Project Accountant Job opening at IITA

 

The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) is a not-for-profit institution that generates agricultural innovations to meet Africa’s most pressing challenges of hunger, malnutrition, poverty, and natural resource degradation. They work with various partners across sub-Saharan Africa, to improve livelihoods, enhance food and nutrition security, increase employment, and preserve natural resource integrity. They are a bonafide member of CGIAR, a global agriculture research partnership for a food secure future.

IITA is actively recruiting for the position below.

 

Role Title: Project Accountant

Location: Ibadan, Oyo State.

Role Responsibilities:

 

• Ensure setting up of budgets, budgetary control and monitoring.
• Ensure account receivable setup, update, invoice generation, fund capturing and acknowledgement.
• Monitor the periodic preparation, analysis and coordination of Financial Reports to donors.
• Monitor setting up of projects accounts cost centers and files
• Responsible for the provision administrative support to Project Accounts Unit.
• Supervision of project receivables and donor funds to center accounts.
• Ensure strict and complete compliance with contractual requirements of donors, e.g. reporting due dates.
• Provision of excellent supervisory role to subordinates within Finance Directorate.
• Work accordingly with Project Development and Administrative Unit, Project Coordinators and Scientists in ensuring absolute compliance on project-related issues with IITA policies.
• Manage queries from Project Investigators and donors on regular basis.
• Carryout the preparation of monthly and yearly Management report on audit.
• Carryout monthly reconciliation of impress accounts to general ledger.

 

Required Qualifications:

 

• MSc/MBA in Accounting or any equivalent discipline.
• ACA/ACCA certification or qualification.
• Minimum of ten (10) years’ experience working in a similar position.
• Excellent analytical mindset.
• Proficiency with computer application especially Oracle Apps.

 

Application Deadline:

September 23^rd, 2020.

 

Application Guidelines:

To apply, click on the link below.

 https://bit.ly/3iA5aA3