of Industry.

Requirements:

• Evidence of professional certification(s) or in the process of acquiring one.
• A logical approach to identifying and evaluating issues and problem-solving.
• Well-developed organizational skills with the ability to prioritize multiple assignments.
• Demonstrated job commitment and personal flexibility to meet changing expectations.
• Commitment to self-development and expansion of knowledge
• Ability to Conduct and Evaluate Research.
• Good Decision Making.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Good Analytical skills.
• Has a strong knowledge of the use of Finance ERP (Sage, QuickBooks, or a customized ERP).