Operations Accountant

Seamfix Limited is on a quest to within the next 9 more years (in line with our 10-year strategic objectives) deliver value to 1 billion end customers, empower 10 thousand businesses, and build 1 thousand leaders.

In Seamfix, we are extremely aware that there are endless possibilities if we can be one united people who speak the same creative language, create with the same image or picture of success, and work towards the same end goal hence, we are looking for one who is a team player, who will resonate deeply with our vision, speaks the same creative language and desires same or even bigger impact.

We help organizations acquire and service a lot of customers digitally by seamlessly automating their onboarding and service delivery processes so that they can be more productive, make their customers happy, and boost their revenues. Our identity and essence are solving problems in a very seamless manner in line with our name; Seamfix is coined from Seamless fixing of problems.

Financial Records Management

• Responsible for recording and maintaining up-to-date records of the company’s daily financial transactions in line with IFRS.
• Responsible for preparing the month-end closure schedules.
• Responsible for ensuring adequate supporting documents e.g. invoices and receipts are attached to every financial transaction on the ERP with hardcopies made available for filing.
• Regular review and reconciliation of Statement of Financial Position accounts and preparation of schedules that agree with the General Ledger balances monthly.
• Reconciliation of bank accounts and preparation of Bank Reconciliation Statements monthly. 
• Responds to financial inquiries by gathering, analyzing, summarizing, and interpreting data.

Payment Processing & Payables Management

• Promptly send Remittance Advice for payments processed to requesting vendors.
• Responsible for monitoring and reconciling vendors' accounts and ensuring credit balances with vendors are promptly utilized.
• Ensure timely and accurate vendor payments at all times.
• Ensure withholding tax is properly deducted and remitted on behalf of vendors.
• Ensure prompt posting of all expenses and payments in the accounting system.
• Responsible for ensuring only properly authorized requisitions are paid.
• Ensure timely and accurate month-end closing of accounts payables including monthly accruals of liabilities.
• Maintain accurate records of obligations due at any point in time.
• Ensure payment terms on purchase orders issued by vendors are honored.
• Responsible for scrutinizing purchase requisitions submitted by various departments to validate the necessity and reasonableness of requests, amongst other things.
• Ensure all purchase requisitions processed have been approved by a responsible party.
• Responsible for ensuring the company receives value (good or service) for all payments made prior to good or service delivery.
• Responsible for ensuring goods/services received match approved purchase requisition.

Risk and Compliance

• Responsible for oversight of the processes, and procedures including but not limited to compliance with policies and procedures, payment terms, exception management, etc.
• Ensure that the company is not exposed to regulatory and statutory issues.
• Ensure regular filings and remittances of tax and statutory remittances
• Ensure all compliance-related documents are obtained before deadlines.
• Liaise with customers to ensure prompt remittance and collection of tax credit notes.

External Audit & Taxation

• Provide all the necessary financial documents and support required by the external auditors during external audits.
• Responsible for ensuring external audits are scheduled and conducted promptly before applicable statutory deadlines.
• Liaison with external auditors and tax consultants on any matters arising.
• Responsible for ensuring approved recommendations by the external auditors are properly implemented. 
• Manage LIRS and FIRS audits for the company and its related parties.

Other Responsibilities

• Maintain the company’s statutory, tax, compliance documents and correspondence on Confluence
• Respond to all requests for documents from other departments.
• Manage the airtime disbursement for staff
• Provide weekly cash reports to the management.
• Carry out the weekly count of the safe and its contents.
• Handle all bank correspondences.
• Any other responsibilities as may be assigned by your line manager.

PII CONTROLLER RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collection of personal information from customers, site visitors, and other targets
• Must determine the process and methods by which the PII data are collected from customers
• Must determine the specific type of PII data to be collected
• Must ensure all changes and modifications of PII data are effectively done
• Must determine where and how to use the PII data and for a specified purpose
• Must ensure effective storage of all PII data in-house and when to share with third parties
• Must determine the retention period for all PII data collected

• Minimum of 3 but not more than 5 years experience
• BSC in Accounting with a minimum of 2.1 GPA
• ICAN or ACCA Certified Accountant.
• Proficient with Google Workspace tools.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite.
• Sound knowledge of International Financial Accounting Standards (IFRS) and its application.
• Solid understanding of risk and control concepts
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Good attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Willingness to learn.
• Inquisitiveness.
• Good analytical skills.
• A good team player.

ESSENTIAL COMPETENCIES AND ATTRIBUTES

• Excellence driven.
• Smart
• Humble
• Strong ownership mindset. 
• Ability to lead self and others. 
• Impeccable integrity. 
• Critical thinking and problem-solving capabilities. 
• Dynamic and active. 
• Sound independent judgment. 
• Possess a can-do mindset.