First World Communities Group is a leading real estate organisation, focused on providing affordable housing for low and medium income households across Nigeria and West Africa, in attractive and safe communities, as a contribution to wealth creation to wealth creation and socio-economic development. In addition to its coordination unit, the group has Project Services, Construction and Facility Management companies.
Our development pipeline has over 12,000 residential and commercial properties scheduled for delivery in the next 5 years. To achieve this commitment, the Company requires hard working hands-on professionals to fill these positions:
Job Title: Management Accountant
Overall Role Purpose:
- Coordinating the annual budget process;
- Financial analysis & preparing decision support reports for management;
- Fixed assets, inventory & payroll management
Principal Accountabilities:
- Coordinates the annual budget process in liaison with departmental heads & business unit leaders to produce their annual budgets;
- Actively participates in the budget review process and consolidates the approved budgets for inclusion in the Group’s Annual Operating Plan;
- Analyses the monthly finance results, producing timely management reports which compare actual results against the budget & prior year results, highlighting reasons for material variances and unusual trends;
- Prepares periodic rolling forecasts, based on underlying financial trends, as an early warning tool and an aid for decision making;
- Reviews revenue yield, product & operating costs, with a view to maximizing profits;
- Provides financial input for investment proposals by heads of business units and supports them in preparing formal business case analyses (BCAs) for consideration by the Board;
- Maintains control over the ordering, delivery, custody, issuance and valuation of the Group’s investment in construction materials and building products;
- Monitors and reports on the cost of construction work in progress in liaison with colleagues in the project services unit and external consultants;
- Oversees the preparation and maintenance of the fixed assets register and the reconciliation of the monthly depreciation charge in the profit & loss account;
- Operates an effective and efficient payroll system
- Supervises trains, develops, motivates & manages an adequate team of staff members to enhance the overall effectiveness of the finance department.
Skills & Competencies:
- The incumbent must be naturally inquisitive and highly analytical with a strong business orientation.
- Quick on the uptake, capable of identifying business challenges and preferring solutions based on intuition and logical deduction
- A self-starter, comfortable with advanced computer spread sheets and financial modelling, able to work to tight deadlines.
- Personable with good oral & written communication skills
Education & Competences:
- First Degree/HND in finance, accounting, business administration or any of the social sciences;
- Professional accounting qualification, ACCA or ACA preferred;
- 4 years relevant work experience preferred, of which 2 must be post professional qualification;
- Experience within a top-flight professional accounting practice will be an added advantage.
Method of Application
Further information about the above advertised positions is available on www.firstworld-communities.com/careers.htm
Interested applicants should complete bio-data form on- line, prior to submitting written applications with detailed CV in Microsoft Word format to careers@firstworld-communities.com and copied to the following address: fwc.humanresources@gmail.com
Application Deadline for all application is 31st August 2011.
