Staff Accountant
314, Aba Rd, Portharcourt, Nigeria
• Produced, interpreted, presented and reconciled financial statements.• Prepared activity reports and financial forecast: Sales, cost of sales, profitability, cash flow etc• Researched ways to improve profitability, analysing market for business opportunities• Managed and reconciled project cost, reports, revenue recognition, margin/profit analysis, and project reconciliation. • Supervised and assigned duties to the Cashier ensuring accurate posting of receipt, imprest system, lodgement into the bank• Coordinated and resolved various issues with bank such as cleared check differences, bank fee anomalies, targeted balance calculations and enhancements to online services• Supervised the activities of Accounts payable officer, keeping check to ensure that all reconciliation to vendors accounts are done, Invoiced are paid when due etc• Assisted month end close of the general ledger to the group ledger• Monitoring fixed cost vis a vis turnover and budget• Prepared monthly general expense packages as part of the month end close• Prepared departmental annual cost budgets and forecasts in cost, production and revenue• Planned, studied and collected data to determined cost of business activity such as raw material purchased, spare part, inventory and labour• Analysed changes in raw materials, labour to determine effects on cost• Analysed actual manufacturing costs and preparing periodic reports, comparing standard costs to actual production costs• Analysed cost information for use in controlling expenditures• Making estimates of new and proposed product costs• Conducted physical inventories and monitors cycle count programme • Supervised and assigned duties to the Cashier ensuring • Performed monthly variance analysis and presented the results to the executive staff• Reconciles finished goods inventories• Reconciles spare parts inventories • Prepared monthly accruals; journal entries including posting the entries