Auditor at a Real Estate Company – Smart Partners Consulting Limited Full Time

Job Title: Auditor

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• Our client is in urgent need of an Auditor who will be responsible for keeping the employer accountable regarding internal company procedures and industry rules. The Auditor’s duties include studying accounting records, preparing compliance reports and supervising company workflows.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate financial documents for accuracy and compliance with federal regulations
• Identify the financial risk of the organization and offer recommendations to reduce risk.
• Identify accounting and financial record-keeping processes that can be improved
• Determine ways to cut costs and improve profitability
• Assess the efficiency and productivity of internal staff and make recommendations for improvement
• Present findings to upper management in the form of reports and presentations
• To ensure good management of scarce resources
• To ensure that all accounts books are prepared in accordance with accounting principles and standards
• To ensure sound and efficient control systems.
• Liaising with the Audit Committee on internal/systems audits.
• Reports likely risks inherent in such weaknesses to the systems
• Reports lose of all kinds to the management
• Periodic checking of aged debtors’ analyses report with debtors control accounts to ensure they reconciled
• Periodic checking of aged creditors analyses report with creditors control accounts to ensure they reconciled
• Cross-checking to ensure that sales (Customers) invoices in General Ledgers reconciled with products invoices postings in sales department always
• Cross-checking and ensuring that all purchases are duly posted into the appropriate accounts by Accounts dept.
• Cross-checking and ensuring that all assets are properly entered into the assets register by carrying out physical identifications of all assets with computer printouts periodically; monthly reconciliation of assets.
• Periodic checking of the prepayment and accrualschedules in the General Ledgers
• Quarterly and Year-end stock takings with the store personnel
• Checks periodically all the postings in the General Ledges to ensure accuracy in postings and proper classifications in view of accounting principles
• Verification of credit sales andall purchases with material value in the General Ledgers regularly
• Assists in handling some accounting jobs when the need arises.
• Works hand-in-hand with the external auditors during the annual audit of financial year-end.
• Works with the Audit Committee on systems audit issues when the need arises
• es & cash withdrawals from banks etc. are guided by the company’s procedures/policies.
• Carries out internal audits to identify any weaknesses or loopholes in the systems and make reports as well as recommend corrective measures to the management
• Monitoring all credit sales to ensure compliance with company’s policies on credit facilities
• Monitoring staff indebtedness to the company to ascertain compliance in repayments.
• Monitoring cash advances to staff and makes calls for their retirements
• Any other duties assigned.

Requirements

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or any related Social Science Courses.
• Minimum of 1 year of relevant experience on the job
• Necessary certificates and professional qualifications and master Degrees shall be added advantage
• Strong communication skills to work with Accountants and other co-workers
• Excellent attention to detail to review large amounts of data and numbers
• Exceptional mathematical skills to verify entries
• Good critical-thinking skills to gather all of the available data and make informed decisions
• Excellent research skills to find all related information needed
• Proficiency in accounting software and spreadsheets

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Note: Only qualified candidates will be contacted.