GE Recruitment of a Reporting Accountant

GE works on things that matter. The best people and the best technologies taking on the toughest challenges. Finding solutions in energy, health, home, transportation and finance. At GE, we put our ideas to work, taking them off the paper, out of the lab and into the world. Engineers, scientists, teachers, leaders and doers. All sharing a belief that things can be made to work better. We are at work to build, cure, power and move the world. We are at work making the world work better.

We recruiting to fill the vacant position

Position Title: Reporting Accountant

Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job Number: 1845155

Essential Responsibilities:

• Full responsibility for the timely preparation and submission of monthly/quarterly management reports to HQ and the business units
• Full responsibility for analyzing Business financials on a monthly basis and reporting on variances
• Leading month-end/quarter-end closing, communicating the closing calendar and ensuring strict adherence to agreed timelines
• Reviewing General Ledger entries to ensure completeness and accuracy of Business financials
• Reviewing account reconciliations in line with the Corporate criteria for quality and driving quick resolution of any identified defects or failures
• Support internal and external financial and tax audit and examination processes, including assisting with the preparation of audited financial statements, footnotes and supplemental information
• Primary contact for the Businesses, responding timely and accurately to queries/clarifications raised

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or other business related field and 3 - 5 years progressive accounting or finance experience
• Professional accounting qualification (e.g. CA, CPA, ACCA, ACA)
• Demonstrated proficiency in U.S. GAAP, local GAAP, IFRS and authoritative accounting literature (i.e. FASB pronouncements)

Additional Eligibility Qualifications:
Desired Characteristics:
Experience working in a global business environment with sound understanding of global process and transactional flows Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to communicate complex business issues in a clear/concise manner Strong analytical skills: able to clearly link financial results to operational performance drivers, generate alternatives and drive positive change Clear thinking/problem solving: successfully led projects/process improvements within operations/finance functions; able to quickly grasp new ideas Adaptable/flexible: being open to change in response to new information, different or unexpected circumstances, and/or to work in ambiguous situations Integrity: accepting and adhering to high moral, ethical, and personal values in decisions, communications, actions and when dealing with others

Application Closing Date
2nd October, 2013

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should
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