Graduate Trainee at Lagos Bus Services Limited

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Preparing reports, budgets, commentaries and financial statements
• Assisting with financial administration and internal controls
• Stay up to date with technological advances and accounting software to be used for financial purposes
• Understand and adhere to financial regulations and legislation.
• Provide insightful information and expectations to senior executives to aid in long-term and short-term decision making
• Seek out methods for minimising financial risk to the company
• Research and analyse financial reports and market trends
• Assisting with Monitoring of the day-to-day financial operations within the company, such as payroll, invoicing, and other transactions
• The key performance indicators of a cost management accountant are required to measure and monitor in terms of the following:
• Quality, yield and lead times of the operational processes.
• Adherence to the operations plan.
• Unplanned maintenance.
• Accuracy, speed and efficiency of transactional processing and reporting.
• Internal customer service delivery and satisfaction.
• Implementation of change through projects and initiatives, which are measured in terms of budget, time and scope.
• Forecast accuracy.
• Input, testing, implementation and adoption of better IT solutions.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree / Higher National Diploma in Accountancy.
• Membership of relevant professional body (ICAN)

Skills & Attitude:

• Good oral and written communication skills
• The ability to work as part of a team
• Excellent analytical and numerical abilities
• Sound business knowledge
• Accuracy and an eye for detail.
• Time Management
• Credibility
• Initiative
• Interpersonal skills
• Problem solving skills
• Organizational skills
• Interpersonal Skills.